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” […]
Michael Rubenstein, who managed the ongoing operations of Google Doubleclick’s ad exchange product (AdX), has joined cloud-computing and real-time advertising infrastructure company, AppNexus. Rubenstein told AdExchanger.com that after 3.5 years of growing AdX, it seemed like the right time to pursue his entrepreneurial instincts. At AppNexus, he’ll become the company’s President. He added that his […]
Helene Monat is President, AdSafe Media, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What challenge does AdSafe Media solve for marketers? HM: AdSafe Media was founded with the goal of helping brands implement safe and successful digital advertising strategies. While many brands and agencies have adopted best practices for advertising on the Internet, the complexities of the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The IDG Ad Network Spencer Ante of Businessweek looks at how traditional print publisher, IDG, has created an ad network that not only sells advertising for its own properties but other non-IDG properties, too, as well as distributes content to those properties. It’s a […]
Eric Wheeler is CEO of 33Across, a social advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Any update you can provide on momentum at 33Across? Hey, what does the name, 33Across, mean anyway? EW: We’re working with a number of major brands and media agencies – The 33Across SocialDNA™ platform enables marketers to identify and anonymously target people with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. First Half Online Ad Spend Down Ad Age’s Nat Ives looks at the wreck that has been in world of media in the first half of 2009 in comparison to 2008 according to a study by Nielsen. The online good news was cable spend […]
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman’s “How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade” details the development of spy info company, Palantir Technologies from Palo Alto, California. The young, successful, outlier of a company has burst through the pack to provide leading edge solutions to the U.S. intelligence world. Hmm.. this sounds familiar. According to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. VivaKi Rebrands Exchange in India Publicis’ David Kenny continues his globetrotting and tells Kapil Ohri of “afaqs!” in India that “India Media Exchange (IMX) — the consolidated media buying arm of Starcom MediaVest Group, Zenith Optimedia and Solutions Digitas – will be renamed as […]
Jon Baron is Co-Founder and General Manager of TagMan. AdExchanger.com: What challenge is Tag Man solving for advertisers? How do you help publishers? JB: TagMan addresses a challenge facing all businesses involved in digital media. At all levels of the digital media business (creative through to publisher placement through to buying/selling) there is a transition […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Displaying In Social Media Peter Kafka of All Things D looks at display advertising CPMs in social media thanks to Comscore Media Metrix. Kafka notes that MySpace and Facebook “accounted for 17.4 percent of the display ads in the U.S” in July according to […]
Michael Brunick is VP, Media Technology Director at Mediabrands Worldwide, a media buying and planning unit of Interpublic Group. AdExchanger.com: In your opinion, what is driving creation of agency buying platform strategies? MB: Agencies have more control and insight into how media dollars are spent for their clients. They also have access to more sensitive […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ad:tech Chicago Cranks Up In Chicago, today and tomorrow, ad:tech Chicago takes place at historic Navy Pier. A jam-packed agenda includes opening keynote speaker Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of Denuo and Chief Innovation Officer at Publicis Groupe Media as well as many other representatives from […]
Mark Redgrave is Founder & CEO of OpenAmplify, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: How did your experience at an agency (HHCL Group in London) prepare you for running OpenAmplify? MR: I was lucky to work under some really brilliant client services and creative teams on some of the world’s most important brands. I learned […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RTB at Yahoo!’s RightMedia Right Media’s Senior Manager of Professional Services, Pedro Ponce de Leon, announced on Thursday from the Right Media blog, that the Yahoo! exchange has real-time bidding and that “using Right Media’s predictive algorithms is the best path to take, as […]
Eyal Goldwerger, CEO of TargetSpot, an Internet radio advertising network. AdExchanger.com: What momentum has TargetSpot seen in 2009 for itself as well as its clients? 2009 is going to be a year of accelerating growth at TargetSpot, driven by rising advertiser demand. This is a result of both an increase in our advertisers’ budgets, as […]
John Vincent is CEO of EyeWonder, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: How would you like to see standards evolve for in-stream video ad inventory? And in-page video ad inventory? JV: Standardization is still a work in progress for the in-stream industry, so at this point we’d really like to see more of it in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. We Have A Winner The advertising industry may have finally found an able spokesperson in the human form of Berin Szoka, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. (The title alone is impressive!) Szoka, in an interview […]
Calvin Lui is CEO and President of Tumri, a creative optimization technology company. AdExchanger.com: What trends have you seen at Tumri in 2009? Can you characterize trends in revenue momentum, deal size, client verticals, consumer audience targets, etc.? CL: Tumri has experienced tremendous growth and momentum in the last 18 months. While we are a private […]
George John is CEO of Rocket Fuel, Inc., an online advertising network. AdExchanger.com: How do you see the role of the ad network evolving over the next 12-24 months? Will ad network arbitrage disappear? It has been hyped that the ad network marketplace is overly crowded with more than 400 players. But when you take […]
Can a good sales presentation offset the impact of a very bad news week? That’s a question for Meta, which collected two guilty verdicts in court this week for failing to protect children and creating additive products.
Meet Clamor, a new social listening product that pulls cultural insights from online conversations in real time. Clamor helped Manscaped freshen up its marketing, including for this year’s Super Bowl.
Hotel chain Red Roof is using Zeta’s new voice-activated AI agent to guide its campaign creation, deployment timing and audience development.
Brave’s chief of ads Jean-Paul Schmetz on competition in the search and browser markets, the fallout from the Google Search antitrust ruling and whether AI search will help smaller upstarts compete with Big Tech.
Walmart and Vizio announced at NewFronts that unified account logins are coming to smart TVs using Vizio’s operating system.
The age-old question for streaming TV advertisers is, how to target the viewers they want while reaching the scale their businesses need. The quick-serve restaurant operator CKE, which owns Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, sought an answer in a case study with Attain and Amazon Ads.
