Hey, readers! This is James Hercher, AdExchanger’s senior editor and your escort into the world of commerce media. This week, we examine an interesting DTC marketing trend whereby online brand building and ecommerce advertising experts are testing their mettle by launching and operating brands of their own. They’re eating their own dog food, so to […]
With a mostly silent response to marketer outrage after an outage, Meta has lost the pulse of its customer base. Plus: the tricky yet worthwhile challenge of targeted health care marketing.
When online grocery subscription service Misfits Market was founded in 2018, it took a page right out of the DTC advertiser’s playbook, says Holly Eagleson, VP of marketing. But since the release of Apple’s ATT, Misfits has been embracing new channels.
Catalina Crunch started off in 2017 as a purely direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand advertising ketogenic (“keto”) snack products on search and social, including Facebook and Instagram. But, as product demand and Facebook CPMs concurrently rose, a DTC-only biz wasn’t enough to scale the business.
DTC subscriptions may seem like one of the first candidates to get cut from the monthly bill as consumers become more cost conscious during the pandemic. It’s hard to justify having the latest fashions sent directly to your door now that the conference room table is the kitchen table. And do you really need that […]
Ever fall down the YouTube rabbit hole or mindlessly scroll through the news feed and then suddenly wake up 30 minutes later with no idea where the time went? Of course you have – and so has Tim Armstrong, former CEO of Oath (now Verizon Media) and AOL. The current business model of the internet is […]
Facebook seems to exist within two alternate realities: The one in which it’s battered almost daily by a relentlessly negative news cycle, and the one in which advertisers, particularly performance marketers, never seem to put away their checkbooks. That second reality could be under threat. Facebook has been sounding the warning on privacy-related “ad targeting […]
Why should celebrities lend their influence to other brands when they can spin up their own? But for entertainers to launch their own direct-to-consumer products, they need help to understand their social fanbases and turn them into paying customers. For instance, when Kate Walsh – star of “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff “Private Practice” – relaunched her […]
