“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 […]
The industry has made striking advanced in tracking the value and attributes of biddable online ad inventory, but the road ahead is long. That much was clear at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Ad Operations summit in New York. In a discussion of inventory packaging and pricing, Neal Richter, chief scientist at Rubicon Project, and Art Schram, VP of Glam […]
Western Union describes itself as a financial services provider for the “underbanked,” a group it pegs at approximately 25% of the U.S. population. As with all financial companies it must be very careful with its customer data and how it uses that data to acquire customers and market new services. That caution extends to data-driven […]
“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 Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. I’ve been designing, prototyping and deploying new ad formats in digital advertising for more than 15 years. I started one of the first rich […]
“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 Dave Zinman, CEO of Infolinks. The economics of online advertising are at best confusing and at worst completely backwards. We’ve got a zillion systems to target ads and auction […]
Among the questions mobile marketers are grappling with is whether the channel is an extension of the PC-web or something entirely distinct. Is it better to emphasize some form of behavioral targeting or contextual? Is focusing on location the best way to target mobile users? While the industry sorts through those issues, mobile ad startup […]
There is a common view that a big chunk of real time bidding activity consists of advertisers competing with themselves to win impression auctions. Not so, according to a new RTB report based on data gathered through Casale Media‘s sell-side Index Platform. “There are a lot of shared brands, and also a lot of retargeting,” […]
“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 Michael Oiknine, CEO of Apsalar. Every iPhone comes with an identification number — like a serial number – that’s used for connecting data to a specific handset. Until recently, the […]
Over the past two years, Ziff Davis has transformed itself from a digital-only tech publisher primarily known for PCMag.com to a broader content/digital marketing play by adding audience ad targeting, e-commerce and enterprise IT functions. Now, after roughly five acquisitions since CEO Vivek Shah took over the media property with investment assistance from Great Hill Partners, […]
Marketer integration is among the grand challenges facing the Data Management Platform space, according to a new white paper produced by Winterberry Group in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (download). Consider the top three “major hurdles” identified by the report’s 160 or so respondents: (1) “Internal Process & Marketing Ops Challenges,” (2) “No Clear […]
Over the past few months, “collaborative” publisher Wikia has been working with data management platform Krux Digital on streamlining and segmenting the company’s audience. The company claims the combined use of its first party data and third party data have led to 93 percent lift in eCPMs compared to what it was able to charge […]
The year of mobile has come and gone — though we may never know which year it was exactly. So what comes next? Why the year of mobile integration of course. When we asked three senior agency executives what their top 2013 planning issue is (not mentioning mobile), all three came back with variations on […]
Facebook’s Exchange is in full swing outside the U.S. Speaking at the AppNexus Summit in New York this week, Facebook VP global partnerships Blake Chandlee noted FBX buyers can now access audiences in the Asia-Pacific region and in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A spokesperson later confirmed the expansion and said Facebook is actively […]
“In the Netherlands we have a horrible privacy law. It requires us to ask for explicit consent before we can collect data or use cookies. That’s partly our fault. I think the US ad industry should really take a stand and inform both politicians and consumers.” -Kim Van Der Zande, Chief Strategy Officer of FlxOne, […]
AppNexus can be a tough company to draw a bead on. First, it’s not public and so isn’t required to disclose revenues, profits, or cash on hand. Second, it functions as a marketplace intermediary, sitting between media buyer and seller, and sometimes between other intermediaries. As such it’s not directly measured by the likes of […]
Nate Silver’s perfect forecast of the electoral map outcome in yesterday’s presidential election has created a stir in digital marketing circles almost as much as it has in political and publishing ones — and it’s easy to see why. There’s a comfortable analogy here for the media ecosystem. Just as Silver — via the New York Times’ […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. There has been much talk lately about the demise of the banner as an effective communications tool. These conversations can be self-centered, pointless, naïve, or all […]
“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 Brian Kaminski, President US of iProspect. In the battle for digital advertising dollars, Google is the established leader and Facebook is the scrappy newcomer. While Google offers an expansive […]
Of the presidential contenders, President Obama’s reelection campaign has adopted the more broad-based display ad strategy in the campaign’s final two months. In analysis shared with AdExchanger, analytics firm Moat finds Obama’s campaign placed 10x the volume of display ads that Romney’s did, an estimate that is consistent with FEC data on Obama’s digital ad […]
When niche retail e-commerce gained steam about three years ago, deals, the focus was on flash sales and discounts on upscale items for fashion and restaurants. But the ground has slowly shifted as local deals site Groupon filed its IPO and a slew of like-minded sites started to crowd the space. Two years ago, two […]
Ad exchanges have been flooded with weather-adjacent display ad inventory this week as people sought out fresh information on Superstorm Sandy — first its onslaught and later its aftermath. But just how big was this weather event from an ad volume standpoint? Pretty huge, according to data provided to AdExchanger by Media6degrees and presented in the […]
ValueClick’s Q3 results were largely positive, as the company demonstrated in its earnings release and subsequent investors call on Thursday. But it just goes to show, that managing expectations is more than half the game when it comes to quarterly results. In part, the results were impacted by the exclusion of revenues from Search123, which […]
The two leading presidential campaigns are exposing website visitor data to third parties via URL and page title information, according to Jonathan Mayer, a privacy advocate and Stanford graduate student. Mayer examined the information made available on the two candidates’ campaign websites, and found “both leak.” What’s more, he says the information visible to third parties […]
R/GA’s decision to launch a media division one year ago was an unusual step for an agency deeply associated with its creative product. The firm has always talked a good game about data, for instance using personal health data to support the award winning Nike+ and Fuel Band products. But that’s a far cry […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Nokia Adds Exchange In an effort to bring more developers to its platform, Nokia has started an ad exchange to pay them. GigaOm’s Ryan Kim reports, “Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX), which is built off of Inneractive’s technology, will allow developers to access 120 ad […]
The burning issues affecting digital advertising these days can be boiled down to handful of recurring themes: ad effectiveness and verification; “Do Not Track” and relevance; and whether social media extends a publisher’s content distribution — or merely fragments it. Given that video is a highly engaging form of media and easily trackable (via completion […]
Having built one of the early ad servers at Matchlogic, TruEffect CEO Ron Hill and his core team have deep experience in ad tech. Among the fruits of those ad serving days were patents that Hill says have become the backbone of his company’s first-party advertising technology today. To be clear, TruEffect isn’t a young […]
Speak the name iProspect and what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If you were around during the first wave of online marketing, the answer is certainly “search.” The agency was one of the first independent search marketing agencies to go global with offices in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere before its 2004 acquisition by […]
Publishers are under pressure to embrace programmatic buying, but Vox Media is resisting the call. The company publishes sports blog network SB Nation, tech news provider The Verge, and video gaming info site Polygon, which made its debut this week. The introduction of Polygon represents what Vox CEO Jim Bankoff and sales director Joe Purzycki call a […]
“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 Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. In 2007 I wrote a paper that analyzed the lack of investment from 2001 to 2006 in the basic infrastructure of ad technology. The […]
