Technology

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeff Green, founder and CEO of The Trade Desk. Up until recently, it was unheard of for advertisers to put their Super Bowl ads online ahead of the big game. Today, it’s a smart […]

A tracking mechanism that won’t die, even when a user actively opts out? That’s one tough cookie. Privacy advocates are turning up the heat on Verizon Wireless again with a flurry of reports decrying what’s become popularly known as the “zombie cookie,” a unique ID header developed by Precision Market Insights, the carrier’s data-driven and […]

“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 Eric Berry, co-founder and CEO at TripleLift.  Back in the early days of the web, it was fairly intuitive that every publisher couldn’t work with every advertiser. As a result, […]

There’s an understandable fascination with the rat-a-tat deal-making in marketing technology circles, but transformation of the marketing discipline will only come as Fortune 1000 CMOs embrace these changes. Extend your time horizon a few years, and this industry’s evolution is fundamentally a head game. For more on this, AdExchanger asked senior execs from two leading “marketing cloud” companies […]

Justin Bieber’s bulge. Those are three words you probably didn’t expect to see – but that’s exactly what was trending the most among college-age girls after images were released from the Bieb’s photoshoot for Calvin Klein underwear last week. For brands targeting girls 18-24, the question is at what point they should be all over that bulge, […]

Agency and ad tech vet Alan Schanzer landed at Pandora as SVP of Agency Relations on Jan. 13, and his goal is to broaden the streaming radio company’s relationship with advertisers. “I’ll be helping to develop Pandora’s strategy with holding companies, major advertisers and agencies, and, at the very top level, help them understand the […]

Last week at CES, Google had a lot to say about video and viewability. But the company is not a viewability virgin. It’s had a viewable impressions tool called Active View in the market for well over two years and will soon extend viewability reporting across YouTube, Google Display Network and DoubleClick for both desktop […]

Can BitTorrent – often regarded as the de facto file sharing protocol for online content piracy –achieve the legitimacy to attract brand advertisers? While that remains to be seen, the company took a step toward improving its ad offering when it unveiled a partnership with Adzerk on Wednesday. Adzerk, which works with publications like social […]

China is a market on the programmatic verge – Magna predicts that China and Japan will surpass the UK programmatic ad market by 2017 – and Alibaba seems more than ready to embrace it. The Chinese ecommerce giant revealed Wednesday that it’s become a majority shareholder in AdChina, a Shanghai-based digital ad platform that combines supply- and demand-side […]

The singles ad would read like this: Mobile native inventory seeks demand. In an effort to act as matchmaker, global mobile ad platform Opera Mediaworks launched Tuesday a private marketplace native extension of its mobile ad exchange, Opera Mediaworks Ad Exchange (OMAX), which until now had just focused on programmatic display and video. Because the […]

When Oracle bigwigs gathered Tuesday in New York to discuss the company’s platform strategy, they focused on data’s central role – which makes sense given Oracle’s acquisitions of Datalogix and technology and services platform BlueKai. Oracle’s data investments, as they pertain to the Oracle Marketing Cloud, manifest through the Oracle Data Cloud initiative spearheaded by […]

There’s a world outside of app stores and it’s App Annie’s goal to help developers capitalize on it. On Tuesday, the app analytics company announced $55 million in Series D funding and launched a tool that analyzes the usage data around popular apps, including active users (daily, weekly and monthly), the number of sessions, time […]

Data is a bit like a little black dress – it goes with everything. That’s especially true for women’s apparel brand Cache, which maintains an active ecommerce site and more than 230 brick-and-mortar stores in malls across the US. The data collection potential is huge. “In-store transactional data, online behavior, CRM data, offline purchases down […]

Adobe isn’t exactly synonymous with ecommerce. At least, synonymous in the sense of competitors SAP and Oracle, which have invested aggressively and acquired commerce-centric companies like hybris, ATG Commerce and Datalogix, respectively. The extent of Adobe’s commerce capabilities, to date, have spanned standard site analytics, A/B testing and tag management, but the Adobe Marketing Cloud […]

Programmatic has been gaining steam in the Asia-Pacific region, but the industry still lacks awareness and understanding, according to a new study from Singapore-based MediaQuark. Of the 108 respondents to the company’s survey, 62% said that a lack of industry understanding was one of the biggest challenges for programmatic in the APAC market. Looking at […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, senior director of business development at Index Exchange, a division of Casale Media Inc. There is just one path forward for the sell side of digital advertising: total accountability. As fraud persists […]

Google’s big video reveal this week included a significant update to its premium video exchange, Google Partner Select. At the time of its launch last June, it was unclear how many participants initially were involved in Google’s effort to “bring together the best of brand advertising with the best of programmatic,” Neal Mohan, Google’s VP […]

Hear that? It’s the sound of Google quietly mentioning that it plans to report on audibility for video ads at some point later this year. The audibility reference was buried as a footnote toward the end of a larger update on Google’s intention to roll out viewability reporting across all of its ad platforms, including […]

“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 Matt Scharf, manager of display media operations and analytics at Adobe. Contrary to popular belief, out-of-view impressions aren’t worthless. As controversial as that sounds, impressions that are never seen can […]

Just a few months after it hired Digilant COO Nathan Woodman to take charge of its demand-side business, IPONWEB has nabbed another well-known ad tech guy. The 13-year-old ad platform company has hired Bob Walczak, VP product at PubMatic, to oversee BidSwitch, its ad exchange-like product. At IPONWEB, Walczak will run sales and business operations for BidSwitch, a […]

Video platform M&A exploded in 2014, particularly in the second half of the year, according to data from Coady Diemar Partners. A report from the boutique investment banking firm highlights substantial growth in the ad tech sector, led by demand for technology assisting in the convergence of TV and digital video. Four of the top 11 […]

As it turns out, Acxiom’s LiveRamp and Datalogix were friends all along. The duo – sometimes portrayed as rivals in the data onboarding space – on Monday revealed they’ve expanded their existing partnership through 2017. At the time of Acxiom’s $310 million acquisition of LiveRamp last spring, CEO Scott Howe compared Acxiom to Switzerland. That is, […]

2014 was the year advertisers collectively asked the question, “How much?” As in, viewability aside, how much ad fraud is actually out there? Some of the numbers bandied about, often by the fraud vendors themselves, were alarming to say the least. A report released by cyber-security startup MdotLabs in October 2013 before it was acquired […]

The ad tech industry isn’t going anywhere, but 2014 exhibited some of the financial shakiness that dogged public ad tech stocks through much of 2013, especially for companies that went public in the last 12 to 15 months. “The only slight surprise for me and many others [in 2014] was the sudden switch in sentiment […]

If you’re an Oracle competitor, the Datalogix acquisition looks formidable indeed. It adds considerable power to its data-as-a-service offering, which to this point had mostly online data. But if you’re a marketer using Oracle’s technologies – or using Datalogix data to link online advertising to offline sales – what additional benefits can you expect? While, […]

The mad dash for offline-to-online data connections has been one of the top trends of 2014. Enterprise giant Oracle was the latest to close the loop between the online and offline worlds when it revealed Monday its intent to acquire data solutions company Datalogix. “This deal is about championing commerce,” said Ray Wang, principal analyst at […]

Oracle has agreed to acquire Datalogix, a data solutions company that shopped itself around in recent weeks, as AdExchanger has reported. As we previously reported, Facebook, Nielsen and Adobe have also shown interest in the business. Although the deal price was undisclosed, Oracle paid about 6.25x for BlueKai. If Datalogix had revenue of $125 million, that means […]

Google spent the year branding YouTube as the de facto video partner for brand advertisers. 2014 was certainly active for Google’s video properties. Its ads and commerce chief, Susan Wojcicki, took the reins at YouTube as senior vice president, Google packaged the top 5% performing YouTube videos for brand buys in a program called Google […]

The attribution space heated up this year. First Google snapped up Adometry, then AOL grabbed Convertro. Not to be left out, Rakuten bought DC Storm. Everybody wants a solution to the attribution problem – but attribution is more than just another shiny object. “The marketer’s world has never been more fragmented – from channels to possibilities […]

If banner advertising has peaked, native advertising is still on its way up. Proponents of native cite better consumer engagement and higher rates for publishers. London-based market research firm Mintel pegged the current native advertising market at $1.8 billion, predicting it will rise to $9.4 billion by 2018. Of course, “native” is a broad term […]