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Paywalls Without Cash? Enliken Encourages User Data As Currency

With print revenues falling faster and online ad dollars failing to fill the void, publishers have increasingly turned to paywalls. As a Guardian UK piece noted this week, 11 of the top 20 U.S. newspapers are either currently asking users for cash to access content, or are about to embark...

Martin Sorrell Q&A: WPP Will Broaden Its Tech Footprint

The six global ad holding companies (WPP, Publicis, Interpublic, Omnicom, Dentsu, and Havas) are basically legal roosting boxes for advertising agencies, but a few years hence we may see them very differently. Or, a few of them anyway. Speaking with AdExchanger today, CEO Martin Sorrell said, “I think our business...

WPP Accelerates Tech M&A With Stake In Argentina’s Globant

WPP Group has taken a 20% stake in Globant, a fast growing Latin American marketing and software development firm. Buenos Aires-based Globant blends engineering and design-driven driven approaches. It employs 2,700 in six countries — including Brazil, Argentina, and Columbia — and offers its clients software development, data architecture, e-commerce...

Ad Networks And Piracy; Choosing Against ‘Ad Choices’

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Piracy And Ad Networks The University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg Innovation Lab released a new study yesterday which claims that ad networks are continuing to support piracy of digitized content. OpenX, Google, Yahoo (including Right Media), Quantcast and...

BMO’s Salmon: Facebook Starting To See Online Video / TV Ad Budget

Dan Salmon is an equity research analyst at BMO Capital Markets and covers advertising and marketing services. Salmon began coverage of Facebook and explored his outlook in a research note to investors on Monday. You can download it here (PDF). AdExchanger: Where are the ad dollars that are being poured...

Mediaocean Preps ‘Prisma’ Display Ad Buying System

It’s been nearly a year since ad sales workflow systems provider Mediaocean was given the regulatory green light to form the merger of Mediabank and Donovan Data Systems. While Mediaocean picked up the mantle of both entities’ attempts to bring online media buying methods to traditional TV, Mediaocean CEO Bill...

How MediaCom Does Data

As a WPP Group agency, MediaCom works closely with the holding company’s Xaxis trading desk to execute data-driven media strategies. In such relationships between agencies and trading desks, it can be hard for a client to know where the desk stops and the operating agency begins. That creates a tricky...