To cap off a week of companies like AT&T, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson pulling their ad dollars from YouTube due to placement around offensive videos on the platform, it was shown today that not even YouTube's own brand is safe from the problem. On Friday afternoon, Wall Street Journal reporter Jack Nicas tweeted a...
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Digital & Tech Daily
March 27, 2017
Today's top news for digital marketers
An embarrassing sign of the problem's breadth
By Lauren Johnson
To cap off a week of companies like AT&T, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson pulling their ad dollars from YouTube due to placement around offensive videos on the platform, it was shown today that not even YouTube's own brand is safe from the problem. On Friday afternoon, Wall Street Journal reporter Jack Nicas tweeted a...
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Perhaps a souped up TweetDeck?
By Marty Swant
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It’s time to look beyond viewability
Checking in on college hoops, Snapchat, Instagram and iHeartRadio
By Christopher Heine
NBCUniversal and Sky weigh in at Adobe Summit
By Marty Swant
The companies both unveiled updates this week
By Marty Swant
At the Adobe Summit this week in Las Vegas, Adobe unveiled the latest suite of updates for Sensei, the company's platform for artificial intelligence that competes with IBM's Watson and Salesforce's Einstein. The updates, which include an expanded partnership with Microsoft to pull the Microsoft's CRM data into Adobe's cloud, could help marketers improve spending...
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The controversial move would strengthen online ads
By Christopher Heine
The United State Senate voted today to repeal regulations that forbade an internet service provider from selling users' data without their permission, representing a victory for Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and other broadband services. Digital advertising and marketing players also probably won--especially if the House of Representatives passes the bill and sends it to pro-business President...
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David Fischer talks the future of social and video at Adobe Summit
By Marty Swant
Facebook's head of advertising said he expects more marketers to join the trend of purpose-driven marketing, following a series of Super Bowl spots that went beyond cute dogs in favor of more meaningful messaging. Speaking today at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, David Fischer, Facebook's vp of advertising and global operations, said he hopes...
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Inventory is available across on-demand and live programming
By Marty Swant
Sling TV is getting into programmatic advertising, partnering with Adobe's newly unveiled Advertising Cloud to let brands bid in real time on livestreaming and video on demand. The offering, which is expected to be announced later today at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, will let marketers bid on Sling's inventory via a private marketplace....
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Includes a metric to track sales
By Lauren Johnson
Facebook wants to use video to drive retail sales. Today the site is launching a new ad format called Collection. A video sits on the top half of the ad unit with four recommended products below. Retailers either select the products they want to feature manually or Facebook pulls popular products from a retailer's site....
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They spend $4.5 billion in the US each year
By Patrick Coffee
Two of America's largest advertisers have abruptly pulled all advertising from YouTube amid a growing international controversy concerning extremist content on the Google-owned video platform. This content includes videos promoting terrorist groups like ISIS. Both AT&T and Verizon announced today that they would no longer buy video or text ads on YouTube until Google meets...
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