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Omnicom Sees Growth In Q2; Sparks Fly Over Agency Trading Desks; Asia Ad Network Consolidation
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Agency Seeing Growth Agency holding company Omnicom reported its earnings and “net income for the second quarter of 2011 increased 13.1% to $275.1 million from $243.3 million in the second quarter of 2010.” Read the release. Reuters reports, “All advertising groups have been lifted […]
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Yahoo! Reports Earnings: Display Ads Miss Expectations, Premium Sales Team Still Ramping
Yahoo! reported its Q2 2011 earnings today and said that revenue after traffic acquisition costs (revenue ex-TAC) was $1.07 billion – a 5% decrease from 2010’s Q2. Also, “Income from operations increased 9 percent to $191 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared to $175 million in the second quarter of 2010.” Read the […]
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NetSeer Expanding Beyond Contextual Links To Media Buying Services Says CEO Mracek
John Mracek is CEO of NetSeer, a contextual ad technology company whose products include media buying services and a contextual links ad network. NetSeer has had $14.4 million in investment to date from Mission Ventures and Onset Ventures. How has the company’s overall strategic plan evolved since last we spoke in December of 2009? JM: […]
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Founding Partner Isaacs Discusses Essence And Digital Agency Trends
Matt Isaacs is founding partner of Essence, an independent, global digital agency based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: Please share a brief background on your agency. MI: We’re six years old and have served many of the leading Internet companies, originally, on a UK basis, and then on a pan‑European basis, and now for some […]
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JEGI On The Display Delivery Chain; Looking At The AdSense Rev Share; Picard On Product Lifecycle For The Marketer
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Friction In The System Looking at what it calls the “Massive Proliferation in Display Delivery Chain,” investment bank Jordan-Edmiston Group (JEGI) has produced a new flow chart for its clients showing which it says shows the friction being introduced in today’s display and in […]
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Pixels, Muffins And The Real Facebook Ad Network
One of the complaints about Facebook advertising has been the inability to sync any advertiser’s ad campaign efforts with other, non-Facebook, cookie-based efforts. In other words, if you’re a brand marketer looking to raise awareness for a particular product, you’ll need to use Facebook (FB) advertising’s own metrics – which could include anything from demographic […]
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AdExchanger: The Marketing Stack
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Former Omniture CEO Targeting Enterprise Data; More On Specific Media And Myspace; Glam Media On 2.0
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Former Omniture CEO Tackling Data Check it out. Former Omniture CEO Josh James – looking snazzy – announced the launch of his new company, Domo Technologies, on Wednesday. The company originates from his acquisition of a company called Corda in May – a purchase […]
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Surprise... Google Makes A Ton Of Cash In Q2 2011
Google released second quarter 2011 earnings today as the company made tons of cash: “GAAP operating income in the second quarter of 2011 was $2.88 billion, or 32% of revenues.” And a new record of $9 billion in revenue in the quarter. Read the release. And, get the earnings slides (PDF). Google AdSense saw 20% […]
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Mojiva CEO Gwozdz Takes DoubleClick Learnings Into Mobile Ad Network And Ad Server Markets
David Gwozdz is CEO of Mojiva Inc, a company whose products include the Mojiva mobile ad network and Mocean ad serving company. AdExchanger.com: In regards to your company’s recent funding, can you talk a little bit more about what that $25 million is going for – sales and marketing? DG: Originally, we had sales and […]
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Online Video Continues To Drive Digital Growth Says ZenithOptimedia's Barnard
The research team at ZenithOptimedia reported yesterday that “total internet ad spend to grow 12.6%, 15.8% and 16.1% in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The brightest spot in terms of online ad growth will be online video.” Read more on Radio & Television Business Report. Jonathan Barnard, Head of Forecasting at Publicis’ ZenithOptimedia, discussed the latest […]
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comScore Announces New Attribution Model; Adconion And The Ad Network
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lifting Attribution Targeted challenges with display advertising, comScore announced its continuing to enhance the company’s attribution products/methodologies with the introduction of the “Smart Lift Attribution Model.” comScore’s VP of Ad Effectiveness, Anne Hunter, claims on the comScore blog, the new product “overcomes the issue […]
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Boston Consulting Group's Busby Reviews The Data Stack
Ed Busby is Partner at Boston Consulting Group. He is finishing up a study on data strategy in the digital media space and presented some his findings at the BlueKai Summit in New York City. AdExchanger.com: How do you break the data ecosystem down -and in layman’s terms? EB: We think about the various services […]
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Yahoo! Announces Ad-Supported Content Network; Looking At NAI Cookie Compliance; MoCapital For MoPub
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo!’s Like Button It’s an ad network. It’s content. It’s both! Looking to leverage its content trove, The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! will roll-out a new content network plan that may be Yahoo!’s version of the Facebook “Like” button. Amir Efrati writes, […]
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Oppenheimer's Simon Sees More Mergers And Acquisitions Ahead
Todd Simon is Managing Director, Head of Digital Media at Oppenheimer & Co., an investment banking company. Simon is also on the Strategy Board of sell-side platform Rubicon Project. AdExchanger.com: Given your background in investment banking, what is your take on today’s M&A climate in the ad technology space? TS: We expect a robust M&A […]
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Mojiva Gets $25 Million For Mobile; AT&T On Mobile Ad Network; Report: Criteo Retargeting Revs At $200 Million
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. More Money For Mobile’s Mojiva Mobile ad serving platform Mojiva announced it has received $25 million in funding (now up to $35 million total) led by Shamrock Capital Partners. Ad Age’s Kunur Patel segments the company thusly: “Mojiva encompasses two distinct business units: Mojiva, […]
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An Interview With Bob Walczak, Former Ringleader Digital CEO
On Friday, ClickZ’s Jack Marshall noted that Ringleader Digital, a mobile technology and ad network, may have “vanished” – in other words, ceased operations. Read more. Today, Bob Walczak, Ringleader Digital’s former CEO discussed his former company and his own plans in an interview with AdExchanger.com. Disclaimer From Mr. Walczak: “The below comments are not […]
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Data Industry Reaction: What Is The Biggest Challenge With The Demand-Side Platform Model?
With the demand-side platform (DSP) model continuing to propagate, data sellers and data management providers are seeing up-close how the DSP is applying data to the targeting of users in display, mobile and video ad inventory today. From their data-centric point-of-view, AdExchanger.com wanted to know… how is the DSP model doing? In particular, we asked […]
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Report: Google Data Exchange Imminent; Ringleader Digital Dissolved?; Private Exchange A-Go-Go
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Acronym: DDP According to Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth, Google is on the verge of rolling out its own data exchange. Learmonth writes, “Known internally by the acronym “DDP,” [the exchange] is an attempt to create a liquid market for the data used to […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingDigital Media: The Odd Man Out
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. The sciencification of advertising is on a clear, steady march toward greater and greater efficiencies, whether that be optimized cost for […]
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RapLeaf CEO Hoffman Discusses New LiveRamp Solution And Company Strategy
Auren Hoffman is CEO of Rapleaf, a data company. AdExchanger.com: It’s been an interesting past year for Rapleaf, to say the least, regarding the company’s strategy and online privacy. What have you learned? AH: We definitely had our time in the spotlight and the publicity has been a factor in our fast growth in 2011. […]
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AdExchanger: Pie Contest
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Cisco Needs Video Ad Server Plans; Cost-Per-View Is The Way; iAd Gets A Haircut
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cisco And Enterprise Video Plans Cisco Systems rolled out its enterprise content delivery network system for video. Mike Vizard of CTO Edge re-purposes some Cisco marketing speak: “As the amount of high-definition telepresence traffic on the network increases, Schroeder adds that optimizing video traffic […]
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GroupM On Digital Spend Potential; KN Expands Latino Market Capabilities; Quantcast Serving Privacy Icon
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital Spend Potential (DSP?) Citing upheaval in the Middle East and the tsunami in Japan as key factors, WPP Group’s GroupM announced that it’s adjusting its predictions for global ad spend from a 5.8% increase to a 4.8% increase for 2011. On the digital […]
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Collective To Acquire Dynamic Creative Tech Company Tumri
According to multiple sources, and the company itself has now confirmed, Collective will announce the acquisition of dynamic creative ad tech company Tumri shortly as the ad tech ecosystem M&A has continued to accelerate in recent weeks (AdMeld by Google on June 13, Performable by Hubspot and MediaMind by DG on June 16). After competitor […]
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Retailers Starting To Understand Value Of Their Customer Data Says TellApart CEO McFarland
Josh McFarland is CEO of TellApart, an online media buying and data management platform, discussed recent events at his company and his view on digital ads. The company recently raised a $13 million round of funding through Greylock and Bain Capital (read more). AdExchanger.com: Since we last spoke a year ago, are there any new […]
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The Big Five Of Ad Spend; ATD Adds OOH - Uh OOH?; Real-Time Bidding Stories
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Big Five Of Ad Spend Looking at the numbers, and beyond the usual suspects (Google, Facebook, etc.), eMarketer’s David Halloran remarks in a company blog post, “Many marketers can often cost-effectively use a blend of ad networks and direct ad buys from smaller […]
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Polk Execs Price And McBride See Offline Data Meauring Online Activity
Last week, ad network ad summos announced an agreement with automotive data company, Polk. According to the release, “With access to Polk’s vehicle make and model data, ad summos is able to determine the vehicle purchasing and ownership behaviors of individuals served online display ads.” Read the release. Polk’s Andrew Price, who is VP of […]
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Down Under, Publisher Fairfax Revolts Against DSPs; Burt Gets $3 Million For Creative Analytics; Latest Flash Cookie Lawsuit
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No ATDs Allowed! In Australia, agency trading desks using demand-side platform (DSP) models are being rejected by Fairfax Metro Media as CEO Jack Matthews tells AdNews, “We want to control access to our audience because we think we have a uniquely valuable audience across […]
