Holiday Ads Have Started; Learn About Influencer Marketing: Friday’s First Things First

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Rothy’s Won’t Chase Trends—It’s Making Them

Rothy’s, a direct-to-consumer footwear brand founded in 2012, knows how much its customers love the shoe. The brand doesn’t necessarily need to dig deep to figure out how they like a silhouette or a color, either. There are several Facebook groups dedicated to discussing, buying, selling and trading the shoe, including one called Rothy’s Addicts…

Martin Sorrell Vs. Glen Hartman: What Exactly Is A Holding Company, Anyway?

Martin Sorrell went on the attack in a fireside chat with Accenture Interactive senior managing director Glen Hartman. The S4 executive chairman fixated on Accenture’s operating and incentive structure and how much autonomy creative agencies maintained within its network. “Accenture talks about one P&L,” he said during the session at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO New York.Continue reading »

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Mozilla’s CMO On The ‘Perfect Future’: Plain Language, A Value Exchange And An Opt-In

Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, CMO of Firefox parent company Mozilla, has fiery opinions about technology companies that use privacy as “nothing more than a communications ploy.” “Most organizations aren’t taking the right steps to treat people like human beings, and that’s a big problem,” said Kaykas-Wolff, who’s been with Mozilla for more than four and a halfContinue reading »

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Podcast: The Product Mindset

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, product veteran Bridget Bidlack tackles big questions: Is ad tech mature? How do creative types tap into programmatic? And is the industry moving fast enough on gender equality? On the maturity of ad tech, the SVP of product atContinue reading »

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Data Platforms Enable First-Party Data Strategies – But Aren’t A Substitute For One

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. After several months of debate, speculation and conflicting positions following the earthquake caused by privacy regulation changes and global trends, the industry seems to clusterContinue reading »

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Comic: “They Don’t Taste As Good As They Used To”

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

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