Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Spotify solidifies foothold in podcasting with acquisitions of Gimlet, Anchor Feb 6, 2019 by Robin Kurzer The company shared the news with its Q4 2018 earnings, which showed a profit for…
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…
At a time when technology is enabling marketers to inch ever closer to one-to-one marketing, one of the industry’s most highly respected institutions suggests that this “Holy Grail” may not be all it’s cracked up to be. The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) warns marketers that excessive targeting and retargeting can lead to lower-than-expected ROIs, a…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Prepare to say goodbye to Facebook ad set budgetsFeb 5, 2019 by Amy Gesenhues All Facebook campaigns will run with campaign budget optimization as of September. Digital agencies are hiring, focusing…
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, Moore’s Law and ongoing automation by the big search engines are accelerating the evolution of PPC. So much so, the role of the PPC pro has to evolve just as rapidly. Optmyzr co-founder Fred Vallaeys recently encapsulated the new roles humans will play in an AI world to help PPC pros…
Ad tech provider Taptica announced Monday that it will scoop up cross-channel solutions provider RhythmOne for $176 million, rounding out its programmatic offerings for video advertisers. Building on its purchase of Tremor Video DSP in August 2017, and RhythmOne’s own acquisition of video and CTV inventory provider YuMe in early 2018, Taptica’s expanded offering should…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Report: YouTube ad revenue jumped 11% in 2018 thanks to repeat advertisers Feb 1, 2019 by Amy GesenhuesYouTube ad revenues increased 11 percent year-over-year in 2018, according to MediaRadar. 3 types…
In the quest to improve cookie ID matching, the efforts by the Advertising ID Consortium and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)’s Tech Lab’s DigiTrust have attracted a lot of the attention. But major demand side platform (DSP) The Trade Desk points out that its emerging unified ID is a third, separate initiative, even though the…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Quora adds search-like keyword targeting, Auction Insights for advertisers Jan 31, 2019 by Ginny Marvin Keyword targeting offers the intent targeting of search and can be more granular than topic targeting….
SAN JOSE — Quora continues to rapidly build out features and capabilities of its not-yet-two-year old advertising platform. The question and answer platform announced the launch of Auction Insights at SMX West in San Jose, CA Thursday. Earlier this week, Quora rolled out keyword targeting, allowing advertisers to bid on the keywords they may already…
