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ADT tracks a bespoke metric called “marketing cost per installation” that measures the impact of media on what ADT cares most about: the roughly 1 million alarms its technicians install every year.

Having nipped at Meta’s and Google’s heels for years, Pinterest is finished with being the underdog. It’s been getting very “serious” about its investments in lower-funnel advertising products, says Pinterest CRO Bill Watkins.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demolishing Demos TV networks are used to making big advertising pitches about their role in the zeitgeist and their reach among younger audiences. They have splashy celebs, and they’re the ones who know the youngs. Or knew the youngs, rather.  In the upfronts this […]

Advertisers worried about MFA could take a cue from the mobile app ecosystem and focus on performance instead of viewability. 

The German skin care company Beiersdorf, whose brands include Nivea and Eucerin, is using AI to test different elements of a brand’s creative assets to improve media performance.

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Todd Gordon, VP of Client Development at Tatari. The industry is busily debating the implications of the loss of online identifiers due to actions by Google and Apple – but […]

Snap is embracing direct response advertising with both arms. It’s been launching performance-focused ad products for Snapchat at a regular clip over the past couple of years, and on Thursday it added a few key new features to its app ads toolkit. Performance advertisers on Snapchat can now optimize for installs directly from Lenses, implement […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Simone Chaffiotte, vice president and director, audience strategy at Carat USA. When companies arrange their marketing organizations by separating brand building and performance into distinct departments, teams often define their […]

Pinterest is growing its ad inventory with a new promoted carousel format, which moved out of beta on Thursday. Carousels, which allow advertisers to include up to five images within a single format, can appear within the Pinterest main feed as a related pin recommendation or through search. Users tap the cover image and then […]

FTD Companies, parent company of online floral delivery brands ProFlowers and Interflora, wants to get back to the basics of brand marketing. “Our company, like many brands, has been obsessed with directly attributable, perfectly measured marketing for the last five years,” said Jeff Severts, CMO of FTD Companies, who previously served as CMO of Ulta […]