Ad Tech
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Online Advertising
The Trade Desk Maintains Its High Growth Rate And Touts New Channels
The Trade Desk grew by 27% year-over-year in Q3, with revenue now totaling $628 million and net profits up from $39 million to $94 million in the same period. Snooze. What’s new? Well, without breaking out new revenue metrics, The Trade Desk divulged some interesting tidbits about their business. For instance, while the company doesn’t […]
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CTV Roundup
How Do You Solve A Problem Like TV Measuring? Maybe This CIMM Report Will Help
TV measurement is migrating from traditional sample-based systems to solutions built on big data. In other words, measuring TV audiences is becoming an incredibly complicated task, and almost no one knows that better than members of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM).
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Marketers
WBD’s DTC Ad Revenue Grew Nearly 50% In Q3 (But It’s Not All Good News)
Stop if you’ve heard this one before: Overall revenue is down at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), at a rate of 4% YOY in Q3 to $9.6 billion.
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Online Advertising
LiveRamp Outperforms On Earnings And Lays Out Its Data Network Ambitions
LiveRamp reported an unexpected boost to Q3 revenue, from $160 million last year to $185 million in 2024, during its quarterly call with investors on Wednesday. The company has a number of tailwinds, said CEO Scott Howe. LiveRamp benefits by the disappearance of Oracle’s ad business – another prominent data marketplace provider and a main […]
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Marketers
DoubleVerify Won 70% Of The Former Moat Advertisers It Courted
Moat, ya basic. Well, ya were basic, at least according to DoubleVerify CEO Mark Zagorski. “One thing we did note is that Moat had a pretty basic product,” Zagorski said on Wednesday during the company’s Q3 earnings call in response to an investor asking for more detail on the Oracle opportunity. In September, Oracle shut […]
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Marketers
Why Old-School CPGs Are Getting Back To Basics
This is a challenging time for grocery-store brands. For example, last month, McKinsey published a report on 18 “arenas of competition” that will define the growth of the economy: It encompasses “Digital advertising,” “Ecommerce,” “Electric vehicles,” “Space,” “Video games” and 13 others. Everything except the manufacture of food, drinks and snacks or household goods. (“Drugs […]
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The Big Story
The Role Of Ad Dollars In The 2024 Presidential Election
Trump won the 2024 election. To discuss how paid media played a role (and didn’t) in his victory, we bring on guest Jordan Lieberman, CEO of Power Interactive. The programmatic buying company handled more than 1,000 digital campaigns across the political spectrum this election cycle.
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Marketers
How Dewar’s Uses Social Media – And Golf – To Target A New Generation Of Scotch Drinkers
With signal loss on the rise, many advertisers are giving first-party data more of a shot. Not scotch whisky brand Dewar’s, though.
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Data-Driven Thinking
From Banners To Generative AI: How Two Digital Revolutions Redefined The Future Of Marketing
On October 27, 1994, I watched history unfold as the first-ever digital banner ads ran on HotWired.com. Roughly a dozen ads went live that day, catapulting the world of advertising into a new era. As we mark the 30th anniversary of that monumental milestone, I can’t help but draw parallels between that moment and the […]
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Marketers
How Kenvue Avoided $3 Million In Wasted Media Spend
When advertisers see their ad verification partners blocking lots of impressions, they often think, “Okay, good – that’s proof the technology is working.” But negative blocking isn’t the healthiest – or the most efficient – way to approach brand safety, said Mark Proulx, global director of media quality and responsibility at Kenvue, the consumer health care company that […]