Hulu is trying to change how the industry thinks about the TV ad experience. Over the past few years, Hulu has built interactive ad formats to fit consumer viewing behaviors. Earlier this year, for instance, Hulu introduced pause ads, which are served as overlays when a viewer pauses a show. Hulu has also maintained its […]
Google’s advertising chief Prabhakar Raghavan is reorganizing Google’s ads business – and adding new heads of measurement and privacy, according to multiple AdExchanger sources. As part of the reorg, he’s re-visualizing the company as four “concentric circles.” The innermost circle is Google’s owned-and-operated properties, including search and YouTube. The next circle outside of that is […]
Zeta Global continued its annexation of the demand-side platform (DSP) category on Wednesday, closing a deal with IgnitionOne to take over as its default DSP. The deal also includes the transfer of some employees and accounts, primarily attached to small and mid-size brands. Terms were not disclosed. “It’s an expensive proposition to run a DSP […]
Big tech can’t swing a cat these days without hitting an antitrust investigation. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are all facing varying degrees of heat from the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general across the nation, the House Judiciary Committee and competition authorities around the world. It’s hard to keep track […]
Online video ad spend will total $45 billion this year, up from $37 billion last year, and is expected to exceed $61 billion by 2021, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report published on Monday. Video advertising will also set the pace for global advertising, growing at 18% per year compared to 10% for […]
Jason Kelly is returning to his old stomping grounds, the flight travel industry, with the launch of an airline revenue management system (RMS) called Kambr, backed by a $4 million funding round. Kelly spent a decade managing online sales and revenue for airlines before getting into advertising technology in 2007 with Rapt, a digital monetization […]
The data-management platform (DMP) was sold as a tool with the power to turn publisher data into dollars. Vendors wooed publishers into signing multiyear contracts to use the technology. But the expectations didn’t match reality. As those contracts have expired, especially this year, many publishers aren’t renewing them. Just as marketers are moving from the […]
Since Lisa Utzschneider was hired as CEO of Integral Ad Science in January, almost the entire senior leadership team has turned over, a sign of swift change at the Vista Equity Partners-owned ad tech firm. The acquisition closed last July. Eighteen C-suite, SVP and VP-level executives have been hired since the acquisition and Utzschneider’s hiring, […]
Amid fears of a recession and wild swings in the stock market, advertising technology companies are enjoying a renaissance. Since the start of 2019, shares of the video ad tech company Telaria have more than doubled in value, from below $4 to $10.45 as of this week. Rubicon Project also started the year trading below […]
This article is sponsored by Comcast Technology Solutions. In the last few years, brands have wrestled with whether to prioritize broadcast or digital video channels in their advertising campaigns. The short answer? Emphasize both. A blended, multichannel strategy has been shown to increase ROI by as much as 35%, according to […]
IPG revealed a series of changes to its executive suite on Monday that brings media leadership to the top of the organization. Philippe Krakowsky, IPG’s chief strategy and talent officer and CEO of IPG Mediabrands, will assume the newly-created position of chief operating officer. He will retain his duties as chief strategy and talent officer […]
Mark Jablonowski will present “How To Capture 2020 Political Ad Budgets” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 15-16. Political campaigns spent $9.8 billion on advertising in the 2016 election cycle, up only $400 million from 2012. But political ads are expected to rocket up almost to $13 billion by November 2020, […]
This post is sponsored by Xandr. As the fragmentation of media viewing habits continues unabated, technology platforms must help evolve buying practices to reach interested consumers however they access content. In order to ensure buyers’ unique objectives are met across screens, customization and flexibility are paramount. This summer, AT&T’s Xandr unit introduced Xandr Invest, a […]
The world’s biggest technology companies have become some of the biggest ad spenders. Although other global brands continue to grow their ad spend at a moderate rate, they don’t benefit from the same incentives as internet brands, which earn as they spend. Legacy categories are hampered by an awkward dynamic: Risk losing digital consumers by […]
A successful article at HuffPost doesn’t have the most traffic – it has the most traffic from loyal readers with the highest engagement time. HuffPost overhauled its audience strategy last year to super-serve its most faithful readers and increase their numbers. The publisher is also diversifying its revenue through subscriptions. In April, it soft-launched a […]
Amazon is developing clean room data technology that could improve measurement and data for ad campaigns, according to sources familiar with the product. The idea is similar to other clean room offerings, like Google’s Ads Data Hub (ADH) or Facebook’s enterprise data-sharing service, which enable advertisers to measure campaigns or mingle their first-party data with […]
“Guys, it’s that time of the month … no not that time. It’s time to spin some more BS to Uber to keep the lights on.” That’s an excerpt from an email sent on Oct. 31, 2016 between two employees at Phunware, according to a lawsuit filed by Uber on July 12 in San Francisco. […]
Unlike competing browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome has to strengthen user privacy without undermining online advertising. Chrome walked that razor’s edge when it revealed plans to create a “privacy sandbox” that will increase protections to user privacy without breaking programmatic advertising that funds publisher content. To bolster its position, Google claimed […]
The IAB Tech Lab and IAB Europe on Tuesday released the second version of the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry solution for conducting targeted advertising in compliance with GDPR. Google has committed to its long-awaited integration with the framework by the end of Q1 2020. The TCF initially was a feature included […]
After more than a year of tinkering, Facebook is rolling out a long-promised tool that lets users see the data about them that third-party apps and websites pass to Facebook, and then decouple that data from their Facebook account. Starting Tuesday, users in Ireland, South Korea and Spain will be able to access the feature, […]
Two days after LinkedIn announced its Audience Engagement API, Omnicom has released a product built around it – an analytics tool called “Professional Audiences.” Omnicom released its B2B analytics tool Thursday, and it’s designed to help creative, business development and media teams generate insights for campaigns or pitches, said Slavi Samardzija, global CEO of Annalect, […]
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) could disrupt audience-based TV advertising before it really has a chance to take off. The law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2020 – less than 140 days from now – is chock full of language and requirements that TV broadcasters and their data partners need to pay attention to. […]
In the race to be the open internet’s default cookie-based advertising ID, The Trade Desk has jumped out to an early head start. The Trade Desk has allowed other ad tech companies to freely sync with its cookie pool for years, and last year it fully commercialized that product with the launch of the unified […]
The agency holding companies all face the same external struggles – new competition, slowing growth and the need for new skills. But they’re taking different paths to confront these challenges. Traditionally, holding companies followed the same playbook: growth by acquisition to amass the scale that gave them clout across major clients. But the shift to […]
GumGum, the image recognition tech startup, announced two C-level appointments on Monday as the company sharpens its focus on contextual advertising technology. Patrick Gildea, the former CFO of Gracenote, has joined GumGum as financial chief, and Ben Plomion was promoted to chief growth officer. Ad tech companies have seized on contextual targeting largely because audience […]
When the Democratic National Committee (DNC) introduced individual donor thresholds earlier this year for candidates to qualify for primary debates, it was trying to empower campaigns with grassroots support. But these new rules have also created a massive online audience acquisition spree. The first round of debates was relatively easy to qualify for – with […]
As audiences erode on linear TV, supply is shrinking and pricing is going up on scarcity value. Advertisers have already shifted a significant amount of money out of linear TV as audiences flock to digital. According to Zenith, digital will make up more than half of ad spend globally for the first time in 2021, […]
Late last year, analysts questioned whether The Trade Desk could keep pace with runaway growth forecasts, after it rocketed from a $1 billion company in 2016 to $6 billion. Less than a year later, The Trade Desk continues to beat expectations. Its Q2 revenue grew by 42% year over year to $159.9 million, according to […]
Nike continues to build out its digital platforms. On Wednesday, the athletic apparel giant revealed it had purchased the analytics startup Celect for an undisclosed price. Read the release. Celect marks Nike’s second analytics acquisition, following its 2018 purchase of customer analytics startup Zodiac Metrics, which was folded into Nike’s data science group, now led […]
In May, during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the impact of data privacy and competition policy on the digital ad ecosystem, former AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley told lawmakers that Google and Facebook deserve to be broken up. “Let’s apply some common sense to the regulatory process just by acknowledging that consumers pay […]
