David Kaplan is a former Video/Publishing Platforms editor for AdExchanger.com. A New York City-based journalist for over 20 years, Kaplan has covered media, advertising and marketing. A former staff reporter at paidContent, Adweek and MediaPost, he has also written for Advertising Age, Broadcasting & Cable, Crain’s New York Business, The New York Post, Newsday and the Boston Globe; he has also covered financial issues for the Bond Buyer and Worth magazine.
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Kellogg's Bob Arnold: 'We Don't Care About Clicks'
Bob Arnold, associate director, Global Digital Strategy at the Kellogg Company, got a huge round of applause during a talk about the cereal marketer’s approach to programmatic buying when told the crowd at the IAB’s Advertising Technology conference not to talk to bring up the topic of banner ad clicks in a meeting with him. […]
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TiVo Continues Expansion Of Shared Set-Top Box Data With Simulmedia
Over the past several years, TiVo has looked to find ad tech alliances to put its extensive data to use in attracting marketers looking to access its deep information on households via the set-top box. The latest partnership (see release) represents an extension of its work with Simulmedia, one of the earlier companies to make […]
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Luminate’s Edwards: Brand Advertisers Look Better In Images -Not Text
It’s been a year since photo ad network Pixazza morphed into Luminate, which a wider platform for sharing, indexing and monetizing publishers’ online images. The four-year-old Google Ventures-backed Mountain View company has steadily been rebuilding itself from an “AdSense for Images” into a platform for consumer-facing image apps, as Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards tells […]
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Viggle's Arrix: Moving From The First Screen To The Second One
It’s the middle of 2012 and despite expectations of a consolidation among the dozens of social TV/entertainment apps that attempt to connect mobile usage to TV viewing, the space is continuing to see additional players rather than expanding. For example, this summer, UK-based second-screen social TV app Zeebox is scheduled to be available in U.S. […]
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Sharethrough's Greenberg: Brands Have To Be More Like (Great) Content Producers
Earlier this month, social media marketer Sharethrough unveiled an social distribution app for viral video discovery called Sharethrough.tv. There’s nothing earth-shattering about that, though it does have a different focus on curation than others in the same space. The difference is that Sharethrough.tv is aimed at ad agencies, marketers, producers, press, bloggers and others who are […]
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Komli Media Adds $39 Million For Platform; Yahoo And CNBC Parnter; IAB Aims At Mobile Creative
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Komli Adds Millions Ad tech and ad network company Komli Media has gone to the bank as the company announced yesterday $39 million have been added to its venture capital-infused coffers. Crunchbase says Komli has raised $60 million all-time. This latest “inside round” was […]
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Loving, Hating And Misunderstanding The GRP - @ ARF 7.0
It’s hard to find any love for the Gross Ratings Point as relevant metric for online advertising, and any affection for that measurement was plainly absent at a late afternoon panel on the subject at the ARF Audience Measurement 7.0 conference in Times Square. The lone defender of the metric was the panel’s moderator, Gian […]
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Rovi Wraps Analytics For Online And Advanced TV Together
As ad tech companies make inroads in doing that, Rovi Corp., the company that both serves as the TV Guide of smart TVs and the operator of an ad network on connected sets, is unveiling a data product that’s designed for cross platform deals, starting from the set-top box and continuing to the web. In […]
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IAB’s Rothenberg: 'Microsoft’s DNT Reversal Makes No Sense'
Microsoft’s apparent abandonment the Digital Advertising Alliance’s industrywide agreement that “Do Not Track” should be a strictly opt-in has surprised and concerned Interactive Advertising Bureau President and CEO Randall Rothenberg. Still, the IAB head, in a conversation with AdExchanger, was clear that although Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 10 browser come with an active “Do Not […]
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Display Still Surging, But Some Key Players Appear To Soften
There’s no question that display advertising continues to be one of the fastest growing parts of online advertising, but some of the largest bellwethers in the space appeared to stumble in Q1. Both AOL and Yahoo experienced slight declines in display, and even Facebook had to admit just prior to issuing its troubled IPO a […]