John Ebbert is publisher and CEO of AdExchanger, an online trade publication he began in 2008. AdExchanger is devoted to the emerging trends in data-driven advertising and enables the exchange of ideas between all members of the ad ecosystem. Prior to AdExchanger, he worked for 15 years in digital marketing and operational roles for companies such as Viacom’s Nickelodeon, Arkadium and ContextWeb, as well as an entrepreneur.
Having just closed a new $7 million round of round of funding for his social ad platform company, Optim.al CEO Rob Leathern is expecting his 30-person operation to more than double in size in the coming year. But, don’t tell Leathern that Optim.al is a Facebook ads company. He says emphatically, “We think of ourselves […]
Dan Salmon is an equity research analyst at BMO Capital Markets and covers advertising and marketing services. Salmon upgraded Facebook from “Underperform” with a $15 target to “Outperform” and $32 target and explored his outlook in a research note to investors on Monday. You can download it here (PDF). AdExchanger: Where are the ad dollars […]
Today, remnant, or unsold, media has been pointedly addressed by real-time biddable exchanges and their partners in comparison to the direct-sold market. But, Shiny Ads founder and CEO Roy Pereira says that in the last six months his company has seen a “warming up” from publishers in regards to creating efficiencies in the direct sales […]
Having acquired social marketing software-as-a-service company Vitrue in May, Oracle continued its acquisition of marketing tech companies today with B2B SaaS marketing provider Eloqua for roughly $810 million. Read more. From the release about the acquisition: “The combination of Oracle and Eloqua is expected to create a comprehensive Customer Experience Cloud offering to help companies […]
Having “incubated” rich media mobile ads firm Celtra in 2006 while he finished his graduate studies at Babson College, CEO Mihael Mikek has seen the pre-smartphone days when SMS ads were all the rage. Eventually the mobile market began to take off and after grabbing $7 million in funding since 2010, the Boston-based company has […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls. The Rosetta Stone. The Caves of Lascaux. Pantology. As archaeological finds go, AdExchanger’s recent investigation into the history of media buying has yielded a stunning discovery courtesy of a source from the ad ecosystem black market. First thought to be yet-another-version of Candyland, AdExchanger scientists believe this gaming device came from […]
Thus far, our “Define It” series has covered definitions for some of the essential drivers of programmatic media including real-time bidding and “Big Data.” But, running in, around and through all of these concepts is something called an algorithm. What’s that? AdExchanger reached out to a group of programmatic media “top guns” and asked for […]
Jon Baron is CEO of tag management technology firm, TagMan. He recently spoke to AdExchanger about his business and industry trends. AdExchanger: Tag management versus data management platforms (DMPs) – what do you see as the difference today? Is Tagman in the DMP space? JON BARON: Whenever I talk to industry experts, they seem to […]
When Accordant Media was founded in 2010, co-founders Art Muldoon and Matt Greitzer admit that they thought programmatic media was complex. Two years later, the two executives say there’s even more complexity – but, there’s more opportunity, too. Positioning as an independent trading desk offering service and technology layers for marketers and their agencies, Greitzer […]
Andy Nibley is CEO of Yieldex, a sell-side, yield management and analytics firm that has focused on providing publishers insight on their guaranteed inventory. Nibley provided an update to AdExchanger recently about his business. AdExchanger: Why has Yieldex been keeping a low profile in the past year? ANDY NIBLEY: We’ve had our heads down building […]
I am excited to announce that AdExchanger will produce two conferences in 2013 called Programmatic I/O. The events will be held on April 8 in San Francisco and on September 16 in New York City. Programmatic I/O is designed to educate Marketers about the New Normal for Digital Marketing Input/Output. For a hint of the […]
In a panel discussion at Tuesday’s AllFacebook Conference, platform providers offered their insights on Facebook’s Open Graph and what marketers should think about when it comes to their social media plans. Facebook describes “Open Graph” on its developer site as helping “people tell stories about their lives with the apps they use. It provides developers […]
When David Williams bought Merkle in 1988, the first online display banner was still a few years away. But that doesn’t mean marketing tech wasn’t a part of his CRM agency from the get-go as Merkle ‘grew up’ building platforms for direct mail, and then the phone, and then email as the Internet made its […]
Michael Ho thinks offline sales goals can be driven online. That’s why his company, Bering Media, which he founded in 2008, is working with Internet service providers to create what Ho believes is an accurate, scalable way to target consumers online, based on geography, CRM data, and custom offline data models. “We didn’t want to […]
Internet marketing agency VirKet based in Mexico City, Mexico announced last month that it had signed on with Kenshoo and its search engine marketing (SEM) platform products – Kenshoo Enterprise (for large, corporate clients) and Kenshoo Local (for managing many smaller advertisers). See the release. Daniel Molano, Chief Strategy & Product Officer at VirKet, discussed the deal and […]
Bubbling around and through the advertising ecosystem is what some have called “Big Data.” Is it demo data? Location data? Or data from that little mouseover you just did with the graphic appended to this post? – It seems like it’s any piece of data we can think of, no? Time for some ecosystem input! […]
“How do we deliver analytics in a way that is inexpensive – and not a headache?” That is the high-level proposition behind BitYota according to Dev Patel who co-founded the company with fellow, former Yahoos Harmeek Bedi, Soren Riise and Poulomi Damany. And last week, he and his company took the wraps off of their solution […]
Ad networks are alive and well when it comes to certain discrete, vertical markets. Jim Barkow can attest. He was CEO of shopper media/e-commerce ad network Longboard Media, up until early November when he — along with his company — were acquired by Bazaarvoice. (See the release.) Barkow, who will stay on as Bazaarvoice’s GM […]
With the ecosystem providing insights on “programmatic buying” and “programmatic selling” last week, we reached out to a new group of executives to define one of the key underpinnings of programmatic media – whether display, mobile, social, etc. – and asked: “What is Real-Time Bidding?” Click below or scroll down for more: Scott Spencer, Director […]
Those signs in the mall aren’t ready to talk to you – yet. Today, when it comes to advertising, real-time insights into responses evoked at the neuro — or brain — level have only made their way into movies such as “Minority Report” (see clip) as Hollywood plays with the eerie potential of addressability. Nevertheless, […]
From Grapeshot CEO John Snyder’s vantage point, a culture of innovation and a willingness to partner in the UK has created new opportunity for his company. Having originally entered the ad tech space targeting the sell-side in 2008, Grapeshot has since pivoted and brought keyword targeting to European — and soon U.S. — ad buying […]
Media intelligence platform Aggregate Knowledge (AK) recently recently partnered with IBM to plug the AK platform into the IBM Digital Data Exchange. See the release. CEO Dave Jakubowski sees an overarching theme of “interoperability” in the deal as he says IBM marketer clients will be able to unlock what is going on with their website […]
Yesterday, we asked industry leaders to describe programmatic buying – and today we explore programmatic selling. Publishers are reviewing and implementing solutions that address opportunities around audience buying in digital. In an effort to help bring understanding to the sell-side version of ‘programmatic,’ AdExchanger asked several executives their thoughts on the following: “What is programmatic selling?” […]
As the data-driven, digital ecosystem expands, so are the number of people looking to understand its intricacies. In an effort to bring transparency to the many industry terms and buzzphrases spinning ’round, AdExchanger asked several executives their thoughts on the following: “What is programmatic buying?” Click below to read their responses: Andy Cocker, COO/ Co […]
Facebook said on Friday it’s bringing back the conversion pixel to its online advertisers by the end of the month, after abandoning it in 2010. Editor’s note: Up until now, there appeared to be exceptions made for some large advertisers who were using third-party ad tracking on Facebook – likely due to the size of […]
The Media Trust is a company that verifies the placement of ads relative to what the buyer originally intended. Sounds like the ad verification space popularized by companies like DoubleVerify, AdSafe and ComScore’s AdXpose, right? Well, it’s not. Though the pitch seems similar, according to CEO Chris Olson, the concept isn’t about brand safety metrics […]
With a background in the performance marketing space with companies that included ClickHype and Linkbucks.com, YellowHammer Media Group’s Hagan Major is well aware of the intricacies of the performance ad network model. And now that the model has been transformed with audience buying across exchanges – though direct-to-publisher deals still exist – Major and his […]
Visualized launched its inaugural data visualization event in New York City this week at The Times Center. Though not exclusively a business conference, the business implications of Visualized were clear – the visualization of big, bad data is critical as marketers, agencies, publishers, data and ad tech companies sift for actionable insights. For the Visualized […]
Content marketing tech company Outbrain has decided to make a change in its algos and how it delivers content links to publishers. In a move similar to what you might see with Google’s search product and its intriguingly-named “Panda” update, which sought to improve search results, Outbrain says it isn’t going to let just any […]
Sloan Broderick set the tone for today’s “New Media Strategy: How to Use DMPs, DSPs, RTB & Beyond” session at ad:tech in New York City as a healthy crowd of about 150 attended. The theme: data filtered through the data management platform feeds inventory management. The “101” for the ad:tech crowd was decidedly NOT so […]
