Technology

The first quarter of 2013 was marked by some notable acquisitions—Google acquired Channel Intelligence; Twitter snapped up Bluefin Labs and Facebook agreed to buy Microsoft’s Atlas DMT. Merger and acquisition activities for marketing and other sectors have generally cooled down, however, according to a new report from The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI), an investment bank […]

Adaptly, a company that aims to assist brands in increasing and understanding their “engagement” across social media, may now have greater ability to help its clients: The company is the 13th to be awarded Facebook’s Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer title for the social net’s exchange. For Adaptly, being given the keys to the Facebook Exchange is […]

Online ad fraud bubbled up in a big way last month, after London-based Spider.io published details of a botnet responsible for generating billions of illegitimate impressions per month. The sites that are selling allegedly non-viewable impressions from the Chameleon botnet are not widely recognized brands. Reports have identified Alphabird and DigiMogul as among the site […]

Marketers are missing out on potential revenue from consumers because they cannot adequately analyze the deluge of data they receive from increasing sources, according to a new study called “Marketing Science: from Descriptive to Prescriptive” released by IBM. The study found that only 32% of the 358 chief marketing officers surveyed feel they actively engage […]

As CMO for Adobe, Ann Lewnes is in a unique position: “a marketer marketing to marketers.” But that, she says, gives her an advantage in understanding the company’s target audience. Lewnes sat down with AdExchanger at the Adobe Summit earlier this month to talk not just about the new Marketing Cloud from Adobe, but also about […]

During the first week of college basketball’s March Madness, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, there were 36.6 million live video streams across all digital platforms, according to the NCAA, Turner Sports, and CBS Sports. This is more than twice the number of live video streams in 2012, which saw only 18.3 million for […]

After debuting its Media Metrix Multi-Platform in beta in November, comScore opened the offering to all US clients and released the top 50 web properties for February 2013, based on data from both desktop and mobile visitors. While the top multi-platform properties overall were similar to the top desktop properties, there were several companies that […]

Ad management services provider Marin Software became the latest private tech company to go public, and it’s first day of trading on Friday was indisputably positive for executives behind the decision. Now, of course, comes the hard part: getting to profitability and managing expectations along the way. In a conversation with AdExchanger a few hours […]

App developers and publishers who have yet to stop using unique device identifiers (UDIDs) now have a cut-off date. Apple informed app developers yesterday that it will soon ban any apps or updates to existing apps that include UDIDs, a component of analytics systems that publishers and developers have been using to track apps and […]

Google’s is taking its time adding features from supply side platform AdMeld, acquired nearly two years ago, to its DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Doing so is an ongoing process, Neal Mohan, VP for display advertising products, told AdExchanger in a discussion of Google’s attempts to broaden its appeal to brand-name publishers and big-spending marketers. This week, the company […]

“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 Kirk McDonald, President at PubMatic. The constant stream of new technologies in our everyday lives has created a “shiny new penny” syndrome. One day it’s emerging mobile apps that take the […]

Even as its parent Time Warner works on spinning off Time Inc. into its own separately traded entity, the company has been pursuing a more aggressive approach to programmatic ad sales the past few months —  albeit quietly. But it will have to go forward without two champions of that process. Earlier today, Chief Revenue […]

Volkswagen created the “Smileage” mobile app, expanding on its 2012 campaign slogan, “It’s not the miles; it’s how you live them.” Working with Google, VW’s app is the first project from Google’s Art, Copy & Code project, showcasing how companies can use technology — Google’s technologies in particular — to create more innovative brand experiences. […]

“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 Andy Atherton, SVP at AppNexus. It’s the second in a series on the emergence of programmatic reserve. A few weeks back, I laid out the case for a closer look at programmatic […]

Some companies claiming to be “mobile demand-side platforms” are veiled mobile ad networks, or at least they’re mobile ad network-like. Which is to say they may be taking margin without disclosing price paid to the client. Others may be more transparent, buying on a per-impression basis and charging licensing fees as a standard DSP would […]

Mozilla’s move to stop third-party cookie tracking in the latest version of its Firefox browser – echoing Apple’s Safari browser attributes – has attracted wide attention across the advertising industry.   And no wonder – Mozilla’s Firefox has about a 23% share among consumers in the browser market. AdExchanger reached out to a selection of […]

Resistance to Mozilla’s proposed blocking of third-party cookies got a boost yesterday from the IAB. The trade organization released a statement from president and CEO Randall Rothenberg opposing Mozilla’s plan, and an online FAQ about the situation for those who may want to learn more. In late February, Mozilla announced that for Firefox version 22, […]

“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 Jed Nahum, Senior Director of Programmatic Sales at Microsoft Advertising. At the recent IAB Annual Leadership Conference, I attended a cocktail-fueled discussion of programmatic.  The discussion started with a […]

Tablet usage is growing at an impressive speed, with traffic from tablet devices doubling over the past year, according to new data from Adobe’s Digital Index. Additionally, tablets surpassed smartphones for the first time in February 2013, when looking at global traffic share. Adobe looked at more than 100 billion visits to more than 1,000 […]

Lifestyle blog network and ad rep firm operator Evolve Media is working on what executives say is a balanced approach to digital sales, albeit one that will continue to tilt more toward direct selling over programmatic methods for at least the next few years. Unlike other digital publishing and ad services rivals, such as Federated […]

What did marketers take away from the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City last week? Below we recap some keynotes, breakout sessions, and broad themes from the conference. The Wednesday evening general session, featuring a conversation between Federated Media’s John Battelle and Twitter’s Adam Bain, garnered a lot of buzz online (AdExchanger story). During the […]

While the Wednesday morning keynote at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit focused on a mega-demo of the new Adobe Marketing Cloud, the Thursday session took a big picture view, with NASCAR, adventure seeker Felix Baumgartner, NBC Sports, and Khan Academy sharing stories of challenges overcome and lessons learned. Taking Risks Baumgartner, who jumped from the edge of […]

Following its string of social media acquisitions, Oracle has pulled all its social capabilities into one product, allowing marketers to create and publish content, listen to and engage customers, and analyze interactions from a single interface. Unveiled at the South by Southwest conference, Oracle’s Social Relationship Management (SRM) product ties together capabilities gained when the […]

While much of the focus on data has been on the way marketers and ad agencies employ it, there are a few companies who work primarily with the editorial side on how best to target their content (and the advertising that supports it) to readers. That space is shrinking a bit today, as content discovery […]

More than 5,000 people from 27 countries came together in Salt Lake City for the annual Adobe Digital Marketing Summit, where they have heard about Adobe’s latest news from top executives, seen how clients and brands from a wide range of industries leverage these tools, and discussed trends and challenges facing marketers today. The Last Millisecond: In Marketing […]

Martini Media, the online ad network focused on targeting young “affluent” audiences for the past four years, is broadening its offerings to the programmatic side. Martini’s move reflects a number of factors reshaping the online ad landscape, but the shift is not without pitfalls. For one thing, the ad network model in general is under […]

Adam Bain, president of global revenue for Twitter, took some jabs at Facebook and explained his marketing vision for Twitter at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit on Wednesday afternoon. Federated Media CEO John Battelle led the Q&A. After sharing the latest news from Twitter — that the social network now has more than 200 million active […]

Christopher Reynolds, VP of marketing analytics at Condé Nast, spoke about how the publisher is improving its audience knowledge and helping advertisers better leverage its sites, at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit this morning. “There is a lot of pressure from the buying side to focus more on the audiences,” Reynolds told Adobe’s Brad Rencher […]

At its 2013 Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, Adobe Systems announced an upgrade to its digital advertising and analytics platform. And it debuted a new, socially enhanced user interface and mobile capabilities for the Adobe Marketing Cloud. The company’s Media Optimizer, a cross-channel ad management platform, will be available in two versions: standard […]

Google properties dominated the top mobile websites in terms of market share of visits during the week ending February 23, 2013, according to Experian Marketing Services. Experian introduced Hitwise Mobile at the beginning of March, a new offering that will provide data on mobile internet activity, including weekly website rankings from mobile devices, share of […]