Facebook’s Dynamic Ads – a format the social network introduced last year – is available as of Tuesday on both Instagram and the Facebook Audience Network. (More on the Facebook blog.) Basically, Dynamic Ads lets advertisers promote products to their highest-value prospects as they navigate Facebook (and now Instagram) properties. Facebook claims that more than […]
After two years as director of mobile for North America at Essence, Jeremy Sigel is pleased that his position has become obsolete – and he has advice for mobile chiefs at other agencies. “Don’t hold onto mobile,” said Sigel, who stepped down as head of mobile on Tuesday and stepped up as global director of […]
When Google rolled out its CRM matching program Customer Match last fall, it seemed to follow in the footsteps of Facebook’s Custom Audiences, which launched in 2012. But Google’s strategic partnership with Salesforce, revealed Tuesday at the latter’s annual Connections conference in Atlanta, Georgia, boosts both companies’ ability to make identity-based matches based on CRM and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Over The Fence Adblock Plus (ABP) surpassed 100 million users, cementing its position as the most scaled ad-blocking solution. It’s worth noting ABP numbers are hazy (a single user can have multiple downloads across devices, and many will have dropped the product). Numerous rival ad blockers have […]
Comcast’s acquisition of French video supply-side platform StickyAds on Monday will give its video ad tech division a serious boost. Comcast’s video ad server FreeWheel will be able to streamline the way big TV broadcasters allocate inventory by embedding StickyAds’ private exchange tech into its own video ad server. The capability will let FreeWheel’s TV […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cut To Chase JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is incensed about fin tech startups like Mint, Acorn and Bloom “scraping” his customers’ data to offer financial visualization and advice services. The New York Times fact-checked his warnings to customers about “these start-ups (taking) more of […]
The claim that Facebook Instant Articles is about a faster user experience is a red herring. While that may be one goal, the program has a strong business rationale: It extends Facebook’s walled garden and creates a new foothold for its $1 billion Facebook Audience Network ad platform. Instant Articles does not allow third-party monetization. […]
“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 Alex Reinhold, head of solutions at Sociomantic. The trusty second-price auction is a staple of the real-time bidding process. In the programmatic sphere, buyers bid on a publisher’s inventory and, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Lesser Way Former Xaxis CEO Brian Lesser recently ascended to a management position with GroupM, which has huge significance for WPP’s overall media buying strategy, Rob Norman told AdExchanger at the World Media Economic Summit on Thursday. “Brian very much has a business design and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. YuMe’s Potential Programmatic Progress The theme of YuMe’s Q1 2016 earnings call: Wait and see. In previous quarters, the video ad company struggled to grow its programmatic revenue, despite platform investments. Last quarter it showed only $1 million to $2 million. This quarter? No […]
After completing his first full quarter as CEO of performance marketing company Criteo, Eric Eichmann seems confident. Criteo had “very strong top-line growth,” Eichmann told AdExchanger ahead of the company’s Q1 earnings call on Wednesday. Revenue was up 41% year-over-year to $162 million at constant currency minus traffic acquisition costs and that performance was consistent across […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Vide-0% Visible Measures is now offering what it calls “the first 100% fraud-free video solution.” The selling point is raising eyebrows among a competitive set where incremental fraud is a fact of life. DataXu and TubeMogul, for example, offer fraud-free guarantees in the form […]
The German startup Eyeo GmbH, which owns Adblock Plus (ABP), debuted a partnership Tuesday with Sweden-based micropayments provider Flattr in which ABP users will pay for their online content in a new way. The service, called Flattr Plus, sets a minimum threshold for ABP users to pay each month for content. That monthly fee gets […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pindustry Focus Pinterest has reversed a decision from late last year, when it suspended sales support and consultation to brands outside its core retail and CPG verticals. Jack Marshall of The Wall Street Journal reports Pinterest is “now in the early stages of verticalizing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Snappy Retort Snapchat kicked off ecommerce ads last week, with Target and Lancôme running formats where users are shown a 10-second call-to-action spot, after which they can either swipe up for more product info or down to go straight to a mobile shopping page. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Media Biz Booming For WPP WPP’s GroupM media arm won $854 million in net new business in Q1 (earnings release), nearly double its new billings during the same quarter last year. Some of the costs are attributable to the Q4 acquisition of Essence, a […]
LiveRail, once a dominant video supply side platform and ad server focused solely on publishers, is now a shell of its former self. It’s been nearly two years since Facebook bought the company for $400 million-plus, and in the last six to nine months it has shut down major pieces of it and transferred some […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Unaimed Arrows Never Miss It’s early days for addressable TV, but there are already complications beyond the technical difficulty and inefficiency involved in matching digital or personal data to a live viewer. TV wants digital’s microtargeting capabilities, but “just enough to minimize waste, [and] […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lean Machine You can’t slash your way to growth. Procter & Gamble, which made huge cuts to its marketing budgets to improve profits this year, now plans to invest more in advertising, management said on the company’s Q1 earnings call. The plan is to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cable Boxers The FCC’s effort to unlock the TV set-top box market got quick results. (Comcast almost immediately released a non-OTT service.) But the ANA is pushing back hard, reports Ana Radelat at Ad Age. For TV buyers, “A fair marketplace exists in which […]
Greek-yogurt brand Chobani stays competitive with larger CPG companies by constantly testing. One of these tactics includes marketing-effectiveness studies, such as a recent research initiative with Yahoo and Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) to prove search ads drove in-store sales. “If you’re an ecommerce brand, you can measure that sale directly,” said Jessica Lauria, senior director […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mountains And Molehills YouTube remains the only digital platform stealing significant TV budgets, but its budgets are still just an insignificant fraction of overall TV, Mike Shields writes for The Wall Street Journal. Advertisers are wary of digital video prices (YouTube CPMs run between […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Working On It Publishers on Google AMP are pleased with faster page loads, but their ads are lagging behind. Google pre-loads cached content, storing it temporarily and serving the ads through DoubleClick. If Google started pre-caching ads the way it does for articles, it […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad-Block Ripples A report from Oriel, a publisher ad-block solutions firm, found ad blocking can impact a wider swath of the Internet than commonly suspected. The report says Ryanair and British Airways may lose customers because the terms and conditions box can be blocked, […]
With additional reporting by Allison Schiff. Scrap cat videos. Google wants a piece of the $70 billion linear TV ad pie – of which $300 million-plus and growing is addressable. As such, the tech giant unveiled a bunch of TV-related products and updates Wednesday at the National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas. Announcements […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RMX Buys Yahoo? Former Yahoo execs Bill Wise and Ross Levinsohn have joined forces with two equity firms – Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners – to submit a bid for Yahoo, Kara Swisher reports. Once upon a time, Wise came to Yahoo through […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Evan Krauss, vice president of publisher development, Americas, at PubMatic. Over the past half-century, media has played an increasingly significant role in the country’s presidential elections. In the 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sum Of Its Parts As of Monday, the deadline for would-be Yahoo acquirers, Verizon stands out from the pack of suitors, according to anonymous sources at The Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile Comcast and Alphabet have withdrawn. Yahoo may be uniquely valuable to Verizon, as […]
Consumers across the globe find advertising too frequent and irrelevant, and the younger ones are more aware of ad blocking, according to an Accenture Digital Consumer study released Monday. More than 80% of the 28,000 people surveyed in 28 countries thought they saw too many ads. Seventy-three percent of those aged 14-17 know about ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Boots On The Ground “The sooner we as an industry admit that Facebook and Google and Apple and Snapchat are running the tables on media innovation — mobile and video innovation — the sooner we’ll do something about it,” writes Cory Bergman, who runs […]
