Tremor International has been on a journey to rebuild its biz with assets on both the buy and sell sides of digital media. And with its acquisition of Amobee announced earlier this week, Tremor is now making inroads into linear inventory. Tremor International CEO Ofer Druker spoke with AdExchanger about the company’s plans for its most recent acquisition.
The ill-fated (and relatively brief) love affair between telcos and ad tech really is over. On Monday, Singaporean telco Singtel finally sold mobile-focused marketing platform Amobee to Tremor International for $239 million. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter. (Read the release.) Tremor went public in June 2021. Its stock, which is […]
Ad tech companies are partnering up left and right to aggregate as much TV data as possible. But for media buyers, TV inventory also needs to be alike and accessible across channels – which is possible through an end-to-end platform, said Jessica La Rosa, VP of partnerships and data at Tremor International.
By Karim Rayes, chief product officer at Tremor International This article is sponsored by Tremor Video. For a long time, opacity was the norm in the programmatic industry. Budgets went in, media placements came out the other side, and few questions were raised in between. But as technology improved and the focus on ROI increased […]
Tremor Video has had a dizzying few years in ad tech. In 2017, Tremor Video sold its demand-side business to Taptica, while shortly afterward the sell-side unit rebranded to Telaria and merged with Rubicon. Once the name was available, Taptica re-rebranded as Tremor Video. In 2019, Tremor acquired RhythmOne, an ad network and exchange, and […]
While ad tech companies have been accumulating VC funds and growing their stacks – and sales orgs – for a while, many took pains to rightsize over the past year or so. For some, the intent was to recapitalize or to prep for a sale if an IPO was a no-go. For others, it was […]
Data is changing the way movies are marketed. Studios like Open Road Films are taking a more targeted approach to marketing, moving from broad-based buys – such as people aged 18 to 49 with a propensity for “dramas” – to more granular segmentation. “When finding audiences for a particular film, it used to be really […]
Tremor Video rebranded Tuesday as Telaria and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange as “TLRA” beginning Sept. 26. The move follows the August sale of its buy-side business to mobile ad tech firm Taptica for $50 million. The company hopes the rebranding will further distinguish Tremor’s sell-side business from the Tremor Video demand-side […]
Tremor Video, one of the earliest video ad nets, has sold its demand-side business to the Israeli mobile ad platform Taptica for $50 million, the company revealed Monday. Tremor’s buy-side assets will be housed under an independent business division within Taptica called Tremor Video DSP. All of Tremor’s buy-side employees, led by longtime Tremor exec […]
Tremor Video has hired Mark Zagorski, the former CEO of data management platform and exchange eXelate and current EVP of the Nielsen Marketing Cloud, as CEO. He will begin July 10. Tremor, a video ad platform that more recently began focusing on the sell side, has had a vacancy at the top since February, when […]
Veteran Tremor Video CEO Bill Day has resigned, effective immediately, and will serve as a special adviser to the company through June. Paul Caine, the non-executive board chairman for Tremor since 2014 and former Bloomberg Media CRO, will step in as interim CEO and lead the search for a permanent replacement, the company said Thursday. […]
Tremor Video’s Q3 revenue was down 1% YoY in Q3 to $41.3 million, a slight improvement over last quarter, when the company’s revenue tumbled 12% YoY. The company is break even in terms of cash flow. When asked about the revenue decreases last quarter, CEO Bill Day told AdExchanger: “We’ve said this since we went […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tim Ware, vice president of advanced television at Tremor Video. Programmatic TV is among the most highly debated subjects in the media business and perhaps the best example of true convergence we’ve encountered as […]
Custom content was all the rage even as early as 2007, when entrepreneur and actor RJ Williams founded celebrity and lifestyle site Young Hollywood. The millennial-focused publisher claims it averages 150 million monthly video views across desktop, mobile, OTT and social today. Young Hollywood evolved from content partnerships with portals like AOL, Yahoo and YouTube, […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Monica Seebohm, national director of politics and advocacy at Tremor Video. At the Campaign Tech East conference two weeks ago, much of the conversation focused on whether or not the 30-second TV ad still works for […]
Public video platforms Tremor Video, TubeMogul and YuMe released Q4 and FY 2015 results over the last week, citing rapid uptick in their respective programmatic (with the exception of YuMe) and cross-screen video businesses. Tremor Video Tremor on Thursday reported revenue of $51.8 million in Q4, which beat its guidance by about $6 million and […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Craig Berlingo, vice president of product, publisher platforms, at Tremor Video. I’ve been thinking about cronuts a lot lately. They came out of nowhere, and all of a sudden everyone is talking about them. […]
Warner Brothers is moving deeper into programmatic video, using Tremor Video’s supply-side platform exclusively to set brand controls around certain properties and to help monetize more mobile video inventory. The move to adopt an SSP, which it first began testing in Q2 of last year, is in lockstep with Warner Brothers CEO Kevin Tsujihara’s prediction […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Laura Buchman, vice president of publisher platform sales at Tremor Video. Premium publishers know that buying impressions through direct buys works, in spite of limited targeting options. An audience that fits a basic demographic […]
Scripps-owned video news site Newsy is boosting its programmatic operation. One tactic is rewiring its yield management provisions to help prioritize programmatic direct vs. open auction deals. It is using a new real-time reporting tool in Tremor Video’s supply-side platform to do so. Although Newsy is six to seven years old, it’s relatively new to […]
Story has been updated with Q2 results. Tremor Video announced Thursday it has acquired Australian video supply-side platform TVN. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though all 14 TVN employees will join the parent company. Tremor CEO Bill Day told AdExchanger his company will increasingly focus on international opportunities this year, and that APAC […]
Mobile is big and video is big – and putting the two together presents a gargantuan advertising opportunity that Verizon will be primed to capture if it closes on AOL. “Verizon has been trying to figure out how to grab a bigger share of the ad tech pie, so the move makes sense strategically on […]
Tremor Video’s growth continued in Q1 2015 as the company netted $40.6 million in revenue (16.4% YoY growth), above analysts’ predictions. Read the release. Eighteen percent of that revenue came from programmatic, which has been growing at a steady pace. Last quarter, programmatic was 14% of Tremor’s revenue; it was 4% this time last year. […]
Tremor Video, the self-described premium video marketplace, said programmatic accounted for 14% of Q4 revenue (total of $41.9 million, a 15% YoY increase), and it expects more positive growth in 2015. Total revenue for the year grew 21% to $159.5 million, the company revealed in its Q4 earnings Thursday. Gross margins were 36.2%, compared to 40.9% […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Greg Smith, vice president of programmatic at Tremor Video. People say there’s not much premium video inventory available programmatically. That will change when buyers and sellers better understand their options. There are two common […]
Despite serving 1.3 million students and families, the 35-year-old national nonprofit Communities In Schools (CIS) had set a “pretty low bar” for brand awareness according to Amy Labenski, CIS’s director of digital marketing. Specifically, they didn’t have any. “We weren’t reaching the general public,” she said. Labenski joined the nonprofit, which focuses on youth issues […]
“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 Greg Smith, vice president of programmatic at Tremor Video. Display ads are most commonly used for direct-response campaigns that rely on behavioral targeting. Video ads, by contrast, generally do not […]
Tremor Video had a rosy Q2, with a 23.2% increase in revenue year-over-year to $43.7 million, up from last year’s $35.5 million. After a rocky entrance to the public markets one year ago, Tremor recouped its losses and improved gross margins. This quarter, Tremor experienced a greater net loss than in the second quarter of 2013, at $5.4 million. […]
Tremor Video’s management this week hammered on the company’s embrace of programmatic video and talked up plans to roll out a supply-side platform (SSP) for premium publishers later this year. (Read the earnings release.) Tremor posted a top-line revenue increase of 40.8% year over year, to $34.9 million. CEO Bill Day emphasized during Tremor’s earnings call the company’s […]
Media Storm, the media planning and buying arm of agency network Water Cooler Group, is breaking down siloes to mirror consumer – and client – media requirements. Media Storm’s sister companies Hip Genius (social media) and Maude (creative/strategy) share the same real estate and come in on cross-team campaign meetings, according to Charlie Fiordalis, who […]
