La Quinta Inns & Suites is pragmatic about digital media, using it largely as a DR vehicle to drive bookings while spending on broadcast for reach and branding. Mobile is no different. A newish mobile app and website, created by Definition 6, lets guests book a room in four screens on a smartphone. The strategy […]
Facebook has certified DoubleClick for ad impression tracking, ending an unofficial policy against Google technologies on its platform. Sources tell AdExchanger Facebook’s decision went into effect in the last two weeks. It’s undoubtedly good news for DoubleClick and its customers, who will now be able to track and attribute Facebook campaign impressions alongside their other […]
Socially persistent Google will buy Wildfire Interactive for approximately $25o million. The deal comes just a few months after Google reportedly sniffed around Wildfire competitor Buddy Media, before Buddy sold to Salesforce. (Read Google’s blog post) The deal hasn’t closed but sources tell AdExchanger that Google doesn’t expect the need for regulatory review and hopes to finalize things […]
Online measurement company comScore is taking the patent battle to three smaller analytics companies focused on ad effectiveness solutions: DoubleVerify, AdSafe Media and Moat. The new lawsuits use what appears to be at least four of the same patents comScore acquired rights to when it was sued by, and settled with, measurement giant Nielsen in 2011 […]
There’s been a lot of talk about about how a Facebook Exchange or a Facebook ad network will benefit buy-side interests looking for reach, frequency and better performance. But, what about publishers other than Facebook? – where will they stand as Facebook rolls out these new ad strategies? AdExchanger reached out to a selection of […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joanna O’Connell is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Is Facebook finally getting over itself? Or, rather, is Facebook actually starting to realize that its place in the advertising ecosystem is just that – […]
Free text and calling app Pinger is the biggest mobile app you’ve never heard of. In December 2011, ComScore rated it third in daily usage minutes among iOS apps, ahead of Facebook and Twitter, and fifth in device installs. It’s backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has a knack for picking winners with […]
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are still riding above the fray. For all the talk about Facebook’s new Wall Street masters, about its inevitable kowtowing to advertisers, about its bummer of an IPO and its withering stock price, the overall impression made by its first earnings call (story) was of a company largely indifferent to […]
Pete Sheinbaum is no stranger to the power of “the link.” When he led the popular newsletter Daily Candy (acquired by Comcast in 2008) and was looking to scale users and revenue beyond the email inbox, the rich media possibilities of Daily Candy’s website beckoned with demanding advertisers in pursuit. He says that his latest […]
“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. It is inevitable that we will move into a post ad-tech era. Not to say that ad buying technologies will go away, but that they […]
CPX Interactive was founded and long run as a traditional ad network business, but it wants to be known for multi-channel advertising — a la ValueClick. So it’s breaking out its channel offerings into branded divisions, starting with mobile and affiliate ads. Its new mobile network, Moversa, is three months old but already contributes 5% […]
As Facebook hosts its first quarterly earnings call tomorrow after market close, investors will be looking at a range of health indicators. Among them are user engagement (daily, monthly), monetization of mobile, and ad pricing. The bar is lower than might have been expected pre-IPO, with some analysts forecasting decelerated growth in Q2 — owing partly […]
“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 Sacha Xavier, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. The mobile media space is as exciting as it is daunting. As a digital media director, it seems there are more […]
“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 Mark Hughes, CEO of C3 Metrics. It was a Michael Lewis book before it was a Sandra Bullock movie. Published in 2006, “The Blind Side” stated very elegantly what most football […]
Dan Salmon is an equity research analyst at BMO Capital Markets and covers advertising and marketing services. Salmon recently discussed with AdExchanger.com the latest industry events as well as an update to his ongoing analysis of the marketing ecosystem titled, “The Race For The Digital Marketing Hub: Version 2.0.” Download it (PDF). AdExchanger: In this […]
Upcast Social is a London-based marketing firm specializing in managing Facebook campaigns. It was one of the early companies to be certified as a preferred marketing developer (PMD) for the Facebook Ads API. AdExchanger spoke with CEO Jim Brigden and Client Services Director Josh Wallin. AdExchanger: What’s the origin story for Upcast Social? JB: Upcast […]
The IDG TechNetwork is pulling the curtain off its new data management platform (DMP) today. The network oversees roughly 500 sites, including the tech and information publisher IDG’s own web extensions such as PC World, Macworld and CIO magazines. Peter Longo has been CEO of the IDG TechNetwork for four years and has held executive posts […]
Retargeting specialist AdRoll began its life in 2007 as an ordinary ad network, looking to solve the problems of display advertising that still plague marketers and publishers. The company, which grew out of work with semantic advertising and a history of thinking deeply about artificial intelligence on the part of its founders, CEO Aaron Bell […]
Having originally conceived the idea while at vertical ad network Adify (which he sold to Cox in 2008 for a healthy $300 million), CEO Russ Fradin has not lost any steam in his own personal startup engine – let alone his passion for his latest startup, Dynamic Signal. Fradin explains that brand clients want to […]
