XM Asia acquires major stake in Designercity
Hong Kong – XM Asia Pacific, part of the WPP group, has acquired a majority stake in Hong Kong digital consultancy Designercity for an undisclosed...
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ATS London Agenda, and Why the Industry is Moving On
The obsession around consolidation has grown from a mild din to full-on shouting match over the past couple of months. The amount of hackneyed pieces...
Airbnb Wants You to be a Vine Cinematographer
Calling all Vine artists. Airbnb is asking its fans to help make what it’s touting as the first-ever film made entirely of Vine videos. The...
OwnerIQ Tool Shows Advertisers How their Online Budgets Affect Retail Customers
Brand Impact Study shows advertisers the changes in products viewed within retailer websites as a result of their online campaigns BOSTON – Advertisers who wonder what...
Ad-Juster, Inc. – Makes it onto Inc. Magazine’s List of 500/5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America
Ad-Juster, Inc. has made it into the top 200 of Inc. Magazine’s list of America’s fastest growing companies and also ranks #19 among software companies...
Ad Guy Gives PR Firm Lesson in Power of PR
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post was updated after The Council on Public Relations came to its senses. The public relations industry, like all marketing, is in...
Corporate VC And Agencies; Native Reviews
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Corporate VC And Agencies On his Reaction Wheel blog, Neu Venture Capital investor Jerry...
Microsoft Reboots Battered Surface With Razorfish
Microsoft is taking another run at Surface, this time with a new digital agency. Despite an ambitious marketing plan, the tech giant has had a...
Ogilvy Chief Data Officer Role May Be Sign of Things to Come
Is the chief data officer an addition to the agency C-suite that will stick? Ogilvy & Mather is among the first agencies to create a...
Programmatic media unpacked (part two)
Growing pains Programmatic media has quickly become a catch-all name for the seemingly clandestine automated trading relationships between agencies, advertisers, publishers and tech vendors. This...
That Cookie-Killing Student? An Ad Agency Just Hired Her
Remember that grad student whose thesis project could destroy digital ad targeting as we know it? She got her degree and just started her first...
Measures of digital marketing ROI are meaningless unless ads are viewable
As things stand, brands are buying thousands of impressions on a cost per thousand basis and blithely accepting the reported click-through rate (CTR) as an...
TBWA Creates A Dating Game for Startup Companies
TBWA has creating a dating game–for startups. The Omnicom Group agency has launched a new mobile app, CoCreator, which it’s marketing as a “business speed-dater”...
How Social Data Influenced Hyatt to Pull Part of Campaign Days Before Launch
When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s modern feminist manifesto “Lean In” ignited negativity, Hyatt was forced to pull the plug on a main element of its...
5 Things VCs Don’t Get About Advertising
Entrepreneurs across the advertising and marketing technology landscape say some venture capitalists don’t really understand the way the marketing world really works. The misunderstandings range...
Publicis Omnicom Isn’t About Helping Clients
Jenny Biggam is the founder of the7stars, an independent media agency based in the U.K. It used to be that advertising and media were all...
