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Adi Orzel is CEO of Xtend Media, an online display advertising network. AdExchanger.com: How will ad networks need to change to remain viable? AO: I think that ad networks will need to rely much more on media buying, rather than developing their publisher networks, due to the fact that more and more publisher relationships will […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. We Advertise Therefore We Regulate Given the recent moves by the EU, it would appear that Google is taking the stance that it needs to become more involved in regulation. The Guardian notes that Google is stepping up its relationship with the UK regulatory […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. The CEO of a major ad exchange recently likened the flow of data from real-time ad exchanges to a fire hose – I like to think of it as more of a broken water main. There is so […]

If reports are true, in a boon to advertising and technology companies in the rest of the world, The European Union appears to have effectively killed off any innovation for its native online advertising industry as the opt-in cookie law will be put into effect 18 months from now. More coverage from Tech Radar here. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Automotive Drives Online From its Q3 earnings call yesterday, Scripps SVP of Newspapers, Mark Contreras, said in regards to future automotive advertising trends, “Automotive, I still think we’ll see this gap in performance between print and online with continued decline in print, but some […]

By John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchanger.com. “Hey Frankie – have you heard? Brand safety solutions are the rage!” [Cue the surf music.] Within the recent demand-side platform (DSP) trend where advertisers effect buying strategies across multiple supply sources – and potentially hundreds of websites -, a growing list of companies and products is emerging to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Intent Data Featured The power of targeting data enabled by data exchanges such as BlueKai and eXelate are featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Emily Steel called, “Target-Marketing Becomes More Communal.” The article brings light to the unwashed masses on how intenders […]

“Ad Agents” is a new column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Greg Hills is platform analyst of media trading agency, Varick Media Management. Digital media has caused huge shifts in the advertising industry, including the rise of the Digital-Driven Media Agency — media shops that have identified digital media as the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft And OpenX Get Cozy OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan has made a multi-year deal with Microsoft that will make OpenX technology more widely available and allow his company to leverage (what looks to be) Microsoft’s PubCenter contextual targeting for OpenX customers. Microsoft gets access […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. How Much Longer For Addressable TV? Andrew Hampp of Ad Age interviews David Verklin of the cable television industry’s Canoe Project, which aims to deliver addressable media for advertisers through its cable partners. It’s looking like 2010 as some partners push ahead with their […]

Roll out the red carpet as the annual, biggest-week-in-ad-technology erupts next week in New York City. Contenders (and maybe a few pretenders) will take part in the OMMA Ad Nets show on Tuesday, November 3 and ad:tech New York show to be held from November 4-6. OMMA Ad Nets at the Crowne Plaza Times Square, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turn Says RTB Working In a release, demand-side platform Turn announced that it is seeing “dramatic” initial results in its real-time bidding integrations with PubMatic and AdMeld. The company says that it’s seeing conversion rates more than double the rates seen with non-Real-Time Bidding […]

Sam Barnett is CEO of Struq, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Would you say that the secret sauce in Struq‘s technology sn the matching of ads according to a behavioral profile? How is this different than other solutions which retarget and match users with specific creative? Display ads have a poor click-through rate and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Kafka On AdECN Exchange Peter Kafka of All Things D is reporting that the next edition of the AdECN Exchange from Microsoft will not get rolled out until early next year. This past July, Jed Nahum said in an interview with AdExchanger.com that the […]

Jonathan Mendez is CEO of RAMP Digital, a digital, performance media agency. AdExchanger.com: Why did you found your performance marketing agency, RAMP Digital? JM: I was becoming much more interested in emergent technologies for delivering relevance, namely APIs and semantic driven tools. At Offermatica (now Omniture Test&Target) our platform was 100% JavaScript and while that […]

By John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchanger.com. For starters, if I were a publisher these days, I’d become a buyer. I’m not exactly sure how this happens. What should publishers buy, after all? But, publishers need to jump into the weeds and close their gap of understanding when it comes to the rapid innovation occurring on […]

Andy Moeck is CEO of ADISN, a creative optimization technology firm. AdExchanger.com: Why did you start Adisn? AM: We started ADISN because we were tired of seeing ads or having ads served to us with zero relevance to what we were doing and interested in at that time.  From that point, we saw a few […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Optimizing Travel Display Ads Rita Chang of Advertising Age profiles agency, Click Here, and how it’s using Teracent’s multi-variate, display ad campaign management system to effect real-time updates and optimization for advertiser Travelocity. Chang notes that as a result, Travelocity’s cost-per-transaction is down 79%. […]

“Ad Agents” is a new column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Martin Kelly is co-Founder and Managing Partner of UK-based agency, Infectious Media Ltd. On a recent trip to New York, Infectious Media met with Adexchanger.com amongst others to chat about the exchange space. The sector is growing rapidly in the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. OMG Digital And Fox Partner Reminding everyone that Fox has a demand-side platform, too, Fox Audience Network (FAN) and Omnicom Media Group announced that FAN will provide its planning tools called Living Segments to the media services agency. According to the release, “The agreement […]

Amiad Solomon is CEO of Peer39, an online semantic advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe momentum in 2009 for Peer39. AS: This has been a breakout year for us as we have been recognized as the leading innovator in the field of semantic advertising and targeting. Early in 2009 we started working primarily with publishers […]

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As retailers prepare to enter their busiest season – Q4 and the holidays –  Akamai has announced its ADS predictive segments solution for online retailers who want to reach in-market consumers and drive incremental sales.  The new product is part of Akamai’s Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) line. How big is the in-market opportunity? According to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Releases Campaign Insights Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth looks at Google’s answer to Microsoft’s engagement mapping called “Campaign Insights.” According to Learmonth, Google compares data from the advertiser’s ad server and marries that to data from the Google Toolbar (- so that’s what it’s […]

Matt Spiegel is CEO of OMG Digital. This is the second part of a two-part interview. The first is here. AdExchanger.com: Given the speed of technological innovation today, some might say that media agencies will need to be more entrepreneurial, but they’re going to have a hell of a time because they’re just not built […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Top Ad Networks For September ComScore released its top 50 ad networks and web properties by U.S. reach in September. 24/7 Real Media continues to climb the ad network charts with WPP Group’s demand at its back as over 150 million U.S. unique users […]

Matt Spiegel is CEO of OMG Digital. This is the first part of a two-part interview. AdExchanger.com: Can you characterize what the buyer/planners of the future will look like? It would seem they have a math skillset and are focused on consumer insights – not just looking over an ad network plan and reporting the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Site For Exposing Fraudsters Following Emily Steel’s article in the Wall Street Journal about disappearing ads, it has come to AdExchanger.com’s attention that several ad networks have come together to out fraudsters and their sites. Called StopAdFraud.org, the site has comments and URL logs […]

There has been a growing waterfall of chatter about audience buying in online display advertising. Ad networks, demand-side buying platforms (DSPs) – whatever you want to call them – are targeting audience. Give me auto-intenders – stat! The venture capital world has taken a flying leap into the space as many of the big name […]

Shaukat Shamim is CEO & Co-Founder of Permuto. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea for Permuto come from? And how about the name – what’s the story there? SS: We are a company comprised of online advertising junkies, all of the founders been involved in online advertising from the formation days of Internet. We had our […]