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User Counts And Revenue Tumble At Twitter

Twitter’s revenue and user growth story – especially US user growth – is grounded in a harsh reality. Overall revenue for the quarter came in at $574 million, down 5% year over year. Ad revenue was also down 8% on a YoY basis, clocking in at $489 million. This is the third quarter in a... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // July 27th, 2017 //

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Sovrn CEO Explains Why He Laid Off 14% Of Workforce

Sovrn CEO Walter Knapp sat down in a conference room on June 27 and told 27 staffers it would be their last day. Knapp told AdExchanger the layoffs were proactive. Before the layoffs, the company had grown from 50 people to more than 250 staffers in two years. It raised $18 million in August 2015,... Continue reading »

by Sarah Sluis // July 18th, 2017 //

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Facebook Shares More Audience Data Via Carefully Controlled 'Clean Rooms'

Ask Facebook for access to its data and the official answer is going to be, “Nope.” But under certain circumstances, a limited number of advertisers and agencies are tapping into impression-level Facebook campaign delivery data, AdExchanger has learned. The data-sharing arrangements are euphemistically referred to as “clean rooms.” These clean rooms are safe spaces where... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // July 18th, 2017 //

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Time Inc. Overhauls Analytics To Make Content Creation Data-Driven

Time Inc. knows that producing magazine content requires data – like seeing how many issues sell based on the cover story. But digital allows for an additional level of analysis the magazine-native publisher hadn’t fully embraced. Which is why Time Inc. pruned down its more than five dozen analytics tools and focused on just a... Continue reading »

by Sarah Sluis // July 14th, 2017 //

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Verst Builds Tech For Small Pubs Searching For Diversified Revenue

For smaller publishers or influencers, ad revenue isn’t always the strongest path to monetization. Many want direct relationships with consumers. They want to stake out their own URL to build on a social media presence. On their own site, they prefer to charge for subscriptions, accept donations or sell products in order to support their... Continue reading »

by Sarah Sluis // July 12th, 2017 //

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Shazam And Waze Rethink Mobile Creative

Mobile creative is a Catch-22. While rich media units are engaging, they’re expensive to make and tougher to scale than programmatic banners. But banners look bad on mobile and get a bad rap for ruining the user experience. Shazam and Waze are two apps championing beautiful mobile creative, but they can do so by relying... Continue reading »

by Alison Weissbrot // July 11th, 2017 //

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SAP’s CMO: Every Company Is A Technology Company

As the marketing chief at a sprawling enterprise software company, SAP CMO Maggie Chan Jones has unique insight into marketer pain points. At the top of the list: fragmentation. “There are thousands of marketing technology providers across different marketing functions,” Jones said. “One of the biggest headaches a marketer has is trying to sell one... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 26th, 2017 //

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Are Buyers Ready To Pull The Trigger On Ads.Txt?

The public comment period for ads.txt, the initiative by IAB Tech Lab to cut down on domain-spoofed traffic, is now over. But are marketers, their agencies and DSPs ready to adopt? Yes and no. To be fair, it’s still quite early. Publishers are actively creating ads.txt files and DSPs are scanning them. The IAB Tech... Continue reading »

by Sarah Sluis // June 22nd, 2017 //

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Snap’s Ad Tech Platform Ahead Of Facebook In The Early Days, Buyers Say

For Snap, there are benefits to being a latecomer to ad tech. The app, which entered the programmatic playing field last year when it launched APIs and self-serve tools that allow marketers to place automated buys on its platform, is avoiding many mistakes made by a predecessor that it's often compared to: Facebook. “Snap has been... Continue reading »

by Alison Weissbrot // June 22nd, 2017 //

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Cannes: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Rethinks Ad Tech Acquisition Strategy

Twitter’s ad tech fortunes haven’t been great. Most recently, it took its 479-million-dollar acquisition TellApart for a long walk behind the barn. However, Twitter isn’t giving up on ad tech, at least not as an investor, said co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey at a Wednesday panel hosted by Omnicom’s OMD in Cannes. “We’re definitely not... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // June 21st, 2017 //

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