Month: January 2018

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Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. CafeMedia, operator of CafeMom, MamasLatinas and other sites, is a technology-first media company. It employs seven developers who do nothing but manage pre-bid implementations, upgrade bidders, monitor code on-page and so on. “The delivery of programmatic media is what we do,” says EVP for Strategy… Continue reading »

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By the end of 2018, Orangetheory Fitness plans to have 1,300 studios in 17 countries, and by midyear, it expects to hit $1 billion in revenue. To get there, the fitness brand has worked with Knoxville, Tenn.-based The Tombras Group over the past three years, building its membership with a hypertargeted approach–strategic programmatic, social and…

The Television Critics Association’s winter press tour kicked off with a bang today. Fox’s network chiefs spoke publicly for the first time about their company’s uncertain future since last month, when Disney announced its acquisition of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion after spinning off some Fox assets–including Fox Broadcasting, Fox News and Fox Sports–into…

In a new report released this morning, Pew Research Center sought to bring into focus the blurry lines that tend to define what does and does not constitute online harassment. The research organization asked respondents to look at three fictional scenarios depicting potential online harassment, and asked which elements of each should be considered harassment….

It’s soon going to become Alexa’s world that we’re just living in, complete with its own product recommendations disguised as ads. According to a report from CNBC, Amazon is considering adding ads into Alexa and is in talks with companies like Procter & Gamble and Clorox about it. It’s yet another wake-up call for brands…

Dating: So easy, a caveman can do it? Since the dawn of time, human beings have been yearning for connection. Over the years, we’ve only made it more and more difficult to find. Or, at least, so says a new spot from Tinder and production spot Buck Design, which posits that Tinder isn’t so much…

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While ad tech companies have been accumulating VC funds and growing their stacks – and sales orgs – for a while, many took pains to rightsize over the past year or so. For some, the intent was to recapitalize or to prep for a sale if an IPO was a no-go. For others, it was… Continue reading »

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After 15 seasons on the air, there’s very little ground that Family Guy has yet to cover, but Fox has managed to pull off something new for the comedy’s March 11 episode, which will air with limited commercial interruptions for the first time in series history. The episode will air with fewer ad pods than…

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Forrester principal analyst Fatemeh Khatibloo will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Industry Preview conference on Jan. 17-18, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt New York. If marketers and publishers don’t know how many third-party tags lurk on their sites, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect in May, will change that. “A client will tell… Continue reading »

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Essence, an iconic brand since 1970, was bought by private entity Essence Ventures LLC, headed by Richelieu Dennis, who founded the Sundail Brand beauty products.