Black Friday arrives in Britain, and Brits are bemused
Brits have begrudgingly come to accept that Black Friday is probably here to stay in the U.K. Ever since Amazon.co.uk brought the event to the...
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Rubicon CEO On Adding “Guaranteed” To Automation
It’s been a busy week for Rubicon Project. It acquired programmatic direct players iSocket and Shiny Ads on Monday, adding guaranteed capabilities to its platform....
Streaming Video Services Pile On, With Amazon Reportedly The Latest
Amazon’s rumored development of an ad-supported video-streaming service was resurrected Friday when the New York Post reported the ecommerce company’s launch of a “Netflix killer”...
More Turkey, Stuffing and Mobile Sales, Please
According to new research from Adobe, mobile sales on Thanksgiving day this year are expected to increase to 31%, up a whopping 10% from last...
Facebook Cuts Brands’ Reach Once Again
Facebook is becoming even more pay-to-play for brands. Facebook announced Friday afternoon that it would begin curtailing the reach of brands’ unpaid, or organic, posts...
Forrester Wave: Platforms, Commerce Companies Vie For Top Attribution Vendor Title
Considering two of the usual pure-play suspects in Forrester’s Cross-Channel Attribution Wave (Convertro and Adometry) were snapped up by AOL and Google on the very...
Facebook Gives People a New Way to ‘Turn Down’ Annoying Brands
Facebook is giving people more control over whose content occupies their news feed on the social network, arguably the web’s most prized real estate. People...
E-Commerce Is So Huge Now in China, Some Brands Skip Opening an Actual Store
When British fashion retailer Topshop debuted in China, guests at the Beijing launch event tried on outfits and posed for selfies with red London buses...
It’s Official: Snapchat Says That Ads Are Coming
Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging app, is officially taking the advertising plunge. In a blog post on Friday, the Los Angeles-based company said it was introducing...
Visible Measures Inks SSP Deals To Drive Programmatic Native
Visible Measures has forged a number of supply-side integrations with AdsNative, TripleLift and DistroScale, adding “thousands” of publisher supply sources as a result of the deal, revealed Friday....
Nick Denton and Michael Wolff square off on privacy, journalism
When Gawker founder Nick Denton and media critic-provocateur Michael Wolff get in a room together, things are bound to get interesting. The two talked privacy...
MAGNA Adopts Undertone’s ‘Virtuoso,’ A Programmatic Platform With Creative Chops
Following ad network Undertone’s summer snap-up of programmatic exchange Upfront Digital Media, the company rolled out on Friday a programmatic platform called Virtuoso. The platform is part...
The Force Is With Mobile as ‘Star Wars Rebels’ TV Series Has Digital Debut
A long time ago, in a galaxy dominated by network TV, people gathered to watch a new show on a fixed day and time. The...
From the comments: Who is really to blame for agency unhappiness?
On Friday, Digiday published a piece about why agency employees seemed to be getting unhappier by the minute. Reasons varied: from fundamental changes in the way...
TubeMogul Gets The Nielsen Mobile OCR Stamp Of Approval
Who cares where a video runs? As long as an advertiser can accurately measure that video’s reach, the question itself becomes somewhat moot. And now...
Samsung Jumps On the Ice Bucket Bandwagon to Promote Its Galaxy Phone
Dozens of major corporations have jumped on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge bandwagon, releasing videos featuring their executives doused in frigid water for the viral...
