Yesterday’s most highly-anticipated presentation of the day came and went like a dusty, desert breeze as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg offered what amounted to a sales pitch at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. It appeared Facebook and Sandberg didn’t understand the audience: leading brand marketers from around the globe […]
Curtis Hougland is founder of Attention, a full-service social media marketing agency and part of MDC Partners. Hougland discusses his agency, social media marketing and more. AdExchanger.com: In social media, what is the unique approach to addressing audiences that isn’t present in other digital or traditional channels? CH: We can actually engage in conversations, which […]
In spite of recent announcements that Facebook has surpassed Google and Yahoo! for overall display impressions, ecosystem feedback suggests there’s a difference between what a Facebook or social display impression (Twitter, StumbleUpon, etc.) offers and that of a “regular” display impression – i.e. through a standard IAB-sized display ad unit. With this challenge in mind, […]
One of the complaints about Facebook advertising has been the inability to sync any advertiser’s ad campaign efforts with other, non-Facebook, cookie-based efforts. In other words, if you’re a brand marketer looking to raise awareness for a particular product, you’ll need to use Facebook (FB) advertising’s own metrics – which could include anything from demographic […]
Today, social media marketing company Buddy Media announced the acquisition of Spinback, a social commerce analytics and technology company. On Buddy Media’s company blog, Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow explains how attribution was at the center of the reason for buying Spinback: “By combining sharing and conversion tracking into one elegant technology solution, Spinback shows […]
Search and display ad platform provider, Efficient Frontier, has announced the integration of Facebook Ads into its platform. Efficient Frontier CEO David Karnstedt said in the press release, “While other players in the market may now provide Facebook advertising to their clients, they are not truly optimizing across the other channels to improve performance in […]
Nikhil Sethi is Co-Founder of Adapt.ly, a social advertising platform company. AdExchanger.com: What gave you the idea for Adapt.ly? NS: I founded a company while studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University, focused on self-serve direct mail technology, and about 9 months in, I realized I wasn’t focused on the reasons I started […]
Vikram Sharma is CEO of ShopLocal, a multi-channel online services company. AdExchanger.com What problem is ShopLocal solving today? VS: ShopLocal solves the problem of achieving in-store traffic toward key promotions and deals in an age where consumers have multiple options to purchase that don’t require them to actually physically visit their local Walgreens or JCPenney. […]
Last Wednesday, WeShop, a consumer-focused, group buying network currently in private beta announced a $4.25 million Series A round of investment with participation from Jonathan Miller of News Corp, and Martin White, and Carlos Sala, “respectively the former Founder/CEO, and CFO, of Abacus Direct, which was sold to Doubleclick in 2000.” Read more. CEO Antony […]
Rapleaf announced a partnership with NetProspex, as Rapleaf will enhance NetProspex’ marketing contact database with “a social layer of data” with the goal of allowing “B2B marketers to successfully decipher the social demographics of business prospects and customers.” Read the release. Joel Jewitt, Rapleaf’s VP of Business Development, discussed the partnership and B2B social data. […]
