WPP Group digital agency Possible hopes to bulk up its targeting and performance-based advertising abilities to bridge earned and paid media channels by partnering with Google’s social technology tool, Wildfire. Read the release. Jason Burby, Possible’s chief performance marketing officer, cited Wildfire’s recent integrations with Google Analytics and DoubleClick as the chief reasons the agency […]
With a media background at McCann Erickson and venture financing raised this past April from Redpoint Ventures and WPP Digital among others, Miaozhen Systems CEO Wei Zhu sounds like your typical “Western” entrepreneur. Calling his 310-person firm “the Nielsen of China,” Zhu claims Beijing-based Miaozhen already has 80% market share for online measurement – with DoubleClick […]
Online retailer Indochino uses a variety of digital ad tactics to promote its custom-made men’s suits, including search and email marketing, mobile outreach and retargeting on the Facebook Exchange. Along with attribution software company Convertro, Indochino brings together all these marketing channels and determines what is working and what is most valuable, said Antonio Guzman, […]
Online display advertising is still undervalued when it comes to attribution based on last click data, but during the holiday season 2012, last click attribution was slightly more accurate, according to marketing intelligence company Visual IQ. The company analyzed cost per acquisitions for Visual IQ clients for the time period August to October 2012, and […]
“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 by Heather Pidgeon, VP of Services at iProspect. As most of us know, fear of the unknown often comes from a lack of understanding. Due to the many new and unfamiliar factors […]
The debate around multi-channel attribution is perhaps the essential marketing problem of this decade. Can you really optimize ad spend on a cross-channel basis, and at the impression level? Not yet. Will you be able to? A lot of smart money says yes, but it’s going to be a long and bumpy ride. The most […]
Jon Baron is CEO of tag management technology firm, TagMan. He recently spoke to AdExchanger about his business and industry trends. AdExchanger: Tag management versus data management platforms (DMPs) – what do you see as the difference today? Is Tagman in the DMP space? JON BARON: Whenever I talk to industry experts, they seem to […]
It’s a common refrain that last click attribution is broken, but what should replace it has yet to be resolved. Algorithmic attribution modeling is perhaps the leading candidate, and vendors such as Visual IQ, Convertro, and Adometry are competing to provide solutions in this area. But these attribution specialists still struggle to make fractional attribution […]
Online analytics provider Quantcast is unveiling a new self-service tool for its brand targeting solution, Quantcast Advertise for Branding. After months of beta, starting today publishers and advertisers can better manage deals directly based on specified audiences. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman told AdExchanger the goal is to be viewed as the company that makes real-time bidding and […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Jeremy Stanley is SVP Product and Data Sciences for Collective. As an industry we have largely concluded that existing measurement solutions (CTR, view-through and click-through conversion) have glaring flaws. And so we have […]
