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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Reports Q1 Earnings The Wall Street Journal’s Nick Wingfield reports that Microsoft’s “revenue from its cash cow Windows division rose 28% from a year earlier to $4.42 billion.” (Read about it.) The company was easily profitable (<- understatement) in Q1 2010 earning over […]

Andy Ellenthal discussed his recent appointment as CEO of Peer39, a semantic advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Given past roles at DoubleClick, PointRoll and quadrantONE, what areas of your experience do you think will be particularly useful as you assume the CEO role at Peer39? AE: Certainly each of my previous roles has been tremendous learning […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook “Likes” Web CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to the social networking giant’s platform at Facebook’s F8 developer conference.  In addition to the Facebook Connect brand disappearing (covered here by CNET), Zuckerberg says simply, “We have redesigned Facebook Platform to offer a simple […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Special ad:tech San Francisco “Express” Edition…. Yahoo Reports Higher Earnings on Microsoft Search Deal – ClickZ. And, earnings call transcript: “Display advertising grew 20% year-over-year ahead of the market. More importantly, guaranteed display grew by 24% as large advertisers came back. That means their […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hearst Eyeballing iCrossing Hearst is on the verge of purchasing digital marketing firm, iCrossing, for around $375 million according to Emily Steel and Suzanne Vranica of The Wall Street Journal. The acquisition would come in the footsteps of Dentsu’s purchase of digital marketing firm, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ad:tech Party, Uh, Conference This Week This week, the annual San Francisco version of ad:tech comes to the cavernous Moscone Center in downtown SF. Lots of panels, likely lots of booths (exhibitor list here). And, free drinks and apps (edible kind) galore, as parties […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Uncorks Q1 Eric Schmidt was not on the earnings call, but Susan Wojcicki, VP of Product Management was – in fact, that was her first-ever appearance on the quarterly conference call (I think). Display and new monetization efforts were front-and-center. Regarding overall quarterly […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Acquires Adroit Interactive Adroit Interactive – with multi-variate creative technology, an impressive client list and smart people – has been acquired by demand-side platform, MediaMath. Read more on ClickZ. Birds Of Feather Featured The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel looks at “birds of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Ad Model Is Here At long last, we can all rest easy as Twitter has announced it’s new ad-supported, revenue model. (And, I thought it was going to be all about merch.) According to Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times, “The […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Meeker Means More Mobile In an update to her Internet Report from late last year where she said 2010 would be the year of mobile, Mary Meeker spoke at an event at Google yesterday and delivered an “Internet Trends” report. Fear not, mobile is […]

Continuing our look at “Transparency and Exchanges” (see post), Yahoo! Right Media‘s Senior Director of Professional Services, Megan Pagliuca, discussed her company’s view in answer to the following question: Regarding the recent dust-up between an ad network and several publishers as highlighted in Mediaweek, is more transparency needed from exchanges, for example? Or should this […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Network And Publishers In Mediaweek Following last week’s article in which Mediaweek reporter Mike Shields identified several publishers who claimed that ad network, InterCLICK, had misrepresented their inventory, this week, each is given the Mediaweek microphone to state their case. Read more. InterCLICK […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Signs Of Life The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel notes that Internet ad spending has re-started its growth trajectory according to new figures from the IAB and Pricewaterhouse Coopers as Q4 2009 spending increased 2.6%. The numbers still pale in comparison to TV dollars […]

AdExchanger.com reached out to members of the digital advertising ecosystem to explore transparency and the role of exchanges, buyers and sellers of online media and their intermediaries. AdExchanger.com welcomes your comments at the end of this post. The question is as follows: Regarding the recent dust-up between an ad network and several publishers as highlighted […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google/AdMob Deal Review The Wall Street Journal looks at the FTC’s inquiry into Google buying AdMob. From a distance, it appears that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission might scuttle the deal due to anti-trust concerns. The WSJ reports, “[The FTC] sent letters to AdMob’s […]

It’s a rumor at this point, but an anonymous source informs AdExchanger.com that a “major” complaint is likely to be filed tomorrow by a consumer organization that “strikes at the heart of real-time bidding.” As many of you know, real-time bidding is believed to provide greater efficiency in digital display advertising by allowing advertisers and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The RTB Deal On ClickZ, Razorfish’s Matt Greitzer takes a look at real-time bidding and explains the audience-buying meaning: “Real-time bidding, for sure, represents an opportunity to extend micro-segmentation and price de-averaging to the extreme… But, marketers and agencies should be clear on where, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brightcove Gets $12 Million More Bringing its grand total to $99 million in venture capital raised (let’s pass the hat and get ’em up to an even $100 mil), Brightcove announced that it has raised $12 million led by existing investors Accel Partners and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Selling And Exchanges Mediaweek’s Mike Shields says that several financial website publishers – such as Bloomberg, TheStreet.com and WSJ.com – dispute ad network InterCLICK’s assertions that it can re-sell their inventory. interCLICK president, Michael Katz, told Shields that his company had done nothing wrong […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Venture-Backed Exits Up Dow Jones VentureSource has already released a review of 1st quarter venture activity for 2010 and identified among other findings that “Eight U.S. venture-backed companies raised $711 million by going public on U.S. stock exchanges, matching the number of initial public […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. UK’s Online Strength It’s good news for UK online advertising according to the results of a IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers advertising spend report. Read more. From the IAB’s UK site: “The UK internet advertising sector increased revenues by 4.2% to £3.54 billion in 2009, up […]

OpenX announced a major expansion of its exchange strategy and infrastructure as it will partner with Orange-France Telecom Group to create the Orange Ad Market. According to a release, “The initial launch will take place in the second quarter of 2010 in the UK and France with planned launches following elsewhere in Orange’s European footprint.” […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Banking Bill: A Startup Killer The NextNY blog makes an impassioned plea to torpedo certain parts of Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd’s banking bill which will undermine the efforts of a critical part of the startup capital value chain in the U.S. – angel investors […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online Video Ad Upfront The Upfront, as it has been known, is a time of year where marketers and broadcast media companies lock down big deals for the year. Mediaweek’s Mike Shields says that online video ad networks are out to “steal” a share […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Better Advertising And The “i” Scott Meyer’s Better Advertising will be enabling the “i” as IPG Mediabrands’ Cadreon will use the new privacy icon initiative in an upcoming Microsoft campaign according to Wendy Davis of MediaPost. “The icon — an ‘i’ in a circle […]

Sacha Berlik is CEO & Co-Founder of Mexad, an auction-based Ad Exchange specialists company. AdExchanger.com: Looking at your experience as GM in Western Europe for Oridian, what learnings are you bringing forward to Mexad? SB: Oridian had account No.1 on Right Media back in 2005 – our CTO had been Director of AdExchange Management for […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Koretz Sticks It To Display Firebrand David Koretz takes out the cattle prod and says just what he thinks about display advertising: “It is easier to buy nuclear arms in the former Soviet Union than complete an online display buy.” Then Koretz lists “five […]

Today, Google announced that it is enabling Google AdWords advertisers to remarket to its users by letting them cookie their users, and then buy display ad inventory that match those user cookies on the Google Content Network. Read the announcement by Google Product Manager Aitan Weinberg on the AdWords blog. Hello? Anyone there? This is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. It’s Time For Creative Display In the second of a series of Google thought leadership pieces on display advertising, VP Neal Mohan ropes in the importance of creativity, the creative (the human) and the creative (the display ad). Mohan concludes, “It’s the goal of […]