Google debuted a number of shopping and travel ad products on Tuesday, including dynamic price alerts for flights based on Google search queries. But first, YouTube. When Google rolled out TrueView for shopping last spring on YouTube, it claimed the units generated three times the revenue of standard TrueView video ads – and the volume […]
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has no trouble getting people interested in March Madness, when the fans are rabid. It’s the rest of the year that poses a challenge. “The hardest thing is that we have a brand everyone wants to be a part of – but only at the end,” said Chris Dion, the […]
When brands think about video advertising, sequential retargeting isn’t always top of mind. But multinational rental-car company Sixt, in its bid to capture more share in the US market (it has 50 stations across the US, after opening its first in Florida in 2011), is test-driving Facebook video coupled with expanded Custom Audiences to improve […]
As proprietor and chef at Café Avalaun, a gluten-free restaurant just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Brian Doyle would rather cook, bake and make crêpes than spend his life on marketing. “We don’t do a lot of traditional advertising because it’s expensive and it’s hard to know if you’re actually hitting your target audience,” said Doyle, […]
IHeartMedia relies heavily on listeners to inform its online marketing efforts. When advertising its stations, the digital audio giant has found its biggest influencers aren’t celebs with millions of followers, but music fans who write quality social media posts, said Chris Williams, iHeartMedia’s chief product officer. “If you can find the five or six Justin Bieber […]
If the content is good, the distribution – paid, earned or otherwise – nearly takes care of itself, said Anthony Ingham, global brand leader at W Hotels & Resorts. “We’ve steered away from peppering tactical ads in mass numbers across multiple channels,” Ingham said. “We start with the premise of trying to create the best content, and then […]
App publisher Betternet is eschewing banners in favor of native because the results are better and the experience is less annoying for the user – but getting enough quality demand can be a challenge. “This year I observed that the fill rate for most of the ad networks we work with is sometimes even less […]
Microsoft, which spent $26 billion on LinkedIn, isn’t the only company betting big on B2B data. Business database Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) also placed wagers over the past year by striking 16 strategic deals with publishers, agency trading desks and vendors like LiveRamp, Xaxis and Adobe. Despite being known for its commercial credit listings and […]
LinkedIn is launching more programmatic buying access to its historically walled arsenal of B2B inventory, just two weeks after Microsoft acquired it. Tuesday’s launch of programmatic display opens RTB access to all major demand side platforms and agency trading desks. Advertisers can either buy LinkedIn display ad inventory via the open exchange or through LinkedIn Private Auctions. The […]
Since some people will never tune into their local 5 o’clock news broadcast, many local news stations are setting aside competitive concerns to partner with NewsOn. The app brings 141 local news broadcasts to OTT and mobile audiences. “While these companies compete fiercely with each other in local markets, they see the value of NewsOn,” […]
History can be a burden for a brand, if it means that company is too set in its ways to pivot and try new things. Just consider e.l.f. Cosmetics, the digitial-first, social-native brand that made good.
Digital-native brands need to figure out how to win in retail shelves. They’re finding it difficult, to say the least.
A group of 20 web app developers sent a letter to the CMA claiming the regulator’s proposed remedies for increasing competition among mobile browsers do not address barriers to entry for mobile web extensions on iOS and Android.
“There are billions of additional screens outside of mobile phones,” says Dan Page, TikTok’s global head of partnerships and new screens. “We want to be in all of them.”
The Trade Desk delivered another smash earnings report. Meanwhile, Unified ID 2.0, the open-source identity initiative, has “reached a critical mass of adoption,” CEO Jeff Green told investors.
Many of Publicis’ fastest-growing and most strategic business units – including CitrusAd, Profitero, Epsilon and Conversant – earn a large chunk of their revenue from other agencies. Is that a problem?
