Archive for septembrie, 2015
Business Insider preluat de Axel Springer
miercuri, septembrie 30th, 2015343 milioane USD a platit grupul german Axel Spinger pentru a prelua 88% din actiunile BusinessInsider.com ceea ce inseamna o evaluare de ~ 450 milioane USD. Nemtii mai detineau 9% ceea ce inseamna ca au ajuns la 97%, diferenta de 3% fiind in posesia lui Jeff Bezos. O combinatie interesanta.
Axel Springer e prezent indirect in Romania prin parteneriatul cu Ringier (de fapt e un joint venture in Europa de Est, Romania fiind singura tara in care nemtii nu au intrat inca).
Ca sa recapitulam principalele investitii in media din ultimii doi ani:
1. Bezos cumpara Washington Post pentru 250 milioane USD
2. Andreessen Horowitz investeste 50 milioane USD in Buzzfeed la o evaluare de 850 milioane USD
3. Vice Media sunt evaluati la 2.5 miliarde USD dupa o investitie de 500 milioane USD
4. Comcast (care detine NBC) investeste 200 milioane USD in Vox Media, la o evaluare de aproximativ 1 miliard USD
5. Nikkei plateste 1.3 miliarde USD pentru FT
6. Medium.com a fost evaluata la 400 milioane dolari de o investitie a celor de la Andreessen Horowitz
7. BusinessInsider e preluat de Axel Springer la o evaluare de 450 milioane USD
Tweetul diminetii
miercuri, septembrie 30th, 2015
There's no money in news/content. Except for Buzzfeed, Business Insider, Medium, Reddit, Financial Times, Vice, Vox Media, etc.
— Jonathan Abrams (@abrams) September 29, 2015
Scurte
marți, septembrie 29th, 20151. Medium.com, platforma lansata de Ev Williams (ex Twitter, ex Blogger) acum 3 ani, a fost evaluata la 400 milioane dolari de o investitie a celor de la Andreessen Horowitz. Link.
2. Google anunta ca va lansa targetarea pe baza adresei de email, lucru pe care Facebook il face deja din 2012. Link.
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To break into the top 10 brands would imply a production volume of at least 2.5 million units (about the same as Daimler ships today.) At 2.65 million and a price of $55k/vehicle Apple’s revenues from cars would total about $145 billion. This is roughly the sales value of the iPhone business today. Not bad. Maybe that would satisfy a financial analyst.
Greu
joi, septembrie 24th, 20154. Finally, publishers must take control of their site experiences, and turn down advertising that doesn’t meet their standards for user engagement.
Greu, din trei motive:
1. Inflatie de inventory.
2. Google si Facebook care dau pretul in jos –> publisherii sunt obligati sa compenseze scaderea pretului cu formate agresive care genereaza clickuri, adica volume.
3. Programmaticul care niveleaza oferta si reduce publisherii mari la nivelul pietei.
De aici.
Google vs Facebook + Apple
miercuri, septembrie 23rd, 2015If you see how stock analysts value Google and Apple stocks, around 90% of the value of Apple ($650bn) is due to iOS while around 8% of the value of Google ($450bn) is due to Android. And this is the case even though outside the US Android has 82% market share. But while Android has 81% smartphone market share Apple with less than 14% has over 80% of the global smartphone market profits. This happens because if you are a $650bn company focused on one product you are likely to beat a $450bn multiproduct company.
And then there is the other vulnerability of Google which is ads. Search related ads are around 80% of the value of Google. Ads are to Google what iOS is to Apple. But in ads Google is under attack from another company: Facebook. Facebook is a $260bn ads only company that does not allow Google to crawl it. For Google everything that goes on at Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp is a black hole. But Facebook has found another way to make ads work that is not search based but instead it is contextual to whatever you are doing on Facebook. And these ads are extremely well targeted. Facebook allows advertisers to use key demographics such as geography, gender, age, income, occupation, something that Google cannot do. Moreover Facebook is way ahead of Google in mobile advertising and the fight against ad blockers.
De aici
Inca 4 slide-uri despre adblockere
marți, septembrie 22nd, 2015De data asta de la Comscore, adica standardul in materie de masurari web in SUA si nu numai, si Sourcepoint. Intregul studiu va fi disponibil in aceasta toamna, oricum cele 4 slideuri sunt suficiente pentru a confirma ce aflasem deja din precedentul raport.
Situatia pe tari, la nivel de unici, deja in Germania si Franta s-a ajuns la 24% respectiv 27% din total populatie utilizatoare de internet!
Pe tari, la nivel de afisari, confirma asteptarile, vorbim de heavy users:
Userii de calitate folosesc adblockere (cu exceptia Frantei)
Dinamica din ultimele 10 luni …
100% programmatic, 65% adfraud?
luni, septembrie 21st, 2015Context:
La un eveniment desfasurat saptamana trecuta, luni, la Londra, Catherine Williams, chief data scientist AppNexus, a scapat porumbelul spunand ca 65% din afisarile tranzactionate prin platforma sunt fraudulente dar ca au luat masuri pentru a corecta aceasta situatie.
Ulterior, probabil vazand reactiile industriei, AppNexus a nuantat afirmatia spunand ca de fapt 65% din tranzactii, nu din afisari, sunt fraudulente. Oricum ar fi, din afisari sau din tranzactii, 65% e un procent foarte mare.
Acest „scandal” nu ajuta industria mai ales ca vine „la pachet” cu lansarea iOS 9.0 care permite, pentru prima oara, pe iPhone/iPad, blocarea reclamelor. In SUA dezbaterile pro/contra adblockere au atins apogeul in ultimele zile, mai multe publicatii apeland la masuri prin care contentul este blocat celor ce folosesc solutii de tip adblocker.
Pe acelasi subiect va recomand un articol aparut in urma dezbaterilor de la Dmexco 2015: The programmatic debate
Cateva din reactiile oamenilor din industrie la dezvaluirea AppNexus le gasiti mai jos:
Did Appnexus just admit to ripping off buyers for the last 8 years? #ATSL15
— Luke Fenney (@lukefenney) September 14, 2015
AppNexus just cut 65% of supply deemed fraudulent. $2billion / year flows through pipe. $1.3 billion freed to go where it belongs. #ATSL15
— Index Exchange (@IndexExchange) September 14, 2015
sorry but I don't buy it – @AppNexus moral decision speech. A co full of bright people who knew what was going on. Chose to ignore #ATSL15
— marco bertozzi (@m_bertozzi) September 14, 2015
#atsl15 Appnexus on centre stage talking about volume dropping 65% due to anti fraud steps…Why?@RubiconProject did this years ago!!
— Nina Harvey (@TweetNinaH) September 14, 2015
Good to see @AppNexus catching up with @OpenX @RubiconProject and @google on ad fraud. But who monetises the bot traffic now? #ATSL15
— Ben Price (@Ben_Price1) September 14, 2015
so ad tech reports 55% of advertiser $ go to ad tech (IAB). Now largest indep ad tech company reports 65% of inventory is fraud (AppNexus).
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 15, 2015
Marco Bertozzi, global vice president of clients at Publicis-owned VivaKi, said it was “admirable” that AppNexus has tightened its controls on ad fraud, but it was rather late to do so.
“For some time we raised this in VivaKi as an issue, but they did not want to take responsibility for it, as regards people using their buy-side tech,” he said. “AppNexus is a company with a number of ad tech veterans and super bright people, I find it hard to believe they were not aware of many of the issues.”
Wayne Blodwell, head of programmatic at Dentus Aegis-owned iProspect, agreed that it has taken a long time for the company to address the issue.
“It’s great that a seller like AppNexus is investing time and technology into cleaning up their marketplace for buyers. However, could this have happened sooner? Definitely. Do other sellers need to follow suit? Absolutely,” he said.
„Begun the Ad-Blocking Wars Have”
sâmbătă, septembrie 19th, 2015
Chiar, de ce?
joi, septembrie 17th, 2015
Still don't understand why the answer to sites with invasive ads is not to simply not visit the site.
— Ben Thompson (@benthompson) September 17, 2015