Move Fast And Break Things: Holding Company Shape Shifts Of 2016
AdExchanger | For the big six holding companies, 2016 was a year of acquisitions, restructures, reviews and leadership shakeups, centering expertise around data and digital....
Category: Data Driven Advertising
Elf On The Shelf: 2016 Ad Tech Edition
AdExchanger | “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...
New Years Resolution For Publishers: Ditch The Q4 Craziness
AdExchanger | “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Allison Mezzafonte,...
LATAM Ad Market to Reach £34bn; Brazil Has a Quarter of Top100 YouTube Channels
The last LATAM RoundUp of the year brings the following news: LATAM ad market is expected to reach £34.24bn in 2016, according to eMarketer; Brazil...
The Year Header Bidding Went Mainstream
AdExchanger | 2016 was the year that header bidding crossed over and became a disruptive force in the ad industry. The wave of publisher...
Exchanges Downplay Methbot’s Impact, But The Fallout Will Extend Into 2017
AdExchanger | On Tuesday, White Ops exposed a sophisticated browser-based botnet called Methbot that was reportedly stealing somewhere between $3 million and $5 million of...
Grabr Connects Community With Global Commerce – And Collects Data Along The Way
AdExchanger | This is the ninth installment of Home Screen, a series of profiles on mobile pubs and apps and the devs who make them...
Why 2016 Was The Beginning of The End of The Current Ad Tech Cycle
There was a lot of M&A this year in advertising technology. According to <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DSPbhH5hmJiN02Xu3SbU6PngqCkZ_lcv9ZYlfHxJBMM/edit#gid=0″>Eric Franchi’s ad tech M&A tracker, there were eighteen acquisitions in...
Why Brands Are Getting It All Wrong on Instagram
Instagram is one of the fastest growing social media platforms, with more than 500 million active users. And, according to recent research by eMarketer, the...
Methbot controversy; Native Advertising Grows Rapidly
ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Methbot controversy; Native advertising grows rapidly; Nielsen...
Comic: "We’re investing in A.I."
AdExchanger | A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… AdExchanger: Origins AdExchanger: Crisis In Ad City (Part I) AdExchanger: Crisis...
Conversant Finally Converges? Epsilon-Owned Ad Tech Company Unveils Integrated Stack
AdExchanger | After being acquired by Epsilon, Conversant had two big challenges. First, continue combining its own disparate technologies into a single stack. Second, get...
Why The 2017 TV Upfronts Could Be A Buyer’s Market
AdExchanger | Maureen Bosetti, the chief investment officer for IPG Mediabrands’ Initiative, will discuss dynamics for this year’s upfronts alongside other TV power players at...
Nielsen Acquires VisualDNA; Consumers Are Unhappy With Samsung OTT Ads
AdExchanger | Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Buy One, Get One Nielsen is on a Christmas shopping spree. After acquiring content...
Yieldmo Study Uncovers Consumer Sentiment on the Current State of Mobile Advertising, Identifying the Need for Better-Designed Mobile Ad Formats
User-friendly ad formats were preferred by two-thirds of U.S. consumers, which drove higher unaided brand recall for advertisers and improved brand favorability for both advertiser...
Marketers Need to Move Past ‘Hidebound’ Metrics: Q&A with Lon Otremba, CEO, Bidtellect
Native programmatic has experienced significant growth in 2016, yet confusion still exists across the industry as to how to define it and, more importantly, how...
