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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CPM Tea Party Shelby Bonnie, the CEO of Whiskey Media – and the co-founder of CNET – , says on TechCrunch that it’s time to kill the CPM as he speaks to his media publishing brethren who can’t seem to get a break as […]

Matt Spiegel is CEO of OMG Digital, the digital media buying division of Omnicom Group. Certainly, the new Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange will have big impact because it’s the first sizable pool of inventory which has real-time bidding – this is what we’ve been waiting for. Being able to buy using real-time bidding is important […]

Internet entrepreneur and now writer, Michael Wolff, opened today’s ContextWeb event on media trading saying, “This is a desperate time for the media business.” Well…. one person’s desperation is apparently someone else’s opportunity as a full-house invaded the Paley Media Center in New York City. Entitled,”Agency Demand Platforms: Is Everyone a Media Trader?,” the event […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a new column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. In 2006, Greg Stuart, Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO, estimated that advertisers’ waste, that is, […]

Adam Cahill is SVP, Director of Digital Media at Hill Holliday, a full-service communications agency. What trends are you seeing from your digital media clients today? Two of the more interesting trends are social media listening and rapid response marketing, and although clients have been asking for these independently, they’re actually closely related. Our clients […]

Joanna L. O’Connell is Manager of Strategic Development, ATOM Systems, Razorfish. The word “transparency” seems to be everyone’s favorite word these days. Clients want it, publishers fear it, and networks – increasingly – boast that they offer it. I’d like to propose that we’re thinking about this word in the wrong way and suggest that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $9 Million For Rubicon Project Rubicon Project brought in another $9 million in equity investment to “continue pursuing acquisitions and global expansion.” Leading in this round was GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund which invested $6 million investment with existing investors Clearstone Venture Partners and Mayfield […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ComScore and Omniture (and Adobe) Fresh off being acquired by Adobe, Omniture announced a new partnership with ComScore aimed at unifiying reporting of website analytics and audience measurement. Is this another step toward a better attribution model? It can’t hurt. Jonathan Mendez tweets that […]

Darren Herman is the Founder and President of Varick Media Management, an audience and media buying platform, and a unit of MDC Partners. DH: We (at VMM) are excited about the promise of the next version of exchanges. A lot of talk has been around real-time bidding and Google should deliver on this. The impact […]

Nathan Woodman is the Managing Director of Adnetik, Havas’ Digital Trading Network. NW: AdX 2.0 brings massive supply liquidity to the bidded online display media space. Especially with the addition of AdSense real estate. Google is looking to create an environment where display ad buyers compete with text ad buyers for pieces of AdSense real […]

Kurt Unkel is Senior Vice President of Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center. KU: I think volume of impressions and the real-time api of Google’s new exchange are the biggest benefits, as these address the scalability and operational challenges of the original Ad Exchange. These new benefits combined with the quality of participants and simplified billing, key […]

Michael Brunick is VP, Media Technology Director at Mediabrands Worldwide, a media buying and planning unit of Interpublic Group. MB: The rollout of Google’s updated DoubleClick Exchange offering – and the proliferation of other similar real time bidding platforms – marks a watershed moment in the progression towards truly dynamic, demand-driven advertising transactions. These mechanisms […]

Matt Greitzer is VP and Global Discipline Lead of Search Marketing at Razorfish. MG: I think it represents an industry tipping point. Google has already proven that they are the lead player in auction-based ad monetization. I think everyone is excited to see how they can apply their expertise to the next generation of biddable […]

Robbie Hills, CEO Asia Pacific, GroupM Search, a unit of WPP Group. The impact of Google DoubleClick’s Exchange is going to very much depend on the ability to behaviorally target, the markets they launch it in across the APAC region and the volume of inventory they can push through. Also if agencies are forced to […]

Adam Cahill is SVP, Director of Digital Media, Hill Holliday, a media and creative agency, and unit of Interpublic Group. AC: I think the launch of AdX 2.0 is an example of growing the pie as opposed to stealing share from a competitor because it’s going to bring lots of new sellers (AdSense and DART […]

David Smith is CEO of Mediasmith, a digital advertising media agency. The biggest impact will be the increased credibility and volume to the Exchange category. It should also give a big boost to the technology platforms like Turn, MediaMath and Invite which agencies are increasingly using to combine exchange purchasing with targeting options. Our concern […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Job Tales Om Malik of GigaOm reads the research of former UBS and current Broadpoint.AmTech analyst, Ben Schachter, and gets his take on the tale of the company job boards of Yahoo! and Google, respectively. According to Schachter, Google has been showing its cards […]

Frank Weishaupt is VP North American Marketplaces at Yahoo!. One reason I love this business is that it’s always evolving. Change is essential to success in online advertising…especially when it comes to ad exchanges. As the needs of ad networks, publishers, agencies and advertisers continue to change, exchanges have had to stay ahead of every […]

Mike Baker is CEO of DataXu, a demand-side, media buying platform. Tell us about your new agreement with Havas. What does this mean for DataXu? And, even advertising as a whole? We have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Havas.  Their marketplace insights have helped us apply our technology to make the process of buying and […]

Jason Glickman is CEO of Tremor Media, an online video advertising network. Adexchanger.com: On your website, you identify your #1 ranking in premium video views according to Comscore. What do you mean by “premium”? And, is there such a thing as non-premium video ad inventory? If so, does Tremor Media fill non-premium inventory and is […]

John Giuliani is Chairman and CEO of Dotomi, an online marketing agency. AdExchanger.com: What’s been happening at Dotomi in 2009? Any trends you can share on the client-side? Dotomi is very fortunate to be experiencing double digit growth in 2009 despite macro economic trends and a general decrease in overall advertising revenue. Marketers are looking […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting Reach Undertone Networks announced yesterday “U360 AudiencePlus™.” In an example from Undertone publishing partner A&E, the new offering is positioned as an audience retargeting solution which will retarget A&E visitors (cookied by Undertone), for example, when they visit other sites within the Undertone […]

DataXu came out of “stealth mode” today and stormed the stage at Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch 50 talent show. Among the nuggets to come from the presentation was a 150-200% improvement over “traditional” (digital) media buying methods using the DataXu real-time-bidding enabled platform according to presenting DataXu CEO Mike Baker. Baker also announced DataXu’s first major […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Not Everyone Wants AdSense Open Josh Dreller, VP of Media Technology for Fuor Digital, writes on the Search Engine Land blog that he was surprised that more SEMs who use the Google Content network weren’t upset by the recent announcement to open Content Network […]

Hello, search engine marketers. This one’s for you. Media traders, you may like this, too. There is no question that search engine marketing is a lucrative field that positions marketers as gatekeepers to the bottom of the digital purchase funnel for clients. Whether through organic listings using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques or through pay […]

Iggy Fanlo is CEO of AdBrite, an online advertising exchange. How’s business at AdBrite? Is the exchange model working? IF: The ad exchange model is very strong. We’re seeing incredible results from our targeting algorithms (black boxes). The addition of third party (open architecture) data and targeting algorithms is being implemented and the early results […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Transparency On Exchanges On ClickZ, Hill Holiday SVP, Director of Digital Media, Adam Cahill looks at the ad exchange space and says its time for more transparency so that buyers can see what website they’re getting. To date, many large publishers fear that unmasking […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. New demand-side platforms now make it possible to execute buying strategies and purchase directly across wide swaths of inventory, cutting out the middle-man aggregators. Agencies have to think about how this new technology impacts and changes their media […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Media Contacts Picks Tribal Fusion Tribal Fusion is taking their relationship with Media Contacts, “the global interactive media network of Havas Digital, the interactive division of Havas Media” to another strategic level and will be supplying the agency with nearly every service an agency […]

Turn announced today that Bill Demas has been promoted to CEO of Turn, Inc., an online advertising platform and network company. Jim Barnett, who stepped down from the CEO role, will remain as Chairman. According to the company, this secession plan has been in the works for a while and Demas has been “deeply involved” […]