Microsoft ad sales vet Rob Wilk joined Yahoo last year to lead revenue for the company’s advertising business with one main goal in mind: to evangelize Yahoo’s owned-and-operated properties. Most advertisers just aren’t aware of the inventory Yahoo has to offer – and that’s on Yahoo.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The MMM Transplant Some call it media mix modeling; others call it marketing mix modeling. Regardless, there’s a noticeable uptick in advertisers incorporating MMM into ad measurement programs. But MMM is old fashioned. It doesn’t involve user-level data, takes weeks (if not months) to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Palm Readers Panera is an early adopter of a palm-scanning biometric data collection product created by Amazon that allows customers to “sign in” with their palms. Doing so links their purchases to Panera’s loyalty program so they can collect rewards. Privacy advocates have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Break The Chain A new antitrust bill on the Hill is going straight for Google’s jugular. On Thursday, a group of mainly GOP senators led by Mike Lee (R-UT), with some Democrat support, introduced the Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act, which aims […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thinking Outside The Xbox Microsoft is evaluating vendors to help launch an in-game Xbox ad network for free-to-play titles, Insider reports. Rather than interstitials that appear between breaks in mobile games, the Xbox network would help place a snazzier type of ad, like a […]
Microsoft is the multitrillion-dollar advertising company that nobody saw coming. There’s a reason for that. Until recent, Microsoft was a distant and relatively uninvested competitor in the advertising sector. The company didn’t have ad tech, exactly, and its own properties – MSN, the Bing search engine and the Edge browser – never gained marketer mindshare. But that’s going to change, said Rob Wilk, who took over as head of Microsoft Advertising in January.
