Hotels.com estimates more than one in five transactions on its platform occur through mobile devices, representing a growing area investment for a predominant player in online travel booking. “We can always do better from a brand recognition standpoint,” commented Steven Quach, director of online marketing for Hotels.com. “Anywhere we can find pops of growth that […]
The guys who came up with Interpublic Group’s display ad-trading strategy have embarked together on a joint consulting venture. Their new company, Unbound, will serve as a systems integrator to brands and publishers as they make decisions about programmatic ad technologies. “We saw a pretty big gap in the marketplace. There’s no real technology-and-service systems […]
A new Google patent for a wearable “gaze tracking” technology (US patent #8,510,166) has fantastical implications for how advertising could evolve in a world full of head-mounted interfaces such as, oh, Google Glass. The possibilities include far-out concepts such as billboard viewability reporting and “pay-per-gaze” billing for ads. In its patent claim, Google describes a […]
David Karnstedt, a veteran of digital media who led and then sold Efficient Frontier to Adobe, has left the company for unspecified “opportunities.” Adobe confirmed Karnstedt is no longer SVP and GM for media and advertising solutions, a position he has held since the 2012 acquisition of search and display ad-management platform Efficient Frontier, where […]
IBM unveiled today a new initiative, Digital Experience, that allows organizations to create customized versions of IBM products. Noting that clients want the option of deploying either on-premise or in the cloud, this initiative is a reaction to new purchase patterns, explained Gary Dolsen, director of IBM’s digital experience software. “What we’ve found is customers […]
Among Adobe’s visions for its Marketing Cloud suite of products is enabling a streamlined process of creating content and delivering it all the way through to campaign execution, the company said. Just weeks after Adobe’s announced $600 million acquisition of marketing automation company Neolane (See AdExchanger story) to round out its creative and content capabilities […]
