Ellen Pao Resigns From Reddit
Ellen Pao resigned as interim chief executive officer of Reddit after a user revolt at the online forum, the company announced. Steve Huffman, a Reddit...
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Private Equity Firm HGGC Plants Stake In Marketing Platform Selligent
AdExchanger | The data and mar-tech deals march on. Midmarket private equity firm HGGC, which groomed hybris into a $1 billion-plus acquisition target for SAP,...
The Reddit Revolt of 2015, explained for normals
Reddit, the collector of Internet ephemera and petri dish of memes, is in full meltdown mode. The self-proclaimed homepage of the Internet devolved into chaos in...
AOL Wants To Be No. 3; Snapchat Changes Ad Pricing
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No. 3 In Ad Tech? AOL is working hard to differentiate itself from other...
Google Claims YouTube Ads More Viewable Than Standard Video Ads
Just over half (54%) of all video ads across the web are viewable compared to YouTube’s 91% average viewability rate, according to a Google report...
Failed Comcast-TWC Merger Asserts TV Audience Arms Race
The $45 billion Comcast-Time Warner Cable (TWC) deal is officially kaput. If the merger had materialized, it would have created an unsurpassable media and cable...
BuzzFeed Restores Vanished Posts, Says It Didn’t Delete Them Over Advertiser Pressure
BuzzFeed restored two deleted posts on Friday after Gawker raised questions about whether the viral news and entertainment site removed them because they were critical...
WideOrbit Unveils Programmatic Digital Radio Beta Program
The Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) will be the inaugural media company to trial WideOrbit’s programmatic radio beta program, released Friday. SBS is the largest publicly...
Do Not Track Death Knell: Protocol No Longer Default Setting In Microsoft Browsers
Microsoft has reversed its approach to Do Not Track (DNT) and will no longer make it the default setting on the Internet Explorer browser and...
Mobile Platform Vibes Launches WalletAds, Links Banner Ads To In-Store Sales
Mobile marketing platform Vibes thinks all of the fanfare around Apple Pay might bring mobile wallets into the mainstream. Thus, it rolled out a related...
The Justine Sacco redemption tour: Too little too late?
Justine Sacco made headlines a little over year ago when a very ill-conceived tweet she sent burst into viral flames. Sacco was the head of...
IPG CEO Roth Emphasizes “Agnostic” Programmatic Model
During Interpublic Group’s (IPG) Q4 and year-end earnings call on Friday, chief Michael Roth emphasized – as he did after Q3 – the holding company’s...
Digiday Podcast Ep. 1: Fleeky Friday
At Digiday we don’t just cover the future of digital media, but we try to live it as well. We’re proud to debut the Digiday Podcast, a...
Who Is Prashant Fuloria? Yahoo Puts Flurry Exec In Charge Of All Ad Products
Yahoo has promoted Flurry executive Prashant Fuloria to head up all advertising products, the company confirmed on Friday. Fuloria’s title is SVP of Advertising Products, a job with...
Battle of the Holiday Platform Hulks as Twitter, Facebook Seek Holiday Season Advertising
What company is getting the lion’s share of holiday marketing attention this year? It’s Facebook, according to recent surveys. A mere two years ago, 51...
DMA Digital Diary: How web impacts our lives
After a leave of three weeks, I am reporting back to the digital world, just when the world seems to be taking off for the...
