Blackstone made one of the splashiest digital media deals of the past year last week when it acquired the B2B media and mar tech company International Data Group (IDG). IDG might not attract your average consumer. but its portfolio of some 300 tech and IT publications, including CSO, TechHive and Computerworld, fuels one of the […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brienna Pinnow, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. Advanced TV advertising promises marketers better targeting and measurement capabilities, underpinned by rich viewer data. Not only are Americans flocking to the services and devices that deliver […]
The target audience for Lenovo’s Data Center Group is the definition of niche: chief information officers at Fortune 500 companies who are in the market for complex storage, networking and server solutions. To reach that niche, Lenovo has increasingly turned to targeted digital and social ads. “We’re not interested in big, general blasts of information […]
B2B advertisers historically have been slower to adopt programmatic than their B2C brethren. That lag is because B2B was mostly marketed through a company’s owned properties, lead forms or offline events. The market for B2B exchange data also wasn’t very robust. But as B2B publishers expand their programmatic offerings and the buy side adopts more […]
Brand advertising is becoming a necessary ingredient for B2B success. While US telco CenturyLink sees two-thirds of revenue come from B2B services, consumer-oriented strategies like a national TV campaign and sports sponsorships are taking a larger share of CenturyLink’s budgets, said CMO Bill Hurley. Consumer branding increasingly “lays the foundation” for effective B2B sales, Hurley […]
To borrow a phrase from baseball, B2B programmatic advertising is still in the early innings. A couple of factors have kept B2B marketers from fully adopting the media strategy as rapidly as their B2C brethren. “The biggest difference in B2B and B2C programmatic is the value of the inventory,” said Tony Uphoff, CEO of Business.com. […]
