Posts tagged with: Ad Tech

Heineken is moving ad verification in-house, a shift in policy from previously relying on its agencies to police ads. The beer brewer is running a global search for one ad verification technology it can run directly from all its markets,...
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  • Out of Klout: The social media scoring service is shutting down
Klout bows out. Klout, the tech pioneer that measured people’s social media star power, is shutting down after losing influence in an industry over which it once claimed to be the arbiter of influence. The company invented the “Klout Score,”...
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  • Cash Conversion – A Secret to Google and Facebook’s Success
Apple is the case study for mastering the cash conversion cycle. Last year, the company collected money from consumers 86 days before they paid their vendors. Because they’ve found a way to get paid before they have to pay, they...
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  • Facebook unveils new analytics features, including a tool to track the omnichannel journey
Facebook introduced new analytics features — including a tool to track customer journeys through multiple channels — on Tuesday at its F8 developer conference. Journeys is the most notable addition to Facebook’s currents analytics tools. It provides omnichannel data and...
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The answer is no, at least not for everyone, said Elgin Thompson, managing director of the technology investment advisory firm Digital Capital Advisors, at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC I/O in San Francisco last week. A look back at IPO filings of former...
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The day after David Bowie died in January 2016, Pandora users generated 200,000 Bowie-themed stations. The solar eclipse last August drove a 3,000 percent leap in Spotify plays for Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Music lasts, in other...
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  • 4A’s Attendees Predict How the Ad Industry Will Evolve Over the Next 5 Years
4A’s Attendees Predict How the Ad Industry Will Evolve Over the Next 5 Years
4A’s Attendees Predict How the Ad Industry Will Evolve Over the Next 5 Years
Almost every facet of the advertising industry is in upheaval, leading marketers to agree on one thing, if nothing else—that five years down the road, the landscape for them is going to look vastly different than it does today. And,...
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In March, Horizon Media hosted a blockchain summit and brought together platforms to discuss how they are working with the technology. The conference was meant to educate the agency about blockchain as much as enthuse its publisher clients. Horizon Media...
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  • LUMA Digital Brief 019 - Market Report Q1 2018
LUMA’s latest Market Report highlights the public and private markets during Q1 2018. Coming off a year headlined by media’s mega mergers, the impact is expected to spur continued consolidation this year along with other market forces. In Ad Tech,...
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  • The pendulum swings: Balancing transparency with efficiency and ROI
The issue of transparency has taken center stage in the ad tech world, and for good reason. For too long, the industry has seriously lacked it. Advertisers have led the charge by cutting spending to entities that refuse to shine...
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