A few weeks ago, media platform Hulu unveiled a new “non-intrusive, viewer-initiated” ad unit that plays when viewers pause the show they’re watching. Hulu is currently testing the ad with Coca-Cola and Charmin, and expects to make it generally available for select content by next quarter. The availability of this type of ad is the clearest […]
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From Singular Marketing intelligence platform Singular has added a new capability to its platform that is designed to determine a complete return-on-investment (ROI) by combining cross-channel attribution with cross-channel marketing spend. Since its founding in 2014, the San Francisco-based company has offered attribution and ROI, but in device-specific silos, beginning with its origins in mobile.
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Amazon Moment’s console rewards platform. Amazon has launched Amazon Moments, a cross-platform solution that allows marketers to create cost-per-action (CPA) loyalty campaigns to be made available via a brand’s app or website. Delivered as an API, the platform lets marketers create campaigns aimed at driving a specific action and, based on the user completing the
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Brightcove, a video cloud solution for managing, delivering and monetizing video content, announced on Wednesday it is entering an agreement to acquire video ad tech firm Ooyala for $15 million — $6.25 million in cash and the remainder in Brightcove shares. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019. Why you
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From Optimizely: An idea collaboration screen in Slack. Optimizely users can now share ideas and check the status of experiments through collaboration tool Slack. The announcement this week means that those marketers who subscribe to both Slack and Optimizely won’t need to log directly into Optimizely to check ongoing web, iOS, Android and Over-the-Top TV
LinkedIn Sales Navigator Custom Lists. LinkedIn announced on Wednesday a number of new updates to its Sales Navigator lead prospecting tool. After completely overhauling the platform last year, LinkedIn is making it possible for users to share the Custom Lists they create between team members. The company has also added a new search exclusion filter
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For the first time, a brand leader will sit on the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) board of directors, the industry trade group announced Sunday at its annual leadership meeting. Jesse Horwitz, co-founder and co-CEO of contact lens subscription company Hubble, is the first representative of a brand to be elected to the board. Up to
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Third-party measurement and authentication company DoubleVerify announced Thursday that it identified an exploit in Ads.txt, giving way to concern over the effectiveness of the industry-accepted fraud-fighting tool for programmatic ad buying and selling. DoubleVerify estimated that had the exploit not been detected, the scammers could have diverted between $70 million and $80 million of advertisers’ spending
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Spotify announced it has acquired podcast development company Gimlet Media and back-end podcasting services firm Anchor on Wednesday with its Q4 2018 earnings report. The news put a bow on the audio platform’s first quarter to turn a profit. The report showed increases in almost every category, including MUAs (monthly active users), premium subscribers and engagement.
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Facebook has added a new layer of ad targeting with the introduction of household income by U.S. ZIP code. The feature will allow advertisers to target ads to U.S. Facebook users based on the average income levels in the ZIP code in which they say they reside. Why you should care The new ad targeting
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