Twitter was the comeback kid in Q1. The company experienced its second consecutive quarter of profitability, with 21% YoY revenue growth to $665 million – $575 million of it thanks to advertising. Growth would have been higher – around 27% this quarter – if not for the headwind still blowing from the direction of the now fully […]
YouTube’s TrueView has trained viewers to count backward from five – and then click “skip.” It’s a now-ingrained behavior that traditional and even nontraditional publishers like Norway’s VGTV are trying to grapple with. That’s because pre-roll engagement rates are the pits – and they often have an unfortunate effect on the engagement rate for whatever content […]
Mediabong has designs on the US. The Paris-based video platform, which revealed a $5 million Series B round on Wednesday, plans to use the bulk of its funding to beef up operations out of its nascent New York office, where the headcount is slated to increase from two to around 10 sales and business development people […]
Devs: Yahoo is looking at you. On the heels of arguably lackluster Q1 2015 earnings and the week before is NewFront event in New York City, Yahoo revealed two video ad units on Wednesday. Native in-feed video and video app install ads will now appear in Yahoo’s digital magazines and apps, as well as on desktop and […]
Each day, 7 million fans tune in to YouTube to see bubbly video blogger Bethany Mota make breakfast or braid her hair. The breakout video star draws tweens eager for a taste of Mota’s fashion and beauty must-haves, averaging 100 million minutes of video watched per month. She’s equally attractive to brand advertisers, clinching campaigns […]
Inventory is where it’s at for RockYou. The company, which recently pivoted away from game publishing to focus on becoming a programmatic in-game video ad network, has raised $10 million in funding from FastPay, a sort of anti-VC that extends credit lines to digital media companies. It plans to use the money to buy up […]
Adap.tv, acquired by AOL six months ago, unveiled on Monday a new add-on to its Audience Path demand-side platform (DSP), called Audience Path for TV, to let advertisers and agencies apply more data to their linear TV ad buys. The release capitalizes on a trend in which data-driven ad buying on linear TV presents opportunities for […]
Content-distribution network Akamai sold its Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) business to Mediamath earlier this year. Many assumed the move marked the end of Akamai’s involvement in the ad business. Not so. Soon after it auctioned off its ADS assets, Akamai focused on video ads when it launched its Ad Integration Services in February. Part of […]
Adap.tv was not the only video company to have a good day yesterday. On the same day that AOL snapped up video-ad marketplace Adap.tv for $405 million, digital ad management provider DG saw its stock shoot up 25% to $10.31 at yesterday’s closing bell. Although DG rescheduled its earnings call from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday, […]
With Tremor Video taking its video-advertising technology company to the public markets this week – and YuMe preparing to follow suit — AdExchanger reached out to ad-tech industry veteran Dave Morgan to discuss the implications. Morgan, who founded TACODA and Real Media, has experienced the whims of the public markets. To be sure, Morgan has an interest […]
Among the key questions for video ad buyers are these two: Did anyone see my ad? And did my ad run where it was supposed to? Without a set of standardized measurements for viewability and verification, companies have been forced to cobble together various technologies to gain insight into their investments. Video ad server Vindico […]
The burning issues affecting digital advertising these days can be boiled down to handful of recurring themes: ad effectiveness and verification; “Do Not Track” and relevance; and whether social media extends a publisher’s content distribution — or merely fragments it. Given that video is a highly engaging form of media and easily trackable (via completion […]
Having built one of the early ad servers at Matchlogic, TruEffect CEO Ron Hill and his core team have deep experience in ad tech. Among the fruits of those ad serving days were patents that Hill says have become the backbone of his company’s first-party advertising technology today. To be clear, TruEffect isn’t a young […]
There’s a lot of talk about the need for online advertising to be less “obtrusive.” (Okay, that view is mostly coming from Microsoft with regard to the default “Do Not Track” feature in its latest Internet Explorer web browser. But still.) When it comes to video, the notion of user control has been a big […]
Australian media conglomerate Fairfax Metro Media has extended its existing relationship with Google DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange to focus on online video inventory. However, unlike most publishers, Fairfax is in the middle of trying to extend its ad platform, known as drx, to allow the company to buy — not sell — inventory tied to streaming […]
Earlier this month, streaming video distributor Ooyala raised its fifth funding round — $35 million from Telstra Applications and Ventures Group, the investment arm of Australia’s telecom giant, Telstra. In addition to giving Ooyala a big opening in Telstra’s home country, the move also signaled a new level of importance for Ooyala to try to […]
It’s been a year since photo ad network Pixazza morphed into Luminate, which a wider platform for sharing, indexing and monetizing publishers’ online images. The four-year-old Google Ventures-backed Mountain View company has steadily been rebuilding itself from an “AdSense for Images” into a platform for consumer-facing image apps, as Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards tells […]
Mark Trefgarne is Co-Founder and CEO of LiveRail, a video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start with a little background on you. How did your consultancy lead to video advertising technology? MT: We started LiveRail about four years ago, which came out of a consulting company that I was running in London. The founding team […]
For years, the television world has pivoted on the use of a reach and frequency metric known as the Gross Rating Point, a.k.a. the GRP (Wikipedia), for the buying of advertising time. As TRAFFIQ’s Eric Picard points out in a 2009 iMedia Connection article, “This currency enables immense substitutability of inventory, meaning that there is […]
Scott Ferber is CEO of TidalTV, a video advertising, optimization, and yield management solutions provider. Click below for the interview with Ferber or keep scrolling: Ad.com’s Influence on TidalTV What problem is TidalTV Solving? Targeting Across Devices The Big Picture for TidalTV Thoughts on RTB, DSP, Other Acronyms Engagement and Buying Metrics Addressable TV AdExchanger.com: […]
“The Video Audience” is a column written by members of the media community and focused on the evolving world of online video advertising. Today’s column is written by Cynthia Butler, Publisher Integration Engineer at Denver-based, SpotXchange, a video advertising technology company. I’ll give you two differences between display and video advertising: technology and people. Some […]
Yesterday, Adap.tv announced a new platform it’s calling “Adap.tv for Advertisers,” which it describes as a buy-side management system for online video advertising. The company says Interpublic Group‘s Mediabrands and its agency trading desk, Cadreon, is one of the first to leverage the new platform. Read the release. Adap.tv CEO Amir Ashkenazi discussed the announcement’s […]
Video ad marketplace SpotXchange – a portion of whose inventory is real-time biddable – announced the integration of a new optimization technology called “Otto” which it says will allow buyers to more efficiently buy video ads. In a release, the company claims that “it is the first video ad network to automatically optimize campaigns to […]
AdExchanger.com reached out to the video advertising, technology community for their predictions about the digital advertising ecosystem in 2011. Click a name below to begin, or scroll: Bill Day, CEO, Tremor Media Toby Gabriner, President, Adap.tv Scot McLernon, CRO, YuMe Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia Atul Patel, CEO, OneScreen Inc. Bill Day, CEO, Tremor Media As […]
Mike Shehan is CEO of SpotXchange, an online video advertising network. The company is announcing a new real-time bidding-enabled service for online video ads today. Read the release. AdExchanger.com: First, can you provide some background on SpotXchange? MS: SpotXchange is an online video advertising network that offers brand advertisers a scalable, efficient and measurable way […]
Video ad marketplace Adap.tv announced recently that it is seeing “a 92 percent average monthly growth rate for video ad views within its marketplace since the launch in February 2010”. Read the release. Adap.tv founder and VP of Product Teg Grenager provided some perspective on recent developments at his company. AdExchanger.com: Historically, there has been […]
Dan Greenberg is CEO of Sharethrough, a social video advertising and technology company. AdExchanger.com: Your bio notes that you were a teaching assistant in a Facebook class in Stanford in 2007. Why is this relevant to your new venture at Sharethrough? Also, gotta ask, how did you “grade” someone in a Facebook class? DG: The […]
Adam Singolda is CEO of Taboola, a video recommendation and advertising company. AdExchanger.com: It seems more and more content recommendation companies are getting into ads. Why does this make sense? AS: Advertisements that are suggested as content with high intent and context have long been the most productive and highest yielding online. Examples are Google […]
Publicis VivaKi’s Pool efforts appear to be paying off. ClickZ’s Jack Marshall reports that Google’s YouTube will add VivaKi’s Pool video ad format, known as the “ASq video advertising unit”, and joins Hulu, AOL, and Yahoo which had already announced adoption of the format in August. VivaKi’s video ad methodology allows consumers to select their […]
