You know the Twitter earnings narrative by now. Enthusiasm around strong revenue from advertising products is dampened by concerns over the growth rate of monthly active users (MAUs). Such was the case with the company’s Q4 Thursday, in which Twitter’s ad revenue doubled from the previous year to $432 million, beating Wall Street estimates. Mobile […]
For Acxiom’s 2015 Q3 earnings, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Or, in the words of CEO Scott Howe, “Spectacular growth in AOS and LiveRamp has been mirrored by declines in our core business.” Read the press release. Howe, speaking during the company’s earnings call Wednesday, was referring to the data connectivity […]
When you put five magazine magnates in a room and ask them about the future of print, things get a little tense. “Fear is not a strategy,” said Condé Nast President Robert Sauerberg, asked if he was afraid of print going away. “I’m not afraid of anything. I have the greatest brand in the world.” […]
At Industry Preview 2015, a group of analytics pros discussed what attribution looks like in 2015 in this panel led by Gartner’s Martin Kihn. Participants included: Anush Prabhu, Chief Channel Planning & Investment Officer, Deutsch NY Jon Vein Co-founder & CEO, MarketShare Michael Wexler, Director, Digital Insights and Marketing Effectiveness, Citi Sunny Youn, Director, Digital Media Analytics, Epsilon Check […]
Twitter is finally giving its promoted tweets wings to fly beyond Twitter’s own walls. In a blog post Tuesday, Ameet Ranadive, Twitter’s senior director of product, said that advertisers will be able to syndicate promoted tweet campaigns running on Twitter to non-Twitter properties using the same creative and audience targeting parameters. Twitter didn’t get specific on how the […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Like pretty much every other resident of my New Jersey town, I found myself in a home improvement store last Monday hoping to buy a couple of extra shovels […]
Verizon’s zombie cookie is now killable. In a development initially reported by The New York Times, the telco will allow its users to opt out from what the privacy community and a censorious media referred to as a “zombie cookie.” Previously, there was no way to opt out of Verizon’s persistent tracking mechanism. Users could opt out of having […]
If you happen to have $4.5 million burning a hole in your pocket, congratulations! You can afford a 30-second Super Bowl TV spot. Of course, for most big game advertisers it’s not enough to have 30 seconds of spectacular creative – you also have to support it via online and social channels. “Social is huge […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Peter Spande, chief revenue officer at Business Insider. Two years ago, Tim Armstrong co-opted the expression “barbell strategy” to describe AOL’s approach to balancing programmatic with direct sales. On one side of the barbell […]
If you’re looking for a deep dive into Google’s advertising business, you’re not getting it in an earnings call. Google reported FY 2014 revenue of $66 billion, up 19% YoY. Its Q4 revenue was $18.1 billion, all inclusive of traffic acquisition costs (TAC), which were $3.6 billion in Q4 (22% of ad revenue). Read the […]
