Late last month, Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting System unveiled the Turner Branded Entertainment group within its Turner Digital Ad Sales division. At the heart of it is an integrated marketing solutions partnership with Will Ferrell-backed comedy site FunnyOrDie.com. In a sign of how close Turner and FOD will be on this venture, TBS is bringing […]
“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 written by Sacha Xavier, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. In my July column I wrote about the large number of mobile ad networks chasing a limited amount of advertiser demand. […]
When it comes to reaching consumers with mobile advertising, is there really a difference between an Apple iOS user and Android users? A poll commissioned a few weeks ago by mobile real-time bidding operator AdTheorent suggests that there is. Conducted by Quinnipiac University, the survey found that while Android-based smartphones were the most widely used […]
Norwest Venture Partners‘ Jeff Crowe doesn’t believe the shakeout of mergers and consolidation is over for ad technology. He should know as Admeld (acquired by Google) and Brand.net (acquired by Valassis) were NVP companies, and he and his venture firm remain significantly in the game with ad platform Turn. Even though M&A has slowed in 2012, […]
Top dogs from the four dominant agency trading desks took the stage at the BB King Blues Club this morning. They hit on a bunch of topics new and old, including “education” fatigue, incursions made by DSPs, and making audience trading part of the “fabric” of all agencies. We’ll present this one lick-by-lick in honor […]
Laura Holmes, is the Google product manager in charge of her company’s conversion tracking products among other responsibilities and is part of the Google Analytics team. Yesterday, Holmes announced on two Google blogs as well as at eMetrics, her company’s entry into the busy tag management space with Google Tag Manager – a new, free […]
Kurt Unkel, President of VivaKi Nerve Center, has been giving Phileas Fogg a run for his money lately as he travels the globe looking to ignite client solutions emanating from his Publicis-owned research and development unit. Last week, he discussed a range of topics with AdExchanger including his group’s agency trading desk solution, Audience on […]
Adobe has integrated two of its core digital marketing products – SiteCatalyst and AdLens (formerly Efficient Frontier). The integration will let advertisers take granular data out of SiteCatalyst and plug it into AdLens for use in search, social, and display ad campaign optimization. Data such as shopping cart abandonment and time on site can be […]
Yahoo is taking the wraps off a new contextual ad network powered by Media.net. The publisher offering goes by the catchy name Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads, though despite the reference to Microsoft’s search product, Redmond is not involved. Most people will interpret this a second attempt by Yahoo to create a competitor to Google’s […]
With experience in the Wall Street professional services world, Ampush CEO Jesse Pujji and his co-founders, Chris Amos and Nick Shah, have seen the big data of financial trading desks and their offshoots. And, that’s one reason the trio decided to move into the online ad business and start Ampush in 2010. Pujji told AdExchanger […]
