In what’s being sold as the first cross-platform private ad exchange, The Weather Channel’s Category 5 developed by AdMeld promises to connect advertisers with 50 million consumers while leaving the inventory segmentation and pricing to to TWC.
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Rubicon is purchasing mostly the technology (ad server, MyAds self-service ad buying platform, targeting technology, realtime bidding algorithms) and taking on about 100 of FAN’s technology employees (after the other half of FAN’s employees, the sales team, lost their jobs last week). FAN’s third-party ad network is not part of the deal.
Spending on general, broad-based ad networks — which currently are the dominant source among advertisers and agencies that buy online advertising inventory though networks — will decline over the next 12 months as Madison Avenue shifts its focus toward more targeted options based on user behavior or social networks.
Just ask Sears. The company did something very unexpected to celebrate Halloween: it redesigned the home page of its online department store to appeal to a target audience of the undead (OK, technically its an audience of human consumers who happen to appreciate zombie humor).
The Republican National Committee provided voter data to AOL recently for last-minute online ad targeting. An e-mail sent to GOP Senate campaigns from the National Republican Senatorial Committee this morning touted the data pass-along, telling them they could now target Republicans by location, voting habits, and other criteria
A slew of companies have lately begun supporting new formats, in particular mobile and pre-roll ads. Among them are Microsoft, Adap.tv, BrightRoll, demand-side platform DataXu, and Research in Motion. As with display, ads are auctioned on a real-time basis through ad exchanges and other « sell-side aggregators, » with assets provided by ad networks and demand-side platforms.
The company transforms standard banner ads into dynamic flash ads with rich-media functionality. « It is possible to get the same excitement and engagement with consumers from standard units that can scale and don’t frustrate users, » he says. « Our ads can run anywhere including exchanges, through DSPs, ad networks and of course directly on sites – they are also not hamstrung by requirements to drop code in a publisher’s page. »
By culling years of data and tracking consumer behavior with startling intensity, publishers and rich media companies are now able to develop better, more effective banners that are transforming the expanding ad experience for consumers both through Internet and mobile media. The new crop does more to abide by best practices, offering a rich advertising experience than these units ever have before.
DirectConnect automates access to Undertone’s inventory so agencies can target audiences using familiar data. Four agency trading desks have already signed on to use DirectConnect, including WPP’s MEC.
MySpace is trading most of the assets of its Fox Audience Network to the Rubicon Project in exchange for a significant equity minority stake, according to sources close to the situation. Under the deal, which is nearly complete with a signed term sheet, MySpace will hand over a number of parts of FAN, including most of its 300 employees.
« But you see agencies are, in fact, developing customer relationships through demand-side platforms and databases of online users that are housed in agencies. The boundaries that used to be very clear are not so clear anymore. »
Ad Desk is being built as—“And this is probably not the best analogy these days,” Armstrong said—a “Goldman Sachs structure,” where the platform will sit on top of the ad exchanges and demand-side platforms to clear trades through those systems. “We are testing DSP relationships right now as well so you’ll see us working on that over the next 12 months.”
NBC Universal is getting into the ad network business, first selling inventory across a handful of its own properties, then possibly expanding into others. The network, called Universal Audience Platform, launched today with 21 NBCU properties, including Bravotv.com, NBC.com, Oxygen.com and Syfy.com. While advertisers have previously had the ability to buy packages that spanned NBCU properties, this is the first time they can buy display inventory based on audience segment rather than brand.
Adknowledge, the largest privately-owned Internet ad network, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Hydra Group (www.hydragroup.com), a premium CPA (cost-per-acquisition) performance marketing network.
Adify Boosts Industry Capacity to Serve Video Ads, Enhancing Reach, Metrics and Digital Video ROI for Brand Advertisers
Kaufman says. « This is about buying an audience across sites that they are most passionate about, » she says. « Audience buying is code for find-your-person-on-anything, but numerous studies also point to site content, design and other factors as being extremely important. »
Horyzon et E Bay vont commercialiser en juin prochain de la publicité s’appuyant sur l’étude du comportement de l’internaute sur E Bay. “Ce ciblage s’appuiera sur de l’information riche (les utilisateurs passent sur E Bay en moyenne une heure par mois) plus qualifiée qu’un historique de search.”
The digital intelligence division of Kantar Media, today launched a first-of-its-kind service that now incorporates Fox Audience Network’s reach of more than 150 million consumers into the new Compete XL measurement methodology, introducing to the industry valuable new data that describes consumer lifestyles, passions and purchasing behaviors.
Orange will operate the market, bringing suppliers (publishers) and buyers (agencies and advertisers) to the market. OpenX will power the underlying global market and technology. All supply and demand will connect via the single global market that OpenX powers, ensuring the full network effect and global competition so important to online ad marketplaces. At the same time, customers in Europe will be sold and supported by a local, dedicated Orange team with a very rich understanding of the needs and subtleties of each market.
B2b ad network Bizo is blending the business demographics it uses with ad clients to target campaigns with BPA Worldwide’s BPA Interactive tool for auditing site traffic. Combined, they are building an online dashboard that is designed to give publishers a better profile of their own sites to offer advertisers.
Anthony Rhind, Global Co-CEO, Havas Digital, one of the agencies that sponsored the study adds, “This .Fox research is valuable because it looks beyond the usual data used by the industry for media trading. As opposed to relying on the usual simplistic denominators of click-thru & last event attribution, this research centres on consumer behaviour proxies that are better placed to reflect communication goals, defining success based on a mix of visitation, engagement and search behaviour across a four week period…
Connexus Corporation, owner of Traffic Marketplace, the premier online ad network and social media company, and Epic Advertising, the world’s largest privately-owned performance network and search marketing company, today announced their intent to merge. The two companies will combine to form one of the largest private digital media companies globally, offering advertisers and publishers the ability to access display, search and social media internet traffic from over 225 countries and territories around the world.
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