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Kurt Unkel is Senior Vice President of Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center. AdExchanger.com: What differentiates VivaKi Nerve Center from other trading platforms in the marketplace? KU: To be clear, the VivaKi Nerve Center isn’t just a trading platform. The VNC is group of digital and R&D experts committed to building pathways between clients and their most […]

We have exchanges. We have trading. We have media. And, we have data. What are we missing? How about “Real-Time Bidding,” or RTB, for short? With RTB, exchange participants have a new feature coming for the buy side which should make agency business intelligence mucky-mucks and advertisers delirious after watching the development of yield management […]

Barry Lowenthal is President of kirshenbaum bond + partners‘ The Media Kitchen. AdExchanger.com: Why will measuring effectiveness as well as understanding how to monetize “earned” or social media be a key for advertising in the future? BL: Measuring effectiveness of social media is critical, if simply because money flows to the most measurable media. It’s […]

Joe Zawadzki is CEO of MediaMath, a media trading solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: When “last we left” MediaMath, the New York Times had just featured you. What’s been happening over the past 9 months? Any updates you can share about traction, product line, etc.? JZ: We’ve been fortunate to continue our two-year consistent growth trajectory, despite […]

What a week! Great insight from a growing list of key industry figures in the ad exchange space on AdExchanger.com. Heady advertising technology excitement from the past week’s Ad:Tech San Francisco show. Apparently, Ad:Tech has not lost any steam in spite of the economy if the Twitter buzz is to be believed. There is a […]

Darren Herman is the Founder and President of Varick Media Management, the audience and media platform backed by MDC Partners, one of the world’s leading advertising holding companies. AdExchanger.com: Varick Media Management appears to be gaining traction according to your press release in January. Any updates? DH: Our heads have been down at VMM focusing […]

Henry Wong is Chief Executive Officer of Adgregate Markets, a transactional performance ad network. AdExchanger.com: Given you and your team’s experience (AdECN), how important is your familiarity with ad exchanges in the success of Adgregate Markets? HW: Given the experience of the management team with AdECN, we understand the value that ad exchanges can bring […]

Michael Katz is President and Founder of InterClick. AdExchanger.com: Is it more difficult being a public company than private in the advertising industry? Does this give an advantage to your competitors? Good question, I get asked this a lot. There have been many advantages and disadvantages to being public. I think being public has provided […]

Nathaniel Turner is Co-Founder, President & COO of Invite Media. AdExchanger.com: What is Invite Media and how did it begin? NT: Invite has built what we call a “universal buying platform,” Bid Manager. In one sentence, Bid Manager allows an agency, ad network or media buyer to automatically buy and manage display media across multiple […]

Div Bhansali is director of self-service products for Platform-A, and serves as product manager for Platform-A’s self-service display advertising solutions, BidPlace SB and LeadBack.com. Div came to Platform-A by way of AOL / Advertising.com, where he served as Product Development Director. AdExchanger.com: What is Platform-A’s BidPlace SB and tell us about BidPlace’s product pipeline? DB: […]