The Sell Sider

If you know the brand Ibotta, you’re likely thinking of the popular cash-back app. Users upload receipts of in-store purchases and redeem credit for products listed for promotion in the app. But while that business still exists – and still represents the majority of Ibotta’s revenue – the company is shifting from DTC app to B2B2C performance marketing network.

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro de Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Ad tech stocks are soaring even as regulators clamp down on ad tech, especially in Europe. How can we understand this irrational behavior? Let’s backtrack. […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written from the perspective of the sell side of the digital media community. App creator-turned-developer advocate David Barnard’s career trajectory is one typical of Apple’s App Store, but also exceptional to the App Store. A recording engineer with no software expertise, Barnard built a profitable stable of mobile apps, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. In the past two weeks, I’ve been to two supply-side platform (SSP) summits and spoken in depth to more than a dozen publishers. I’ve learned a lot. In short, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Think of PicsArt as the love child of Instagram and Photoshop in app form. Advertising and in-app purchases make up the bulk of its revenue, but the photo-sharing and sticker creation app is branching out with an ad-free subscription […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an independent audience strategy consultant.  In a world of “popcorn data,” quantity and reach are more important than quality and depth, and users are seen as “data cows” rather than customers. […]

Vevo uses YouTube for a large chunk of its distribution and viewership. A joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, Vevo creates and distributes more than 330,000 music videos across YouTube and its owned-and-operated channels. Vevo gets access to YouTube’s massive audience, and YouTube gets a cut of the […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an independent audience strategy consultant.  As media brands try to figure out their long-term monetization strategies, which may include paywalls, micropayments or alliances, many still heavily rely on display advertising, mainly […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Lee Fentress wasn’t always sold on programmatic. But he’s changed his tune since joining the Los Angeles Times as VP of ad sales a little more than three months ago. “I came in pretty skeptical of programmatic, really wanting to do less programmatic and […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jana Meron, vice president of programmatic and data strategy at Business Insider. Jana will present “Insider View From The Publisher” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference Oct. 25-26. Ad fraud is a much-discussed headache for […]