Leila Brillson spoke with AdExchanger about The Onion’s marketing strategy and the unique challenges – and opportunities – that come with monetizing the infamous satirical news site.
When Andrew McKechnie left the role of global creative director at Apple to become Verizon’s first-ever chief creative officer in February 2017, he had a tall order. McKechnie, who reports directly to Verizon CMO Diego Scotti, was tasked with developing the brand’s own in-house creative agency. Named 140, after the group’s digs at 140 West […]
What if your media agency made your creative agency obsolete? Spark Foundry, which formed this year when Publicis Media retired the Mediavest Spark brand, is blurring the line between media and creative to give its clients a better chance of success. With the rise of sponsored content and social media, it makes sense for media and […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Marc Schwartz, who is EVP, Global Director of Performance Analytics at McCann Worldgroup. I recently left Cannes, where the majority of the Lions were awarded to creative agencies. Creative agencies […]
Seattle-area creative shop, POP, recently collaborated with Microsoft to create a Games for Windows Marketplace as the digital agency was tasked with engaging the frenetic audience of online games. Read the release. Nick Theil, art director on this project for POP, discussed the ins and outs. AdExchanger.com: From a creative standpoint, how do you balance […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Grabbing TiVo Data According to Todd Spangler of Multichannel News, Google is looking to “combine second-by-second set-top data from TiVo with data from Dish Network, which will let the Web giant track the viewing habits associated with more than 5 million TV sets […]
How will agencies survive if there is no agency of record? After reading a recent Advertising Age story from Kunur Patel about “the dropping” of three digital agencies of record in favor of a competition of ideas between three others, one might justifiably wonder how is the agency going to survive in this climate. Have […]
Gustav von Sydow is CEO and Founder of Burt, an advertising software company and makers of “Rich,” a campaign analytics tool focused on creative agencies. AdExchanger.com: Burt recently presented “Rich” at DEMO ’09. Why was it chosen to present? Can you discuss the value proposition? GvS: Right now, we think of Rich as an educational […]
Caleb Hill is SVP of Product at Unicast. AdExchanger.com: Given the competitive marketplace in rich media ad serving, where do you see Unicast fitting and how do you differentiate? CH: Unicast is an established interactive advertising and marketing technology company serving more than 120 top online publishers and advertising agencies around the globe. We have […]
