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Month: March 2009

  • Interactive Marketing Associations Busy Interacting - Even About Ad Exchanges

    Many regional interactive marketing associations are busy with panels and symposia about digital marketing strategy and tactics – even exchanges! The Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AIMA – Facebook link) provided a panel to its members on ad networks and exchanges this past week that included Google and Yahoo!. Upcoming, on April 8, the IAB comes […]

  • Ad Network Vizi Catches Publisher's Ad Serving Fraud on Video

    After complaints about malware and pornographic ads on its network, Vizi came out with a video yesterday which addresses publisher fraud. As you may recall, Vizi claims that ad network Oridian was serving unwanted pornographic ads via the Right Media Exchange, but has since cut Oridian loose from its network chain. Ad Operations Online’s Otilia […]

  • BlueKai and eXelate Ad Data Exchanges Featured

    BlueKai and eXelate hit the PR jackpot today with a feature article in the NY Times. Though the article written by Stephanie Clifford ends with a thud, it hits on a core reason exchanges exist and expand today. Clifford quotes BlueKai CEO, Omar Tawakol, saying, “People are realizing that it’s the data that drives the […]

  • Contextweb Takes On Vibrant Media, Kontera With In-Text Ads

    Expanding its toolkit for publishers, Contextweb announced today that it will make available in-text ads for publishers on the Adsdaq exchange beginning March 31. Leveraging its contextual technology, Contextweb will enter the same space which Vibrant Media and Kontera have dominated in the recent past in a battle-contextual-royale. Contextweb’s Jay Sears explains how in-text ads […]

  • Digitas, Media Contacts, Razorfish Talk Ad Exchanges At Search Engine Strategies

    Today, Day 2 of Search Engine Strategies NYC, featured a collection of agency executives who discussed the current online display advertising market in a panel titled, “Pardon My Reach: A Snapshot of the Display Ad Marketplace.” With AdExchanger.com’s focus on ad exchanges, this was an opportunity to learn about agency opinion and innovations as it […]

  • Cloudy Computer Future Is Good For Ad Exchanges

    Today’s announcement that Steve Perelman’s OnLive may have potentially disintermediated game console providers has the blogosphere a-chirping. The company has created a new compression which allows data used for online game services to be computed on distant servers – cloud computing servers – instead of through a game console or speedy, local computers.  Considering the […]

  • The OPA Agenda: Declare War on the Long Tail and Blogs

    From Today’s AdAge article, “Media Giants Want to Top Google Results” by Nat Ives: “You should not have a system,” one content executive said, “where those who are essentially parasites off the true producers of content benefit disproportionately.” Load the cannons! Kiss the loved ones goodbye! This is WAR! Premium publisher titans undoubtedly led by […]

  • Google Advertising Strategy: All Your Exchange Are Belong To Us

    It’s coming. It’s the second Google “killer app” after search advertising. It’s Google’s advertising exchanges! – the exclusive location for Google Search retargeting as long as Big G can survive the privacy tidal wave. The Evolution of the Killer App A long time ago, in an ad world far, far away… For many years, Google […]

  • Air and Liquid: Social Media and Ad Exchanges

    Considering the glacial migration towards premium AND remnant inventory exchanges by the online ad industry, the attributes of social media and ad exchanges have a lot in common these days aside from the fact that social media display ad inventory is unloaded through exchanges. Whether we want to admit it or not, both mediums prominent […]

  • Ad Exchange News Links for Wednesday, March 18

    It’s been a while since we served up linkage. So, here we go – ad exchange-related news. Financial Times writer, John Gapper, says that skepticism reigns regarding online ad exchanges – only for the uninformed, John. But, opposing viewpoints are always welcome here at AdExchanger.com. Apparently, big brands and newspaper sites may “shun” the advertising […]

  • Future Ad Exchange: The Media Profile

    For the ad exchange model, liquidity and scale are factors in determining price for media. And, of course, so is data. Today, behavioral impressions are bought and sold, contextual impressions are bought and sold, etc. In the future, among several ways to trade advertising, including online display advertising, we suggest the “media profile” value. The […]

  • Large Publishers Swarm as Pubmatic Premier and Funding Arrives

    Today’s Media Post reports that yield optimizer, Pubmatic, led by CEO Rajeev Goel, is providing new tools to large publishers which he says already comprises 80% of the inventory among the 5,500 Pubmatic publishers. From Media Post’s Mark Walsh: PubMatic Premiere is aimed at publishers with more than $5 million in annual online revenue, and […]

  • The Disintermediation of Ad Agencies

    Darren Herman of MDC Partners‘ Varick Media Management recently published his thoughts on the disintermediation of online display advertising and, by extension, ad networks. Though it cannot be said we’re in complete agreement, it is a well-conceived argument that plots a path to success for savvy ad agencies who are ready to bring ad exchange […]

  • Oh, Behave: Google Targets Behavioral Advertising and Privacy

    Google is interested in your interests. The Google monolith announced today that its next option for advertisers will include behavioral targeting, and Miguel Helft of the NY Times wisely posits that the acquisition of DoubleClick and its technology is becoming more visible in Google strategy. From “Google’s Official Blog,” Susan Wojcicki, VP, Product Management, writes: […]

  • New OPA Display Ads to Help Ad Networks and Exchanges

    The Online Publishers Association has nobly decided to help the world of display advertising by introducing three, online display ad sizes. Each new ad unit will be implemented and sold only through participating publishers’ direct sales teams later this year. Implicit is that ad networks and exchanges will not be selling these units. Yeah, right. […]

  • Web Publisher Tools for the Exchange: FireMeld from AdMeld

    Amidst the mayhem of the current AdMonsters Publisher Forum in New Orleans which brings together ad operations professionals and their ad technology vendors comes news! AdMeld, led by CEO Michael Barrett and founders Ben Barokas and Brian Adams, has released a new tool for client publishers. AdMeld‘s FireMeld enables the ad operations team of web […]

  • Razorfish 2009 Outlook: The Ad Exchange Is Our Future

    Are those pork bellies or M&M’s in the picture? Ad exchanges get premium billing in Razorfish’s just-released 2009 Digital Outlook paper (PDF here). In the “What’s emerging” section of the paper, Razorfish has imbibed the ad exchange Kool-aid with a four-page spread entitled, “Ad Exchanges: Revolutionizing the Buy-Sell Process.” The exchange feature is even before […]

  • Schmidt on Google Ad Exchange; Yahoo! Premium Display Stabilizes

    Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday. During the on-stage interview with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, (a little) more information dribbled out on Big G’s ad exchange and display advertising strategy. From CNN: Schmidt also said the search advertising company has a good opportunity […]

  • Pubmatic Opens To Advertisers

    This news likely crossed under the radar for many but yield optimizer, Pubmatic, took another step forward into the exchange model by allowing ad networks open API access – the ability to buy from its network of website publishers. To date, yield optimizers have served member publishers by aggregating, and then testing (sometimes may also […]

  • Ad Agencies, Exchanges And The Disintermediation Opportunity

    A flood of behavioral targeting company news coincided with the OMMA Behavioral conference at the Marriott Marquis in NYC this past Thursday. In ClickZ, Michael Katz of interClick noted the recent appearance of new data “intermediaries” – such as yield optimizers Rubicon Project, “meta network” MediaMath and ad data exchanges like Media 6° and BlueKai […]