Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $12.5 Million For MediaMath MediaMath announced today (Release here.) that it has rung the register and collected a cool $12.5 million to drive “continued expansion — with a focus on technology research and product development, executive and staff recruitment, tactical acquisitions, and geographic expansion.” […]
Tara Walpert Levy is President of Visible World, a provider of targeted television solutions. AdExchanger.com: What momentum has Visible World seen in 2009 for itself as well as its clients? TWL: Visible World’s business is up substantially in 2009, despite the tough economic environment. While many advertisers are cutting back on TV advertising, they are […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Karin Blake, Senior Lead of Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. An Economist piece two weeks ago centered on the popular question of how social media companies will monetize their networks and whether or not banner advertising could be their revenue savior. The explosive growth of users […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo!’s New PR Firm First, The New York Times runs an article by Brad Stone and Ashlee Vance offering insider details on what a great deal (follow closely) Microsoft thinks that Yahoo! received in handing over search to Microsoft. Yesterday , Kara Swisher on […]
Andy Cocker and Martin Kelly are co-Founders and Managing Partners of UK-based, Infectious Media Ltd. AdExchanger.com: How does the UK advertising marketplace perceive exchanges today? What can be improved? IM: There’s still a lot of misinformation being peddled in the UK around Ad Exchanges. Some of this comes from Networks who probably feel that exchanges […]
Mike Lewis is President and Co-Founder of Ad-Juster, an ad server discrepancy management company. As you have said in your release, Ad-Juster looks to solve “two of the digital ad industries major pain points: 3rd party reporting and discrepancy identification.” Can you share momentum you have seen with Ad-Juster’s product in 2009? And, who needs […]
Demand-side platforms are becoming the rage. Whether you’re creating an agency platform strategy or offering white-label solutions for all ad buyers including ad networks, agencies or directs. So, what’s driving the media buying platform trend and when will Nintendo release its console version? I’ll leave the Nintendo version alone for now (Imagine “Dance Dance Revolution” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The TV Upfront Show Turning To Exchanges? The heavily-publicized TV upfront “show” is winding down according to Anthony Crupi of MediaWeek and media chiefs are P.O.’d. Quoting an unnamed ad boss at a media company, presumably a network, the agencies were working hard to […]
Another privacy piece on the behavioral ad network business has been launched – this time by The New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford. In her piece entitled, “Ads Follow Web Users, and Get Deeply Personal,” web ads are considered “Orwellian.” Good god. That’s over the top and reminiscent of other recent pieces in the media (like […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital GRPs for Brand Marketers Comscore and Microsoft announced today that they are “develop[ing] a digital media planning solution, named the Reach and Frequency Planner (RF Planner), which will allow brand advertisers to predict reach, frequency and audience composition at the ad placement level.” […]
Paul Martino is CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. AdExchanger.com: What does the new Aggregate Knowledge (AK) Audience Discovery Platform do for advertisers and agencies that they can’t do today? AK’s Audience Discovery Platform delivers real-time, simultaneous optimization of inventory, audience, and creative. Inventory is optimized by determining which individual sites, ad networks, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search Retargeting Just Got Bigger Details on the forever imminent “Microsoft/Yahoo search deal” should happen today and AdAge claims that Yahoo! will run search ad sales for both companies. Also of note, according to AdAge’s Michael Learmonth, Yahoo!’s search retargeting product will now incorporate […]
Konrad Feldman is CEO of Quantcast, an online advertising solutions company. AdExchanger.com: Overall, what industry-wide trends are you seeing across your product lines in 2009? KF: From our vantage point we are seeing tremendous energy by brand advertisers and their publishing partners to unlock the value of real-time audiences. At the end of the day, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. TV Needs To Sell In Real-Time The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Vranica and Sam Schechner are reporting that the TV upfront for the four big networks is going to crater a whopping 10-15% – at least – as buyers like HP (quoted for the […]
Scott Knoll is SVP of Display Media for Datran Media, a digital marketing technology company. AdExchanger.com: What trends is Datran Media seeing from its digital media clients in 2009? SK: Datran Media monitors and reports on trends across media clients and advertisers, including responses to our annual industry survey. One of the biggest trends we […]
“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 Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. To my frustration, talking about proprietary vs. open software standards is a really good way to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Networking and Behaving This Week Hello Left Coast! More conferences this week for digital advertising enthusiasts as OMMA Ad Nets is in Los Angeles on Tuesday and OMMA Behavioral is in San Francisco on Thursday. The Right Media blog pipes up for the West Coast, “Most of the conferences tend […]
More earnings reports – ch-ching? Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer stepped up to the Microsoft Fiscal 4Q 2009 earnings microphone (see the release) and although he didn’t have a lot to say about advertising on the call – they’ve got a lotta stuff going on over there at MSFT – a few nuggets did slip out in […]
Philip Smolin, General Manager, Platform Solutions at Turn discusses yesterday’s announcement regarding their new, white-label buying platform solutions. AdExchanger.com: How do you differentiate with other solutions in the marketplace such as MediaMath and Invite Media? PS: Turn is best-in-class for custom audience targeting, optimization and analytics. A number of vendors are providing basic exchange management […]
Scott Portugal is SVP, Global Business Development at TRAFFIQ, an online advertising marketplace. AdExchanger.com: Discuss the momentum for TRAFFIQ in 2009. What’s going on right now? SP: What isn’t going on! Obviously, the announcement yesterday of our strategic partnership with Havas Digital is big news. We’re extraordinarily excited about the chance to work with an […]
Kum Bay Yah, Muh Lord. Kum Bay Yah. Congrats to the IAB on their lunch and learn event, “An Out of the Box Lunch with AdMeld, PubMatic, The Rubicon Project and YieldBuild,” in NYC last Thursday. It was a study in how players in the advertising space – in this case, yield optimizers – can […]
Chris Hulse is CEO of Inflection Point Media, a business-to-business ad network. Any current trends that you can share in Inflection Point Media‘s B2B ad network business – strengths, weaknesses? And, have publisher CPMs cratered like they have in the B2C world? Inflection Point Media’s complete focus on the SMB market has been our strength. […]
Is Twitter about to add contextual advertising? Seems like it as Twitter-watching AdRants noticed a well-known, beta tester checking out (and tweeting about) the new ad functionality – The New York Times’ Saul Hansell. Hansell tweets: “My last tweet was testing a new ad system that looks at what you Tweet about (like movies or […]
Google’s much anticipated Q2 earnings report has arrived and shed some light on display advertising. Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget covered the earnings conference call and jotted down the following from the Google execs: “Display and particularly YouTube have performed very well this quarter. YouTube is now on a trajectory we’re very pleased with.” Nikesh […]
Rob Leathern is CEO of CPM Advisors. AdExchanger.com: CPM Advisors… so I take it you believe the CPM is not dead? RL: CPM Advisors (“CPMa”) typically works with advertisers who are optimizing to a CPA or CPC metric, but realize that they cannot get volume and scale unless they can tap into CPM advertising options. […]
Yesterday’s ContextWeb/AdClub event which brought together NYC-area advertisers, publishers and traders has already yielded results in the form of a great blog post from MDC Partners/Varick Media Management‘s Darren Herman. <Ripple dissolve to yesterday’s summary on AdExchanger.com> Toward the event’s close, Herman quizzed yesterday’s IPG/Publicis/OMG/WPP panel on how they are preparing their culture and employees […]
Andrew Pancer is Chief Operating Officer at Media6Degrees. AdExchanger.com: How would you characterize momentum in 2009 for Media6Degrees? AP: 2009 has been a great year for Media6°! We officially launched our commercial product late last fall and have been able to deliver fantastic results for our marketing partners. An example referenced in Adweek on 6/28/09 […]
From WSJ Digits blog, the post, “Does Size Matter When Measuring Online Audience?” explores the way in which Comscore and Nielsen count audience with Quantcast noticeably absent. Nielsen is claiming to have launched the “Largest, Most Representative Online Audience Measurement Panel in U.S.” MediaPost editor-at-large, Diane Mermigas did a Q&A back on July 1 with […]
Whoa, Nellie – full house! People are getting the message about new opportunities in display ad exchanges and platforms as an impressive crowd of nearly 400 attended today’s Times Center event in NYC entitled, “Agency Demand Platforms: Art vs. Science in a Real-Time World,” co-sponsored by ContextWeb/ADSDAQ and New York’s Ad Club. After intros by […]
John Donahue is Global Director of Business Intelligence Analytics for Omnicom Media Group. AdExchanger.com: From your agency perspective, what trends are you seeing in the marketplace? JD: Digital up, TV down. I think we’re in a position where the economy is causing everyone to seize up their budgets. What’s going to be interesting is not […]
Upfront week is officially over. In case you missed any of the dog-and-pony shows — including Chappell Roan belting out “Pink Pony Club” during YouTube’s Broadcast — don’t worry; we’ve got you covered.
During upfronts, publishers flexed their ad performance muscles at media buyers all week long in an effort to appeal to the biggest demands media buyers have during their upfront negotiations: flexibility and results.
TelevisaUnivision and Disney took over Day Two of upfronts week in New York City on Tuesday, and the throughline was data quality.
Warner Bros. Discovery used its upfront stage to announce two new ad measurement efforts, including that it’s joining a CAPI-focused initiative led by OpenAP.
AdExchanger Senior Editor Alyssa Boyle and Associate Editor Victoria McNally traversed the island of Manhattan on Monday to scope out upfront presentations by NBCUniversal, Fox and Amazon.
Viant’s modest growth story took a backseat to a far louder claim: that fed-up advertisers are finally ready to ditch the rigged economics of Big Tech’s walled gardens.
