Microsoft’s selection as Netflix’s ad sales partner of choice single-handedly set the stage for Netflix’s last quarterly earnings report. But Microsoft hardly brought up the deal at all when it closed out its 2022 fiscal year on Tuesday. It attributes a good chunk of its current growth to its cloud business.
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. It’s fitting that Gyanda Sachdeva, LinkedIn’s VP of product management, found her first job as a financial analyst after grad school by reaching out to people on LinkedIn. In 2010, Sachdeva joined LinkedIn and quickly rose through the […]
On the surface, LinkedIn’s plan to acquire cross-device data company Drawbridge may seem like a head scratcher. What does a B2B social network want with a probabilistic cross-device vendor? The deal creates potential for LinkedIn’s marketing products that go beyond Drawbridge’s existing technology assets. If LinkedIn wanted access to an identity graph, it could have […]
LinkedIn is buying Drawbridge. The acquisition was announced quietly on Tuesday via a mere mention buried in a blog post, and the deal price was undisclosed. The deal is expected to close by the end of June. Drawbridge CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan and CTO Devin Guan are coming aboard, although LinkedIn declined to share which other […]
LinkedIn launched interest-based targeting through its self-serve ad platform on Wednesday after more than three months in beta. B2C marketers are accustomed to targeting prospects based on their interests – “fast food lovers,” “coffee drinkers,” “gym goers” – but there is less interest data available for B2B marketers, said Abhishek Shrivastava, LinkedIn’s director of product. “A […]
The B2B martech space is heating up as titans spend billions to build their stacks – and now it’s makeover time at LinkedIn. On Monday, LinkedIn opened the public beta for a revamped version of Campaign Manager, the self-service tool advertisers use to manage and measure campaigns on its platform. The idea is “to make it […]
LinkedIn has finally launched a feature that has been available to marketers on Facebook for three-plus years. The site rolled out conversion tracking for sponsored content and text ads on Thursday after a serious overhaul of its tech infrastructure. At its most basic level, the feature lets marketers determine if a user converted after clicking or viewing […]
LinkedIn is launching more programmatic buying access to its historically walled arsenal of B2B inventory, just two weeks after Microsoft acquired it. Tuesday’s launch of programmatic display opens RTB access to all major demand side platforms and agency trading desks. Advertisers can either buy LinkedIn display ad inventory via the open exchange or through LinkedIn Private Auctions. The […]
The flurry of marketing tools that LinkedIn rolled out last year is paying off for its ad business, said CEO Jeff Weiner during the company’s Q2 earnings call. Its Marketing Solutions business grew 32% in the second quarter to $140 million. With 52% of all traffic to LinkedIn coming from mobile, the platform saw a […]
LinkedIn’s display business deteriorated during Q1 2015 and will continue to tumble, the company said during its quarterly earnings call on Thursday. While LinkedIn reported Q1 revenues of $638 million, up 35% YoY, its disappointing Q2 and full-year guidance ($670-$675 million and $2.9 billion respectively) sent shares plummeting more than 25%. During the call, CFO […]
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner referenced a “re-envisioned” marketing solution suite coming soon during the company’s Q4 earnings, and it appears he acted swiftly. The company on Thursday rolled out two products: LinkedIn Network Display and LinkedIn Lead Accelerator. [The company’s blog post.] Network Display is an ad product reaching across 2,500 publisher sites as well as […]
LinkedIn had strong growth across all lines of business in the fourth quarter. Marketing Solutions revenue for the quarter was up 56% year over year, coming in at $153 million. This beat some analysts expectations, which projected that figure at a slightly lower $131 million. [Here are the full results.] Marketing Solutions accounts for 24% of […]
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner confirmed the social network wants to enable customers to prospect and nurture leads well beyond its own walled garden during the company’s Q2 call Thursday, though he stopped short of calling it an ad network. “As big a network as LinkedIn is – and they’re adding exponential numbers of people everyday […]
