Tony Fagan

VideoAmp cuts 50 jobs; Roku reports its quarterly earnings; and customer acquisition costs are rising.

Off Ramp Publicis signed a deal to license LiveRamp’s RampID and Authenticated Traffic Solutions (its alternative IDs to third-party cookies) on behalf of clients. This alone is hardly major news. After all, LiveRamp sells its cookieless identity products to all the major holdcos.  But Ad Age also reports that Publicis execs were “exploring” the idea […]

The ad industry’s lofty ambitions for alternative currencies has come back down to planet Earth. Alt currencies struggle to gain market share because most buyers and sellers still transact on Nielsen numbers, while audience panels are back on the measurement menu.

VideoAmp may have established itself as one of the top alternative currency contenders in 2023, but the pressure to win market share is causing cracks in its shiny facade.

TV measurement company VideoAmp is bringing on Tony Fagan, a former Google VP of ads data science and engineering, as its first chief technology officer. Fagan joins a number of other C-level hires over the past year, as VideoAmp plots an expansion after a $75 million funding round in May. Since 2020, former Comscore COO […]