Cox Digital Solutions, which houses the white label vertical ad network and ad serving business formerly known as Adify, will no longer offer platform services to outside media companies, the company has told clients. In a letter sent last month to customers, obtained by AdExchanger, Andy Levi director, Publisher Operations at CDS, as part of […]
If there’s anyone still debating the role of data in ad creative, as opposed to media buying, they don’t work at Draftfcb. Last week, the Interpublic Group shop unveiled an integrated campaign on behalf of Amtrak’s express eastern seaboard rail service, Acela, that aimed to get business travelers to reconsider the value of air travel. […]
AdExchanger is pleased to announced new panelists have been added to our April 8 Programmatic I/O conference taking place at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel. Nicolas Franchet, Head of E-Commerce, Global Vertical Marketing at Facebook, and Gautam Thakar, GM, eBay Advertising, will join our “E-commerce and Targeting The Shopper” panel. One of several conference themes, marketers are increasingly […]
Restaurant chain Moe’s Southwest Grill recently hired marketing agency Engauge as its media agency of record, handling a new national television campaign and the company’s foray into programmatic buying. “Moe’s is about 12 years old and we’ve just now gotten to the point where we’re collecting marketing dollars at the national level, rather than just […]
Comparison shopping service Shopzilla has unveiled a business unit called Aisle A that will focus on display ad sales and retargeting. Shopzilla, which has been around since the practical dawn of the consumer internet in 1996, says it now has the capabilities to better leverage purchase intent data aroundwide range of retail products to create a […]
What do you do if you have real-time bidding software that’s non-core to your business, but could still be an asset to young ad companies faced with building their own bidders from scratch? You take it open source. That’s what Montreal-based Datacratic has done with the release of a new RTBkit framework, available at RTBkit.org. […]
With over 260 companies in its Preferred Marketing Developer program, Facebook has its hands full managing partners. Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to simplify the program while also extracting more revenue from it, Facebook announced significant changes to how it handles badge requests. (AdExchanger story) The main things to know: (a) New partners will be […]
Despite the benefits of RTB, ads purchased through direct sales still have the highest quality when it comes to viewability and potential risks, according to data from Integral Ad Science. In its 2012 Semiannual Review for Q3 and Q4 2012, Integral, previously known as AdSafe, showcased data related to its new TRAQ Score, a quality […]
Has OpenX’s open source ad server been hacked to death? After a serious attack on Saturday, OpenX abruptly pulled the plug on the OnRamp product yesterday, leaving customers scrambling to find new ad servers and reconstruct insertion orders. OpenX announced the shutdown this morning in a retroactive forum post, and offered little comfort to existing […]
I am excited to announce that AdExchanger will produce two conferences in 2013 called Programmatic I/O. The events will be held on April 8 in San Francisco and on September 16 in New York City. Programmatic I/O is designed to educate Marketers about the New Normal for Digital Marketing Input/Output. For a hint of the […]
Yesterday we covered a Federal Trade Commission settlement with Epic Media Group over allegations of “history sniffing,” and pointed out that the company had many things in common with a new ad company called Kinetic Social. Those similarities include employees, executives, and website copy. Today Kinetic reached out to AdExchanger to address its supposed connection […]
Forecasts for real-time bidding are rising for the next several years, after a strong showing in 2012, including participation from major national brands and premium publishers. Market intelligence firm IDC said in October that worldwide RTB-based spending was $1.4 billion in 2011 and forecasted it will rise to $13.9 billion by 2016, for a compound […]
It’s a common refrain that last click attribution is broken, but what should replace it has yet to be resolved. Algorithmic attribution modeling is perhaps the leading candidate, and vendors such as Visual IQ, Convertro, and Adometry are competing to provide solutions in this area. But these attribution specialists still struggle to make fractional attribution […]
Demand side platform MediaMath has scooped up Tap.Me and its roughly 11 employees for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings MediaMath a far more robust mobile and video ad serving capability than it had previously, according to CEO Joe Zawadzki. Tap.Me was previously focused on in-game ads (AdExchanger 2011 Q&A). But as sometimes happens in […]
Michael Ho thinks offline sales goals can be driven online. That’s why his company, Bering Media, which he founded in 2008, is working with Internet service providers to create what Ho believes is an accurate, scalable way to target consumers online, based on geography, CRM data, and custom offline data models. “We didn’t want to […]
“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 by Sid Shah, Director of Business Analytics for Advertising Solutions, Adobe. A combination of established trends and new technology innovations will cause 2013 to be an eventful year for digital marketing. Here […]
Bubbling around and through the advertising ecosystem is what some have called “Big Data.” Is it demo data? Location data? Or data from that little mouseover you just did with the graphic appended to this post? – It seems like it’s any piece of data we can think of, no? Time for some ecosystem input! […]
Mobile advertising is on the rise and, looking at reports from the third quarter 2012, the use of mobile real-time bidding by buyers and publishers is also growing. Market intelligence firm IDC predicts that mobile advertising will reach $8 billion globally in 2012, jumping to $14.2 billion by 2014. Looking just at the U.S., market […]
“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 the second installment in a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Part I is here). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions […]
“How do we deliver analytics in a way that is inexpensive – and not a headache?” That is the high-level proposition behind BitYota according to Dev Patel who co-founded the company with fellow, former Yahoos Harmeek Bedi, Soren Riise and Poulomi Damany. And last week, he and his company took the wraps off of their solution […]
“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 part one of a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Read part 2). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions Implementation […]
Among the many concerns ad sellers and ad agency staffers harbor about the rise of automated audience buying is that all these advancements will ultimately put people out of a job. The ethos of doing “more with less” is a general worry that happens anytime an industry finds itself in the throes of technological change. […]
It’s been three years since Adobe embarked on the digital acquisition spree that would bring it a major analytics platform (Omniture), a DMP (Demdex) and a media buying platform (Efficient Frontier). How to measure its success to date? Financial results tell one story. In Q3 2012 the digital marketing suite delivered 40% growth in revenue, […]
When it comes to e-commerce, there’s Amazon and then there’s everybody else. Whether a retailer specializes in flash sales or in subscription-based, curated “boxes of merchandise,” all companies in the space are defining themselves against what Amazon has achieved and what it, as general go-to for everything from books to music to household items, can […]
Any media agency will tell you it’s innovating hard around data in campaign planning and reporting. But what does that mean exactly? For Universal McCann, the global media arm of McCann Worldgroup, today’s challenge in analytics isn’t methodological. It’s all in the follow through – creating standardized measurement approaches and then getting insights into the […]
“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 Kevin Haley, Chief Scientist at Videology. Verification is good. Everyone wants to know that what they bought is what they got. With regard to online video, for years the […]
Traditional branding exercises often focus on questions that can seem a little silly. What color is your brand? What shape? Percolate founder Noah Brier says his company sprang in part from the realization that “What does your brand consume?” also needs to be part of that equation. The company, which has been compared to Buddy […]
Facebook’s menu of ad types is growing longer all the time. And as the company continually tests new formats, it’s getting harder to keep track of all of them. Below is AdExchanger’s attempt to provide a snapshot of all relevant and current paid media products the company has on offer, along with a few that […]
Female-leaning lifestyle content network Glam Media is the latest publisher to adopt the private exchange model, as more companies look to buttress and protect their guaranteed, direct sales with the increasing demands for more real-time offerings for advertisers. Rubicon Project will power the exchange for GlamAdapt, the publisher’s ad serving unit. The move comes at […]
“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 Jessica Sanfilippo, group media director at 360i. Below the fold, partial ad loads, and other related (and unwanted) occurrences on the island of misfit banners are the digital equivalents […]
