Even if TV ads aren’t available for real-time bidding — but that’s only a few years away, right? –Kantar Media is trying to interest agencies in using the kinds of instant readouts of viewing behavior that’s so much apart of online advertising right now. While Kantar is far from alone in trying to position itself […]
Getting so-called “pre-bid” data feeds from ad verification companies is becoming commonplace for ad networks and DSPs. As the name suggests, “pre-bid” verification screens out impressions at the server level prior to bidding, saving money on ad space that is either unacceptable to the buyer or not in view. So far agency trading desks don’t […]
Yesterday we covered a new segmentation capability from Nielsen that lets digital ad buyers reach web users based on their boob tube viewing patterns. (Read it) One thing we didn’t mention was MediaMath’s involvement in the new offering. In a story published today, Multichannel News notes Nielsen will use the demand-side platform to overlap view […]
A new Nielsen targeting product aims to let advertisers buy online audiences based on their TV consumption patterns. It’s an extension of what the measurement firm has already done linking CPG purchase data to online media, and another mile marker on Nielsen’s road map for a digital media marketplace geared to the needs of broadcast […]
TARGUSinfo and its AdAdvisor unit appear to have settled in as NeuStar Information Services. The implications of last November’s acquisition of TARGUSinfo by Neustar (valued at $650 million) reach far beyond data for display ad targeting. Yet, considering Neustar’s data and some of its other units such as IP address targeter Quova, new areas of […]
Analytics is among the most contested areas in digital advertising, with ad agencies, marketers, established vendors, and startups all falling over each other to provide the truest form of ad effectiveness. The landscape is dotted with providers big and small that lay claim to proprietary measurement methodologies. Many of the services are difficult for clients […]
Online measurement company comScore is taking the patent battle to three smaller analytics companies focused on ad effectiveness solutions: DoubleVerify, AdSafe Media and Moat. The new lawsuits use what appears to be at least four of the same patents comScore acquired rights to when it was sued by, and settled with, measurement giant Nielsen in 2011 […]
Digital ad veteran JP Maheu recently made the jump from agency land to the startup realm, assuming the post of CEO at social TV analytics provider Bluefin Labs last week. Read the release. Maheu spent six years at the independent Razorfish, retiring in 2003 after guiding the sale of the company to SBI (before its […]
Social popularity metrics are losing fans on the client side, suggests a new survey of Association of National Advertisers members. In its “Digital/Social Media Survey” of 224 client-side marketers, the ANA notes “Facebook ‘likes’ or Twitter ‘re-tweets’ fell to the bottom of the list” of preferred metrics, with just 30 percent and 39 percent of […]
Carriers, devices and regulation – mobile targeting today can be a speed bump for marketers and publishers who drive to address or create scalable audiences. Placed founder and CEO David Shim believes understanding location data is the key to mobile targeting and Placed’s analytics will help open it up as location becomes the new web […]
In the past year, Baby product and mattress brand Newton Baby has put all its media channels through a new testing regime for incrementality. It was a revelatory experience.
Colgate-Palmolive redesigned all of its consumer-facing sites and apps to make it easier to collect opted-in first-party user data.
History can be a burden for a brand, if it means that company is too set in its ways to pivot and try new things. Just consider e.l.f. Cosmetics, the digitial-first, social-native brand that made good.
Digital-native brands need to figure out how to win in retail shelves. They’re finding it difficult, to say the least.
A group of 20 web app developers sent a letter to the CMA claiming the regulator’s proposed remedies for increasing competition among mobile browsers do not address barriers to entry for mobile web extensions on iOS and Android.
“There are billions of additional screens outside of mobile phones,” says Dan Page, TikTok’s global head of partnerships and new screens. “We want to be in all of them.”
