Dynamic Yield

Walmart is loving its ad business more every day; AI agents are coming to destroy everything; YouTube is trying to win over brands.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The Machines Last week, Meta quietly rolled out Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns, the black box ad engine it previously parceled out to some advertisers upon request. Advantage+, like Google’s Performance Max, puts creative, targeting and optimization controls fully in the hands of […]

Personalization platform Dynamic Yield has the distinction of having been acquired by not one but two large brands. McDonald’s bought the company in 2019 and then sold it to Mastercard late last year. “I guess this is just our destiny,” said Ori Bauer, Dynamic Yield’s CEO.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WWD-See It To Believe It Ad tech is on tenterhooks waiting for privacy-related news from Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Sandwiched between glitzy announcements about shiny new products and hardware, many expect a momentous mention as to whether Apple will start […]

Seeing “out of stock” while shopping online has become a familiar experience over the past two months, as products disappeared from online shelves. Online equine shop SmartPak wanted to make that unpleasant consumer experience better. Though only 2% of products it sold were affected by coronavirus-related supply chain issues, SmartPak knew it was losing sales […]

There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to bras. ThirdLove, an upstart challenger to established lingerie brands like Victoria’s Secret, is well aware of that fact, and its merchandise and marketing reflect the ethos of personalization. For instance, it offers half-sizes of its bras and an online custom fit finder. As ThirdLove becomes a more mature, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. That’s Settled Disney reached a deal with Amazon to carry Disney Plus on Fire TV sets. The two companies were at an impasse on a distribution deal because Amazon was demanding a substantial percentage of the media giant’s ad revenue, The Wall Street Journal […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Mukund Ramachandran, chief marketing officer at Dynamic Yield. Breakneck innovation in ecommerce has flipped the fundamental calculus of retail and punished brands unable to adapt. With once-dominant brands such as Payless […]

McDonald’s is starting to throw a few ideas on the grill after spending around $300 million to acquire personalization and decision logic tech startup Dynamic Yield in March. Dynamic Yield’s technology has been integrated into the drive-thru experience at roughly 700 McDonald’s restaurants in North America so far with plans to roll out more and […]

McDonald’s is buying an Israeli startup called Dynamic Yield that provides personalization software to brands and publishers – but this acquisition is about a lot more than tailoring menus based on the weather or serving up customized content. The deal, announced late Monday, is the first major acquisition McDonald’s has made in around 20 years, and […]

Dynamic Yield’s latest financing round is about one thing: growth. The company, which provides personalization software for ecommerce brands and publishers, raised $32 million in Series D cash on Wednesday, led by Viola Growth with participation from Union Tech Ventures. The round brings its total funding to $77 million since 2013. Dynamic Yield, whose clients […]

Dynamic Yield, a personalization platform for publishers and ecommerce brands such as Under Armour and Sephora, has raised $31 million in Series C financing, the company announced Thursday, bringing its funding total to $45 million. New investors Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and La Maison joined existing investors like Baidu to help the company expand its […]

Dynamic Yield, a yield optimization platform that has positioned itself as a quasi-ad server for content, has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Marker L.L.C. The Tel Aviv-based company has plans to grow its sales and operations teams in New York and London. Also joining the round as a distribution partner is […]