Now that Teads and Outbrain are one, the vision, explained CEO David Kostman when the deal was first announced, is to become an “end-to-end, full-funnel platform for the open internet.” But what does that mean in plain English?
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Outbrain is trying to shed its chumbox rep by bringing social media-style vertical video to mobile publishers on the open web.
The Chrome Privacy Sandbox team is stuck within a Catch-22. Plus, why haven’t media buyers bought more into alternative currencies?
Crunchtime The EU’s Digital Markets Act has teeth – and now it’s biting, TechCrunch reports. The DMA regulates anti-competitive practices within “gatekeeper platforms” that have an annual turnover of at least 7.5 billion euros. Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance all tick that box. Gatekeepers have until March to ensure their operations in the EU […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demand More Google has started its global rollout of Demand Gen, a machine-learning ad product launched in beta over the summer. Demand Gen is akin to Performance Max, Google’s most prominent machine learning-based ad product … which is a euphemistic way to say […]
For Heineken, viewability just doesn’t go far enough in proving the real value of an ad. So the alcoholic beverage brand conducted its first experiment with attention metrics.
The cookieless future is daunting, and publishers who prepare now will have a competitive advantage over those who aren’t ready. But publishers will need more than unified ID initiatives, which could take years, writes Todd Tran, Chief Strategy Officer at Teads. Publishers should start now by prioritizing contextual signals and a content monetization strategy.
Teads might not have its stock ticker yet – the company decided to postpone a planned IPO this summer – but there are lots of other items on the immediate agenda, says Pierre Chappaz, the company’s founder and executive chairman. The programmatic video platform, which is best known for originating the outstream ad unit, has its eye […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Some SPAC BDG Media Inc., which owns publications such as Bustle, Elite Daily, NYLON and Input, is set to acquire digital media company Some Spider Studios for $150 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. The all-stock purchase comes ahead of BDG’s planned public offering […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. IPO Craze Another day, another IPO. The latest ad tech company seeking to go public is Altice’s programmatic platform Teads, which filed with the SEC to trade on the Nasdaq, The Wall Street Journal reports. Teads is looking to tap investors while they’re hot […]
Google has said it will release a default setting to block advertisements that violate its heavy ad intervention policy by the end of August. Sources tell AdExchanger those new policies coincide with the release of Chrome 85, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Google declined to confirm exactly when the ad intervention changes will go live, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Vote With Your Feet Mobile location data is gaining importance in US politics. Campaigns can now connect supporters at a rally or event to online audiences via mobile device IDs collected at the venue, a popular trick for campaigns with large rallies and social […]
Bad actors are exploiting VPAID to serve malicious auto redirects hidden within video ads. VPAID, which stands for Video Player Ad-Serving Interface, is the old and hoary industry standard for interactive in-stream video ads. First introduced way back in 2012 by the IAB Tech Lab, VPAID created as many problems as it aimed to solve. […]
Footwear brand ASICS is running out of patience with shoddy viewability measurement. “People still continue to buy nonviewable impressions – it’s just crazy,” said Philip Bryant, senior manager of media at ASICS Digital, a subsidiary of the ASICS corporation that’s focused on building, testing and implementing digital technologies for use across the larger org. One of […]
“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 Tran, chief strategy officer at Teads. AI is driving innovation in every industry, but in advertising, it’s still a bit murky. Brands need to understand what AI means and […]
Altice USA launched an advanced TV business on Thursday called A4 to provide marketers and MVPDs with audience-based, multiscreen advertising solutions. A4 is the culmination of multiple acquisitions by Altice, starting with Cablevision in 2015, said A4 President Paul Haddad, who heads the 500-person team. Altice also has acquired digital platform Audience Partners and programmatic […]
San Francisco-based startup NovoRoll is doubling down on mobile and outstream video with a $2.5 million injection of growth capital from Silicon Valley Bank. The company, which helps publishers monetize outstream and native video, had previously raised a $700,000 seed round. It will use its new financing to grow its engineering resources and global footprint […]
SourceMedia, the publisher of longstanding B2B titles “American Banker,” “Mergers & Acquisitions” and “Accounting Today,” traditionally relied on paid subscriptions and conference proceeds to drive its revenue. But increasingly, it’s turning to newer ad formats such as outstream video and native to capture more incremental marketing spend. SourceMedia sees itself as a premium information resource […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Todd Tran, chief strategy officer at Teads. Although viewability has been a big topic for the past couple of years, the standard for viewability of video ads is still hotly debated. Most of the […]
The Netherlands-based telco Altice will acquire Teads in a cash deal that values the outstream video ad tech firm at $307 million, the companies confirmed Tuesday morning. It’s the latest in a string of acquisitions for Altice. Earlier this month, the company bought the US programmatic platform Audience Partners for an undisclosed sum, and last year it closed […]
A year after launching a dedicated media unit, Dow Jones Media Group is doubling down on video and augmenting more native and outstream formats to combat a perennial problem: pre-roll scarcity. “Like many publishers, we see huge demand for video and wish we had more inventory we could sell,” said David Minkin, who joined Dow […]
While private marketplaces (PMPs) and preferred deals are predicted to outpace open exchange buys by 2018, their rate of adoption has been inconsistent – especially when it comes to video advertising. Some ad buyers have avoided PMPs out of concerns over reach, leaving some publishers twisting in the wind to accurately forecast their fill rate. […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Todd Tran, global senior vice president of mobile and programmatic at Teads. Programmatic is the Industrial Revolution of media. It has transformed the media industry, creating hundreds of ad tech companies with this seismic […]
On the heels of raising $47 million last month, Teads has acquired the interactive video platform Brainient to further expand its video ad operation in the US, Europe and Asia. Although London-based Brainient is strongest in the UK, France and Nordic markets, its US ambitions made Teads a logical buyer. Terms of the deal were […]
French video supply-side platform Teads has raised 43 million euros in debt financing – about $48 million – to continue pushing its outstream video ad formats. The financing came from several sources, including French multinational bank BNPP, Bank of China and HSBC. The company has raised $70 million in combined VC and debt, according to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Todd Tran, global senior vice president of mobile and programmatic at Teads. How do you determine whether a video ad campaign is successful? Especially when buyers of video inventory all seem to have different […]
Buyers have decidedly mixed feelings about outstream video. Outstream formats are generally billed as a highly viewable alternative to scarce pre-roll because they’re embedded natively within article text and only play with the sound on when a consumer scrolls over. But some say outstream formats are difficult to discover within the exchange environment and, unsurprisingly, […]
Premium video scarcity and the rise of in-feed mobile video have created the perfect storm for an explosion of outstream video – a format that, instead of running instream as pre-roll or mid-roll, is either embedded between article content or within a slideshow. Thus, these formats don’t need to be attached to publisher’s video content to […]
The only certainties in life are death, taxes and multiple definitions of “viewability.” The Media Rating Council (MRC) defines a video ad as viewable if half of that ad is in-view for a minimum of two consecutive seconds, but others, like media agency GroupM, are demanding all pixels be in-view with the sound on for at least 50% […]
