March Madness

At the risk of getting dorky with sports metaphors, DTC agency Rain the Growth already has a game plan to make sure its programmatic placements are a slam dunk.

Ampersand – a local TV sales consortium co-owned by cable companies Comcast, Charter and Cox – rolled out new audience segments for brands to target sports fans based on the type of sports they enjoy watching.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snapped For Cash  Snap is beta testing an ad revenue-sharing program with creators, Insider reports. Since competing creator programs on social media platforms have been falling flat, Snap’s got a fresh influx of influencer demand on its hands. For example, creators complain that […]

Supplemental insurance isn’t sexy. But with the right media strategy, even insurance brands can engage new (and younger) audiences.

Amit Chaturvedi, EVP of revenue and operations and product management for Turner, will speak at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference on April 10-11 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. At Turner, Amit Chaturvedi’s job is to support ad sales and drive revenue. He’s the guy responsible for vetting vendor partners and building a stack to ensure the […]

While live sports events like March Madness are TV’s bulwark, money is sloshing into digital and mobile and fraudsters are looking to score. “This is the rule of thumb: Where there’s money, there’s a motive,” said Patrick Murray, VP of product at fraud-detection and analytics company DataVisor. But certain events or times of the year […]

March Madness equals mobile madness, according to mobile audience targeting platform Jumptap. As live sporting events increase web traffic from smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, Jumptap expects a significant mobile bump during NCAA basketball tournament. “Whether they are editing brackets, sharing insights on social networks, or watching live games during lunch breaks, March Madness […]