Google’s private programmatic exchanges can now book premium ad space like mastheads for brands. It is working with ABC to promote the new show Rising Star using an exchange that only places ads in prominent positions, ones that are not typically associated with automated buying. “This exchange is unique in that it specifically accesses only ..
Programmatic advertising has been around since 2009. On mobile though, it’s only recently started to take off Penetration and performance of the smartphone has increased and programmatic buying companies have seen the opportunity. Whilst Facebook and Google are taking most of the mobile advertising dollar, programmatic is certainly on the rise as it seeks to ..
What is cross-device tracking? Cross-device tracking describes the myriad ways platforms, publishers and ad tech companies try to identify Internet users across smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. The goal of cross-device tracking is to be able to know that the person using smartphone X is the same person who uses tablet Y and laptop Z, ..
The $70 billion television advertising business is poised for a change. Following the path of desktop, social and mobile ads, the television industry is beginning to flirt with programmatic technologies. But the television ad ecosystem operates far differently than its digital cousin, so programmatic advertising — effectively, data-driven automation of advertising transactions — will take a different ..
U.S. advertisers’ spending on digital advertising will overtake TV in 2016 and hit $103 billion in 2019 to represent 36% of all ad spending, according to Forrester’s latest estimates based on its ForecastView model. U.S. advertisers will spend $85.8 billion on TV ads in 2019, which will equal 30% of overall ad spending that year, ..
Gartner Research’s first-ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Marketing Hubs, released Wednesday, assumes that ad tech, marketing tech and CRM will naturally converge. As such, it pits enterprise platforms like Salesforce.com against ad tech regulars like Rocket Fuel [x+1] and Turn. No doubt many in the industry will debate whether or not this is fair, or ..
How big is programmatic advertising? It’s on track to be $20 billion big. This once small piece of the ad industry—the automated buying and selling of digital ads—is set to double from this year’s $10 billion to $20 billion in 2016, according to eMarketer’s latest report. These are the kinds of numbers you get when ..
Our first-ever estimates for US programmatic ad spending are based on an exhaustive analysis of dozens of data sources as well as in-depth interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, publishers, media companies and advertising technology firms—more than 50 in all. 2014 has seen the most dramatic growth and expansion in programmatic advertising to date, ..