Viewers are switching up how they watch their favorite shows. 2021 was a record year for CTV. Now, at least one CTV device can be found in over 80% of American homes, and CTV ad budgets are expected to double by 2026, according to GroupM’s most recent industry forecast. But the key to unlocking those […]
Samsung Ads is adding to its AVOD toolkit. To provide brands a way to buy media using their own first-party data sets, it set up the Samsung Onboarding Partner Program. Built with data management platform (DMP) partners, the program allows advertisers to plan and activate advanced TV campaigns based on these audience insights. The program is […]
Wine brand Josh Cellars doesn’t have a taste for traditional media. “We made a choice to stay away from broadcast TV and cable, at least for now,” said Renato Reyes, CMO of Josh Cellars’ parent company, Deutsch Family Wine and Spirits, whose portfolio also includes more household names. Deutsch is the US distributor of Yellow […]
Edmunds.com is revving up its audience data strategy through an exclusive hookup with Oracle Data Cloud. The partnership, announced Thursday, gives the car shopping info site the ability to scale its efforts around audience-based buys, said Jennifer Dodez, Edmund’s executive director of programmatic and data solutions. “We’ve had a lot of demand for our data […]
ComScore has added mobile ad network rankings to Media Metrix. The new reporting will be called Mobile Metrix and become part of the overall Media Metrix product suite. Until now, Media Metrix was focused on the desktop side of things, providing info on website audiences, including consumption habits, demographics and cross-site visitation for more than […]
The Apple product development machine continues to produce new instrumentation for the hungry, digital hoards as last week’s announcement of its third-generation iPad appeared as anticipated as any of its iPad predecessors. Though not revolutionary given the presence of the first two, the new iPad may present unique opportunity to various parts of the digital […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Good Times The “News” vertical saw benefits from online display last quarter according to the New York Times. On the earnings call with Wall Street, Times CEO Janet Robinson said, “Breaking down the News Media Group into its component properties at The Times […]
As data is appended to display media in real-time auctions, certain “old” ways of doing digital business may warrant a re-examination. AdExchanger.com thought “first look” might be one of those tactics that deserves review. But before we begin, don’t know what “first look” is? Into the weeds we go… Let’s say you’re a publisher and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WordPress Federated Federated Media (FM) is already putting its newly-acquired Lijit ad network tech to work as it announced yesterday a potentially big deal with Automattic to represent WordPress.com publishers. An FM spokesman tells Douglas Quenqua of ClickZ, “The focus initially is on the […]
Brendan Moorcroft is CEO at Mediabrands Audience Platform, a unit of Mediabrands and part of agency holding company Interpublic Group. Earlier this week, Mediabrands announced the acquisition of social agency Spring Creek Group. Read more on PaidContent. Moorcroft discussed the acquisition, audience buying and the strategy ahead for Mediabrands Audience Platform. AdExchanger.com: First, can you […]
For years, the television world has pivoted on the use of a reach and frequency metric known as the Gross Rating Point, a.k.a. the GRP (Wikipedia), for the buying of advertising time. As TRAFFIQ’s Eric Picard points out in a 2009 iMedia Connection article, “This currency enables immense substitutability of inventory, meaning that there is […]
Scott Olrich is CMO of Responsys, an email and cross-channel, digital marketing firm. The company recently announced its new display product here. Olrich discussed the product and the company’s overall strategy with AdExchanger.com. Why is Responsys moving into display advertising now? What is it that you are seeing that is causing you to add this […]
Have you noticed? The ad tech, audience buying ecosystem is shrinking. For all the talk about how complicated the ecosystem is and how many companies there still there are, it’s smaller than it was a year or two ago if you look at the number of VC-backed startups in the ad tech space. I did […]
Following up on a conversation with AdExchanger.com last year, Sarah Baehr, svp, director of digital publishing solutions at MediaVest, discussed how digital is continuing to transform the magazine publisher. AdExchanger.com: In the past year, what has been a key, emerging, digital trend with publishers? SB: The release of the tablet. In any article about tablets, […]
Audience buying in PC-based display has been cranking for years but with special restrictions in mobile around identifying the user, is mobile audience buying even possible? With this challenge in mind, AdExchanger.com asked a range of representatives on the mobile side of the digital ad ecosystem the following question: “Is audience buying possible in mobile […]
On Wednesday, ShareThis announced that former Google AdSense exec Kurt Abrahamson (and most recently CEO of SocialMedia.com which was sold to LivingSocial) would be taking over as CEO and former CEO Tim Schigel would become chairman of ShareThis’ board. Read more on the ShareThis blog. Abrahamson discussed his new role and the opportunity ahead for […]
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 […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, ATOM, at Razorfish. Advertisers often feel their brand is their most valuable asset and spend lots of time, effort and money to build and maintain it. Of course an advertiser would know their audience, right? Right, but the real question is if […]
Murthy Nukala is CEO of Adchemy, a demand-side buying platform. AdExchanger.com: What is “de-averaging” as it relates to digital advertising and how does Adchemy “de-average”? Would you say “addressable media” is an equivalent? MN: De-averaging summarizes a trend toward increasing the relevance of digital advertising. Today’s dominant online advertising model primarily relies on a one-size-fits-all approach […]
You would think that the digital advertising industry has found religion given all the talk about the legendary “Holy Grail” these days. Enormous change is occurring all at once creating opportunity across the board for publishers, advertisers, ad tech companies, data providers and even the occasional blogger. As a result, the quest is “in-process” as […]
Dave Morgan is CEO of Simulmedia, a television marketing company that optimizes the effectiveness of “on-air” program promotion. AdExchanger.com: Have you tired of the online ad business, where you’ve already had success (Tacoda, Real Media)? Confess – don’t you miss banner ads? What prompted you to start Simulmedia? DM: I am not tired of the […]
