Chris Swanicke
Articles By Chris
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How Dentsu's Posterscope And Vistar Media Are Bringing RTB To Digital Outdoor
The out-of-home market will get a little more data-rich next quarter as some big digital billboard networks embrace location analytics courtesy of Posterscope and Vistar Media. Posterscope, a London-based OOH agency owned by Dentsu Aegis Network, will use Vistar Media’s location data to support an bidding platform for ad delivery to signs owned by Lamar Advertising and […]
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FASTG8 Offers A Data Leg Up To SmartWool And Other Outdoor Lifestyle Brands
Outdoor lifestyle brands have plenty of room to grow their digital sales, but many hold back for fear of cannibalizing brick-and-mortar distribution, according to ad tech veteran Tyler Moebius. Moebius hopes to help these marketers – companies like SmartWool and POC – overcome that paradox with FASTG8 (“fast gate”), his data-driven marketing company based in Carbondale, […]
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Digital OOH Sellers Automate, But Resist RTB
Digital out-of-home (OOH) ad sellers are looking for a boost from ad tech, but obstacles remain if the marketplace is to ever resemble online advertising. Digital billboard advertising today is reminiscent of the early days of ad tech in online advertising, according to industry veterans, with ad tech vendors making inroads with sellers such as […]
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Orchard Platform Applying Programmatic To Loan Market
As the ad tech industry consolidates, some veterans of the space are looking to apply their skills to new fields. One result is Orchard Platform, founded in November and led by CEO Matt Burton, formerly sales engineer for AdMeld. The platform facilitates direct lending, bringing together institutional investors, loan originators and consumers. Most of Orchard’s […]
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Adobe’s 'Project Iceberg' Looks Beneath The Surface Of Attribution
Adobe has tweaked its approach to attribution, removing out-of-view ads from its attribution model in an effort dubbed “Project Iceberg.” The project has allowed the company to analyze the viewability of sequences of ads served to individual users, as part of its larger evaluation of how well those ads drove subscriptions for its Creative Cloud product […]
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Citi Targets Small Publishers For Fresh Ad Inventory
Citi is aiming smaller to get bigger results with its digital marketing campaigns. The bank enlisted the help of CJ Affiliate, the affiliate marketing network formerly known as Commission Junction and part of Conversant (formerly ValueClick), to target ads beyond aggregators of credit card offers. Those aggregators are a staple of credit card marketing campaigns, […]
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OpenX Plays A Game Of Inches For SSP Supremacy
Supply-side platforms (SSPs) such as OpenX, Rubicon Project and PubMatic are under heavy pressure to increase value for publishers who pay a premium to use their technologies. “The fact that SSPs are positioned on the sell side after much of the transaction value has been extracted by other intermediaries puts more pressure on their margins […]
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LeadiD, A Tag-Powered Lead Tracker, Overcomes Publisher Reticence
This is the second in a series on evolution in the lead gen space. Read our earlier story on social media lead generation. What’s in a lead? Between aggregators reselling leads, marketers deciding where to focus their sales efforts, and the myriad of marketing platforms supporting both, it can be hard to judge the quality […]
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Forrester And Shop.org Study: Attribution Still Confounds Retailers
Complex attribution remains a work in progress for retailers, and most still rely on last-click attribution models, according to Forrester Research and Shop.org’s State of Retailing Online 2014 study. The survey found “attribution modeling is very early and very imprecise,” said Sucharita Mulpuru, Forrester analyst and author of the report. Part of the problem is […]
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For Social Media Leads, Automation Begets Automation
The proliferation of customer relationship management (CRM) platforms and marketing automation platforms has allowed business-to-business (B2B) marketers to focus higher up the sales funnel and seek out vendors to automate lead gathering. At the same time, the growth of social media has provided a wealth of data on potential customers. It’s led some marketers to […]
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