ROI

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem … 

Personalization and customization are great, but when marketers go overboard with targeting, they don’t cast a wide enough net to attract new customers and foster growth, says JP Jansen, SVP of marketing and CMO for North America at Mars Pet Nutrition.

Adopting standards and interoperable IDs can benefit the entire ecosystem, enabling solutions that can help solve for omnichannel ROI and more effective tracking of ads across platforms.

These are steps you can take to achieve incrementality, streamline your media strategy and drive exponential growth, writes Brian Chap of Tech Recipes.

Attention metrics are fast becoming a priority for advertisers, especially as a cookieless world looms large. But the technology requires more standardization before it can reach its full potential.

No one in the C-suite except the CMO cares about reach, impressions, likes, shares, followers or anything else that isn’t directly tied to performance. Instead, they care about clear measures that show progress against specific, measurable problems and ROI.

Freddie Liversidge, HP’s global head of media, explains the benefits and challenges of building an in-house digital media agency from the ground up.

The digitization of advertising unleashed a torrent of easily measurable statistics for marketers to measure performance. These KPIs have their place in marketing strategy. But digital marketing has become too focused on proxy KPIs in lieu of the metric that matters most: revenue, writes Michael Morris, co-founder of Hyperlocology.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. LOL Remember Comscore Rankings? Digital publishing is in a period of self-reflection. Instead of bragging about mass reach, the new norm will be looking at rational numbers to evaluate reach and readership, writes Brian Morrissey, former president and editor-in-chief of Digiday who now writes […]

“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 Nico Neumann, assistant professor and fellow, Centre for Business Analytics at Melbourne Business School.  Two recent episodes of the well-known Freakonomics podcast reviewed novel academic work on advertising effectiveness under […]

Despite a global pandemic, Google still managed to dominate the top three most trafficked AdExchanger stories in 2020. In December, Google faced its third government antitrust lawsuit in less than two months, and since the start of the year, readers were keeping eyes on the tech giant when it announced that it would eliminate third-party cookies […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). Attribution, or the measurement and assignation of an outcome following an ad exposure, has revolutionized media planning and buying with the promise of being […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WarningMedia After a second spate of layoffs at WarnerMedia on Tuesday, which hit between 5% to 7% of its 25,000 employees, CEO Jason Kilar addressed the company’s future during a town hall meeting. As per Business Insider, Kilar said that the “painful” cuts were […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Edward Kim, founder and executive chairman at SimpleReach. Facebook recently announced the launch of IGTV, a hub for long-form, vertical videos that’s accessible from both a new app and the existing Instagram app. Facebook’s […]

Janneke Niessen is CEO of Improve Digital, a publisher yield optimization firm based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: How did Improve Digital begin? Publishers are facing a shift in the online advertising ecosystem where performance campaigns, ad networks and exchanges are playing a more and more dominant role. In 2007, over 40 percent of the […]