2015 wasn’t the best time for an ad tech company to tap the public markets. And 2016 seems like it will be equally uncertain – one need only look at the strange ongoing saga of AppNexus to see that. But it’s an overstatement to say that all ad tech companies are in trouble, according to […]
Rob Norman will speak at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference, taking place in New York on January 20-21. If you were forced to name one media buying entity that sets the agenda for the rest of the industry, it would have to be WPP-owned GroupM. It was GroupM – umbrella to Mindshare, MEC, Xaxis and Essence […]
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 […]
At Industry Preview 2015, a group of top publishers took a crack at what digital publishing looks like in 2015 in this panel led by MediaLink’s Wenda Harris Millard. Participants included: Zazie Lucke, Head of Global Media Marketing, Bloomberg Dao Nguyen, Publisher, Buzzfeed Troy Young, President, Hearst Digital Jon Steinberg, CEO, Daily Mail, North America […]
Despite the amount of attention Facebook Exchange generated when it was released way back in 2012, today it’s mostly focused on retargeting desktop users. Consequently, some ad industry insiders are skeptical of its future. When asked directly about FBX’s future at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference, David Fischer, Facebook’s VP of business and marketing partnerships, said […]
When President Barack Obama won his second term, his victory left an impression on Kraft Foods CMO Deanie Elsner, who at the time was working in the company’s beverage business. “Obama’s was such a brilliant strategy because they didn’t talk to everybody, but they knew exactly what to do to drive the scale benefit they […]
Acxiom CEO Scott Howe discusses what his company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is the final part of an interview series that previously featured John Nardone, CEO of [x+1], Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai, and Bill Demas, CEO of Turn. In terms of cross-device linkage, what do your clients want and […]
Turn CEO Bill Demas discusses what his company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is a continuation of a series that previously featured John Nardone, CEO of [x+1] and Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai. On Wednesday we’ll post an interview on this subject with Scott Howe, CEO of Acxiom. In terms of cross-device […]
BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol discusses what his company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is a continuation of a series that previously featured John Nardone, CEO of [x+1]. On Tuesday we’ll post an interview on this subject with Bill Demas, CEO of Turn, and on Wednesday we’ll post an interview with Scott Howe, […]
At Industry Preview 2014, AdExchanger sat down with four CEOs heading companies that fielded strong data-management platform (DMP) offerings. One area of traditional weakness for DMPs for marketers, as noted by then-Forrester analyst (and current AdExchanger research director) Joanna O’Connell, centered around the ability to drive insights from mobile devices. John Nardone, CEO of [x+1], […]
