Yahoo has promoted Flurry executive Prashant Fuloria to head up all advertising products, the company confirmed on Friday. Fuloria’s title is SVP of Advertising Products, a job with oversight of Yahoo’s display, native, video and mobile ad products. He will report directly to Marissa Mayer and will oversee Scott Burke (who runs Yahoo Ad Manager Plus and Yahoo Gemini, and who moves […]
Last week at CES, Google had a lot to say about video and viewability. But the company is not a viewability virgin. It’s had a viewable impressions tool called Active View in the market for well over two years and will soon extend viewability reporting across YouTube, Google Display Network and DoubleClick for both desktop […]
While the majority of Alibaba’s revenue comes from advertising, most is direct-response or performance-based. Now the Chinese ecom juggernaut has its eye on brand dollars and is looking to digital ad company AdChina to get the ball rolling. Alibaba announced Wednesday that it’s claimed a majority stake in the company. Brands are part of AdChina’s DNA, […]
If four video ad tech acquisitions in the second half of 2014 weren’t enough evidence the space is hot hot hot, a barrage of new investments in video marketing startups should help drive that point home. Vidyard, a video marketing automation platform, just raised $18 million in Series B funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and […]
Data is a bit like a little black dress – it goes with everything. That’s especially true for women’s apparel brand Cache, which maintains an active ecommerce site and more than 230 brick-and-mortar stores in malls across the US. The data collection potential is huge. “In-store transactional data, online behavior, CRM data, offline purchases down […]
Most would argue that Yahoo’s de facto policy on the Right Media Exchange had been “do not resuscitate” for quite some time – but now RMX is officially off life support. Several sources tell AdExchanger that Yahoo is finally shutting down the exchange for all non-Yahoo owned and operated networks and publishers. Depending on your […]
If CES 2015 has a theme – at least, one relevant to marketers – it’s the way the Internet of Things (IoT) phenomena opens up new data channels. Whereas 2014’s event focused on the surface – Wow! A texting washing machine! – interest this year has revolved around the way these devices and appliances might one […]
Google’s big video reveal this week included a significant update to its premium video exchange, Google Partner Select. At the time of its launch last June, it was unclear how many participants initially were involved in Google’s effort to “bring together the best of brand advertising with the best of programmatic,” Neal Mohan, Google’s VP […]
Last year at CES, Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer presented on stage and revealed Yahoo Advertising as the umbrella housing the company’s ad products. At CES 2015, the company was less central. Simon Khalaf, CEO of Yahoo’s July acquisition of Flurry, gave a “state of mobile” keynote at the APPNATION conference, held at the same time […]
Hear that? It’s the sound of Google quietly mentioning that it plans to report on audibility for video ads at some point later this year. The audibility reference was buried as a footnote toward the end of a larger update on Google’s intention to roll out viewability reporting across all of its ad platforms, including […]
