Brian Lesser, CEO of GroupM North America, will speak at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. Marketers are under pressure to transform their businesses around digital while keeping costs low, so agencies have to evolve their business models to meet these demands. At GroupM, that evolution has played out with the launch of mPlatform, which […]
Andrew Bruckner, VP of equity research at RBC Capital Markets, will share the Wall Street POV on programmatic at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. There’s room in the digital advertising ecosystem for more than just the duopoly. “I do see an opportunity outside of Facebook and Google,” said Andrew Bruckner, VP of […]
Before taking advantage of their first-party data, brands first must figure out what the heck they’ve actually got. “People don’t really appreciate the assets they’ve accumulated over the course of years,” said Acxiom vet Josh Herman, who now leads tech development for CRM, ad tech and analytics platforms at Kimberly-Clark Corp. He spoke at AdExchanger’s […]
The top trending post about ad tech on the Ad Ops subreddit page asks the pertinent question: “Is it safe to assume 95%-plus of ad tech companies are full of shit?” The responses aren’t pretty. “This is the sentiment that our industry has – this post got a 93% upvote,” Jayne Pimentel, Reddit’s revenue and ad […]
Cox Interactive is piloting smart routing technology from Dyn that speeds up the outbound bid request to demand-side platforms (DSPs). It unveiled early results of the test at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O Ops Talks in New York on Wednesday. Faster connections mean more DSPs can deliver bids before publisher-set timeouts. And more bids mean more programmatic […]
Youssef Squali will speak at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC I/O Conference in New York on October 27. All eyes are on The Trade Desk as a much hoped-for bellwether of the revivification of ad tech IPOs. There’s a lot of goodwill coming from all directions, even from competitors. A rising tide will raise all ships. That’s the […]
More than a quarter of programmatic decisions are made by agencies for their advertisers – up from 20% since September. The revelation was presented by Mark Mahaney, managing director at RBC Capital Markets, at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC I.O conference in San Francisco on Thursday. The figures, which surprised Mahaney, show agencies make 27% of those decisions […]
The irony of digital marketing is that it has to justify itself because it can justify itself. If Michelle Weiskittel, manager of digital marketing at Albertsons Safeway, wants to get the budget to do her job, she must demonstrate as clear a connection as possible between online campaigns and actual sales. Print doesn’t carry that […]
If there’s one thing that ticks off Jim Kiszka, Kellogg’s senior manager of digital media, it’s paying extra for viewable impressions. “I absolutely resent the fact I have to pay more for viewability,” Kiszka said Wednesday at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC.IO show in San Francisco. “I wish I could have a refund for the last 10 years […]
Jonathan Hsia will discuss advertiser perceptions of ad tech on April 13 at PROGRAMMATIC.IO in San Francisco. While ad tech capabilities have matured, marketers still need to catch up, said Jonathan Hsia, Mindshare North America’s head of digital investment. “It really is more a question of: What do marketers need to do to leverage ad tech in a […]
Shaina Boone will discuss viewability, fraud and supply chain issues on April 14 at PROGRAMMATIC.IO in San Francisco. Talking about fraud and viewability is one thing – but “actually managing it is an entire program,” said Shaina Boone, managing director of marketing sciences at OMD USA, where she helms the analytics practice. Managing advertiser expectations is […]
To borrow a phrase from baseball, B2B programmatic advertising is still in the early innings. A couple of factors have kept B2B marketers from fully adopting the media strategy as rapidly as their B2C brethren. “The biggest difference in B2B and B2C programmatic is the value of the inventory,” said Tony Uphoff, CEO of Business.com. […]
Forrester senior analyst Susan Bidel will appear Oct. 29 at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference, an event dedicated to the advancement of programmatic media and marketing. The ad industry’s collective hand wringing over ad blocking reached a fever pitch in September during Advertising Week in New York City. In reality, however, it’s far from a block […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Last week, during an on-stage conversation at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O event in San Francisco, Omnicom Digital (OMD) chief Jonathan Nelson described the agency’s evolving approach to technology, data, partnerships, […]
Do open auctions have a future? It depends which publisher you ask. According to executives from Meredith, Yahoo and AOL, who spoke at the Programmatic I/O Conference on Wednesday, change is coming. “It won’t live on” in its current form, said Meredith’s VP of programmatic sales and strategy, Chip Schenck. “Because it’s used and thought […]
Rather than an isolated channel, programmatic is a means to an end – and it all starts with measurement between devices and across channels. And from measurement comes revenue. “The whole cross-device measurement question is about understanding the broader marketing goal, but we also all know that if it’s not measured, it’s not valued,” said […]
Self-serve programmatic media buying is gaining favor with the in-house marketing set. That was a key trend that emerged at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco Monday, where approximately 500 marketers and data-driven tech companies convened to share how programmatic media buying is changing advertising. At the outset of the show, AdExchanger Director of […]
Facebook is investing heavily in measurement products to help prove out the value of its ads. Its offline conversion tracking on behalf of CPG marketers is perhaps the key example of this. In one indicator of that program’s importance, the company recently promoted Fred Leach, who helped develop it, to head R&D measurement and partnerships across verticals. […]
PopSugar, the online media platform blending everything from celebrity content covering Prince Williams’ new baby to a hand-selected beauty and fashion subscription service, is in the process of creating a full-scale digital outfit to bring content and commerce to a new level. Colette Dill-Lerner, who recently joined PopSugar as EVP of Performance Marketing, spent close […]
Last week’s PROGRAMMATIC I/O delivered many interesting discussions, and one of them revolved around transparency in bidding on an exchange. What if you had sufficient transparency on every impression’s auction, such that all buy-side participants bidding in an auction (even bidding “lurkers” or non-bidders) were revealed? Who would care about this data and why? Hold […]
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The PROGRAMMATIC I/O agenda is ready! AdExchanger has published the full list of sessions for our upcoming conference at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel, April 8. Please visit www.programmatic.io to see the lineup. Given AdExchanger’s goal to educate marketers on the New Normal of Digital Marketing, the conference agenda offers a range of topics covering programmatic media […]
AdExchanger is pleased to announced new panelists have been added to our April 8 Programmatic I/O conference taking place at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel. Nicolas Franchet, Head of E-Commerce, Global Vertical Marketing at Facebook, and Gautam Thakar, GM, eBay Advertising, will join our “E-commerce and Targeting The Shopper” panel. One of several conference themes, marketers are increasingly […]
I am excited to announce that AdExchanger will produce two conferences in 2013 called Programmatic I/O. The events will be held on April 8 in San Francisco and on September 16 in New York City. Programmatic I/O is designed to educate Marketers about the New Normal for Digital Marketing Input/Output. For a hint of the […]
