Lauren Fisher, Principal Analyst at eMarketer, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO San Francisco conference, taking place April 29-30. Programmatic is still growing like a weed. In its October forecast, eMarketer predicted programmatic in digital display will grow from $47 billion in 2018 to $69 billion in 2020. This week on the podcast, eMarketer […]
Amazon is losing its iron grip on the increasingly competitive smart speaker market. Amazon’s share will dip below two-thirds for the first time this year to 66.6%, according to a forecast released Thursday by eMarketer. Google will retain 29.5% of the market while other players like Apple, Sonos and Facebook capture the remaining 8.3%. By […]
As marketer concerns about brand safety, transparency and data ownership continue to grow, so do their investments in programmatic guaranteed deals and private marketplaces (PMPs). By 2020, four out of every five programmatic dollars in the United States will flow to PMPs or guaranteed deals, according to eMarketer’s latest programmatic forecast released Friday. Brand safety […]
Snap Fizzle? This year, eMarketer estimates Snapchat will bring in $662.1 million in US ad revenue, a significant drop from the $1.03 billion it had projected last March. “We now expect that Snap will not break $1 billion in US ad revenue until 2020,” according to the revised figures. The downgrade is mainly due to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Devlin Jefferson, vice president of product at Operative. Bauer Xcel recently gave publishers advice about working directly with brands that take programmatic in-house. Note that the advice was written by Bauer’s new in-house programmatic […]
The almighty duopoly is losing share – but just a little bit. Google and Facebook will take a 56.8% share of US digital ad spend this year, down from 58.5% in 2017, according to a report published by eMarketer on Monday. The report also predicted the duopoly’s share of new digital ad dollars entering the […]
US cable TV networks are being strangled by cut cords. Research firm eMarketer lowered its US TV ad spend forecast for 2017 by $1 billion on Wednesday, citing “faster-than-expected growth in cord cutting” as the main contributor to the decline. US TV ad spend will still grow, the firm predicted – but by just 0.5% […]
The auto industry, ever competitive when it comes to traditional advertising, has brought that competition to programmatic buying. By leveraging data from car makers and dealers, brands are able to target and optimize their digital advertising through data-driven programmatic, and the competition is heating up in that space. According to data released by DSP and DMP Turn, price […]
Pinterest would not exist without brands. So said Eva Papoutsakis Smith, head of marketing communications and insights at Pinterest, at eMarketer’s State of Mobile breakfast on Wednesday. “Two-thirds of all pins come from brands or business websites,” Smith said. “If you removed all of that, there wouldn’t be a Pinterest.” That said, advertising on Pinterest […]
Consumer product goods (CPG) ad spending is in flux, as shown by the public comments of marketers like Kimberly-Clark and technology shifts such as the matching of offline data with online users to track the effectiveness of digital ads. The impact of this shift may be most visible in the area of digital video. In a […]
