Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Census Incenses The ANA published a survey of advertisers who oppose a potential change to the US census that would undercut marketing spend and measurement. The Trump administration wants to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census, which advertisers worry will […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dominoes AT&T’s Tuesday triumph over the Department of Justice will set off a wave of M&A. Leading the way is Comcast, which on Wednesday is expected to announce an all-cash bid to wrest Fox’s assets away from Disney’s $52.4 billion all-stock deal. According to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Taking Inventory A couple of years ago, Snapchat charged between $300,000 and $500,000 to sponsor a Lens, and video ad campaigns were $750,000 a pop. Today, Snapchat ads have a lower CPM than Facebook or Instagram and soon every type of ad product Snapchat […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cannesultants Cannes Lions kicks off next week, but without the hometown hero. Last year, the French holding company Publicis Groupe said it would forgo Cannes and other award shows in 2018 and reinvest savings in an AI platform. In a press release on Monday, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The House Always Wins As YouTube keeps dialing up brand safety protections, creators in marginal or disreputable categories are feeling the brunt. A relatively small but active group of creators who stream from inside casinos (because people like to watch others gambling) have found […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Live For The Moment Facebook’s latest TV gambit is paying up for live news. The platform announced a list of news programs for its video hub Watch with talent like Shep Smith of Fox News and CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Facebook will pay publishers to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Justifying $22B The Wall Street Journal does a post-mortem on strife at Facebook that led to the resignation of WhatsApp’s founders. Facebook paid $22 billion to acquire WhatsApp in 2014, and as the years ticked by, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing Nice As he throws his energy into a new marketing investment vehicle, Martin Sorrell has no plans to undermine WPP Group, where he remains the eighth largest investor, Reuters reports. Reuters spoke with another big WPP stakeholder, Jupiter Asset Management fund manager Alastair […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Second Bite Apple has discussed a potential in-app ad network to target audiences based on keywords – similar to its current App Store search business – and drive app downloads. Snap, Pinterest and others have been approached about the idea over the past year, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fountain Of Youth The online media habits of US teenagers have changed dramatically since Pew Research last conducted a major survey of 13-17-year-olds. From 2014 to 2015, Facebook was used by 71% of US teens, then the only social platform with a clear majority, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow The Trends Mary Meeker delivered her famous “Internet Trends” deck (this one clocking at 294 slides) at Recode’s Code conference Wednesday. Smartphone adoption and internet user growth are slowing, but time spent online continues to rise. US adults spend on average 5.9 hours […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Find Your Audience Some publishers, still reeling from Facebook’s news feed algorithm change, are migrating to YouTube. Hearst, for example, is focusing more efforts on long-form episodic content from flagship magazines like Seventeen, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and Cosmopolitan, Business Insider’s Tanya Dua reports. Hearst […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Many Appy Returns It’s a truism that iOS users and Apple App Store downloads generate more value for brands than downloads that happen through Google’s Play store. But over the past couple of years Apple has been running away with the market, according to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cleaning The Nest Twitter debuted a set of political advertising policies it will have in place for the 2018 US midterm elections. Read the blog post. Political advertisers will have to verify their identities and that they are based in the US, either by […]
The IAB Tech Lab on Wednesday released a disclosure framework to help buyers evaluate the attributes of audience segment data. The Data Transparency Framework is open for public comment until July. The IAB Data Transparency Standards Working Group will incorporate the feedback into a final version released this summer. If the framework is adopted, digital […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Splitsville The long-term agency-client relationship is fading into the past, as major clients like HSBC, Campbell’s and Ford give up decades-long relationships for a fresher approach. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.’s president of global markets, said […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV Scrapper Roku has maintained a leading position in the streaming device market in spite of heated competition from Google’s Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, according to eMarketer data. And that’s despite Roku’s shift from pure hardware sales to a business model […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rewinding Videology Videology, once the agency world’s preferred solution for online video, declared bankruptcy earlier this month after a tough few years. Digiday recounts how in the early days of digital video, Videology’s ad network model offered TV buyers an easy and scaled way […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Story Time Advertising is coming to Facebook Stories, a sleeper hit on the Facebook platform that draws 150 million daily active users. Ads will be 15- to 20-second videos that users can skip and are for now limited to branding initiatives, TechCrunch reports. Click-throughs […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Onboarder Offloaded? Acxiom is shopping LiveRamp, a linchpin of data-driven advertising, Mike Shields reports for Business Insider. LiveRamp, the strongest player in the data-onboarder category, would have many suitors, with marketing tech giants like Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce and IBM likely to make a bid. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Network To Get Work Turner President David Levy gave an impassioned call for television advertisers to embrace audience targeting and abandon the Nielsen currency standard at the broadcaster’s upfront presentation on Wednesday. Nielsen’s metric “no longer fully captures how to successfully measure an audience […]
Intuit’s three properties, Quickbooks, TurboTax and Mint, are well-known to business professionals and consumers. Yet only 1% of customers used all three products – and Intuit itself was relatively unknown, with just 6% awareness in the US, said global marketing director Lauren Stafford Webb. Intuit wanted to message customers that its three products works better […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sorrell Speaks Martin Sorrell had plenty on his mind as he took the stage at Luma Partners’ DMS conference on Tuesday, so much so that moderator Terry Kawaja could hardly get a word in. Sorrell’s most surprising comments were on Amazon’s ad business. He […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Turmoil At The Top More drama at the top of WPP, as shareholders rally against Chairman Roberto Quarta’s reelection after his handling of CEO Martin Sorrell’s exit last month. The concern was sparked by a report from advisory firm Glass Lewis, which said it […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fresh Perspective Oath CEO Tim Armstrong and Unilever CMO Keith Weed are being considered for the top job at WPP Group, Financial Times reports. Armstrong, who ran AOL during its $4.4 billion sale to Verizon and now oversees the combined AOL and Yahoo subsidiary, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TV Killed The Video Star? Videology, a video ad network that tried to reinvent itself as an advanced TV company, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reports. Amobee has offered $45 million for the company’s assets, which likely will […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bespoke Petroleum BP has consolidated its corporate, fuel and castrol marketing business under WPP after an almost year-long review process. The holding company will launch a new unit called Team Energy to provide services for advertising, media, investment, digital, branding, PR and research. Talent […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GDPR Cops Aren’t Ready Even the regulators charged with enforcing GDPR aren’t prepared for it. Seventeen of 24 EU regulators surveyed by Reuters say they don’t have the necessary funding to enforce the law. Watchdogs need more resources, but many EU governments haven’t updated […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bill Gates On Ad Privacy Regulation poses a striking challenge to online ad sellers, “but I do think the big companies, as regulation comes, will be able to handle it,” says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in a CNBC interview alongside Warren Buffett. “People don’t […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Membership Has Its Privations A paywall and digital subscription craze has swept newspapers, magazines and new media companies in the past year, but many “will soon realize the size of their ‘real audience’ and will soon realize that they don’t pass the ‘value for […]
