Omnichannel advertising workflow platform Frequence claims it has a new way for audio companies to court advertisers. On Tuesday, Frequence announced an integration with iHeartMedia-owned Triton Digital, a streaming audio and podcast tech company.
Claritas acquired AI-driven marketing automation platform ArtsAI to strengthen its personalization, measurement and AI capabilities.
McDonald’s has been criticized for alleged bias against Black-owned media. But McDonald’s recently struck a multiyear advertising deal with Pod Digital Media (PDM) as part of an effort to increase its ad spend with minority content creators and expand its reach with diverse audiences.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Being Human White Ops is now the company formerly known as White Ops. The traffic verification provider is changing its name due to the “toxic association of good and bad with color and race,” wrote CEO Tamer Hassan in a blog post. Hassan said in the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Curb Appeal Google introduced curbside pickup sales for retailers. The tool is in beta, so stores must sign up for Google’s “store pickup” program, run live local inventory ads and have items guaranteed in stock. Stores can still have text saying they offer curbside […]
Unlikely insights into consumer behavior can help move the needle, and location data is a rich source of unlikely insights. On Tuesday, UK-based location data company Blis released an analytics tool in beta called Smart Trends that blends point-of-interest (POI) data and offline movement data to draw conclusions about how people interact with physical locations […]
When WPP officially launched Connect in May, it hoped the endeavor would evolve into a core aspect of its media buying umbrella GroupM. “What we’re building centrally will eventually become part of the overall GroupM operation,” said Connect CEO Ruud Wanck. “We’re looking at it as an incubator. But as all media goes programmatic over […]
It’s one thing if a consumer views your video ad, but it’s another if they were receptive to your content. In an effort to gauge that impact, WPP agency MediaCom forged a global partnership Tuesday with Realeyes, an emotion analytics platform that uses opt-in facial-coding technology to gauge user response to online video ads. The […]
Digital advertising is a budget behemoth, but television advertising is still a nearly $70 billion business – a fact that informs the planning process at WWP-owned media agency MediaCom. Because although digital video and streaming is starting to take a big bite out of linear’s lunch, TV is still the dominant consumption source, according to […]
The brand-agency relationship used to be relatively simple. True, brands would have multiple agencies – social, digital, media-buying, for instance – but most of the spend would focus on a single area, usually television. But as other digital channels become more important to consumers, brands are beginning to realize that stuffing too much money in […]
