By Sarah Sluis, Ryan Joe, Allison Schiff, Alison Weissbrot and Rae Paoletta Programmatic is expanding, becoming a glossier way to transact and add value to both the buy and sell sides. “We are moving rapidly into a programmatic-first world,” said Sal Candela, president of enterprise partnerships at Omnicom. “There is a surge of quality inventory […]
While many advertisers are shying away from news content due to brand safety concerns, News UK is making the case that buying ads alongside emotionally charged content drives stronger results. The publisher of The Sun and The Times loaded its version of News Corp.’s News IQ platform with data about readers’ opinions, emotions and preferences. […]
Want to tap News Corp.’s first-party data to target ads across all of its properties? As of Tuesday, you can, thanks to the release of News IQ, which is a managed service (for now) ad platform owned and operated by News Corp. News IQ unifies inventory from publications as varied as The Wall Street Journal, […]
The New York Post has a love-hate relationship with pre-roll. While pre-roll typically commands high CPMs when sold directly, too often it’s hard to monetize because it’s either in short supply or locked up in private marketplaces. Sometimes the supply issue is technical. The New York Post recently found it had missed half of its […]
News Corp. is shifting allegiance from Rubicon Project to AppNexus. News Corp. offloaded its entire 8% investment in Rubicon Project, or 3.9 million shares, according to an SEC filing on Friday. Last September, News Corp. invested $10 million in AppNexus. It also signed a master services agreement, enabling its publications to switch over to AppNexus […]
News Corp.’s acquisition of video ad platform Unruly last month is already bearing fruit. Unruly has rolled out a new in-article video format priced on cost-per-completed-view (CPCV). Out of News Corp.’s roster of publications, MarketWatch, The Sun and News.com.au in the UK and Australia will be first to deploy the format. Unruly will also sell the format directly to […]
Merkle, which bills itself as one of the industry’s largest privately held agencies, is moving beyond database services into tech territory. The company on Monday launched MerkleOne, its version of a people-based marketing platform for advertisers and publishers, including inaugural sell-side partner News Corp. “M1 will enable advertisers to bring their own data, anonymize IDs […]
In a move that illustrates the fast-growing importance of programmatic video, News Corp. will acquire UK-based Unruly for $90 million, the companies revealed Wednesday. News Corp. will pay as much as $86 million more for Unruly’s social video advertising platform, contingent on meeting certain performance goals. The deal gives News Corp. access to Unruly’s data […]
A year after unveiling the Wall St. Journal’s private exchange, WSJ Audex, its parent company News Corp has expanded that model to cover the rest of its global publications. The News Corp Global Exchange, as its known, won’t replace WSJ Audex, but will instead serve as an umbrella over that offering and will include inventory […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hearst Has A Billion Dollars And you don’t. The NY Post’s Keith Kelly writes that the replacement of SVP Ronald Doerfler by Mitchell Scherzer may signal the beginning of a more aggressive digital acquisition strategy as the company looks to grow new revenue stream […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Hires – Shows TerminalOne Screenshots MediaMath announced Monday that it has hired former DoubleClick-er and (most recently) CTO of Travel Ad Network, Anthony Katsur, as “General Manager, Platform.” Also, more news from MediaMath as the company sent AdExchanger.com exclusive screenshots of the new […]
