Former Meta employee files a complaint regarding the company’s illegal business practices; virtual AI salespeople are hosting 24/7 livestreams; and Google SPN advertisers will now receive a list of URLs where their ads appeared.
If you’re an ad tech or martech vendor thinking about pitching a marketer, then Kamal Bhandal, global VP of brand and consumer experience at Invisalign, has some important advice for you.
Away from the dancing robots, Power Rangers-themed VR experiences, self-driving race cars and the buzzing of drones, deals do get done at Mobile World Congress. That’s why French location-based dating app Happn came to Barcelona for the show. “We’re here to have discussions, to gather insights, to see what our competitors are doing, to find […]
Chango’s new CRO, Keith Lorizio, has an ad tech CV as long as your arm – but it was only a short while ago that he became a convert to the gospel of programmatic. “I wasn’t a fan of programmatic about three years ago back when I was a rep with a big publisher working […]
Twitter is letting CPG advertisers link their ‘Promoted’ ad placements to offline sales, courtesy of Datalogix. The offering has strong echoes of Facebook’s year-old POS conversion-tracking relationship with Datalogix. Twitter has already run tests with 35 brands using the “offline sales lift” feature to weigh the impact of online engagement with in-store transactions. Advertisers include […]
“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 by Adam Chandler, CRO in Residence at Lerer Ventures. This fall, a number of companies, most notably Federated Media, announced sales force downsizings. In the process, these companies began what I expect […]
Yesterday, media sales planning and management platform company INVISION announced new debt-structured financing that “will support INVISION’s development and launch this year of the DealMaker Crossroad (DMC) … as well as DealMaker Digital, a comprehensive digital ad sales planning and management system.” Read the release. INVISION CEO Lynda Clarizio, formerly head of Aol’s Platform-A, discussed […]
