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AdExchanger: The Facebook Ad Network
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Tivo Rolls Out TV Commercial Audience Stats; News Corp Says MySpace Being Sold; NYT Display Rises, About Falters
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Addressing TV Audience According to The Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Vascellaro, Tivo is dipping its toes more firmly into the addressable media world by “expanding its service that allows advertisers to see how many and what kind of users are viewing their commercials.” What’s […]
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LUMA Partners' Kawaja On Demdex Sale To Adobe
Two weeks ago, Adobe Systems acquired data management provider Demdex in a deal facilitated in part by boutique investment bank, LUMA Partners. Read about the deal. LUMA Partners’ Terence Kawaja (maker of his well-known ad tech ecosystem map/”eye chart”) discussed the acquisition and its ramifications. AdExchanger.com: Given LUMA Partners advisory services in the Demdex sale […]
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Chango CEO Sukornyk On New Funding And Search Retargeting Momentum
Search retargeting platform Chango announced a $4.25 million funding round led by investors Rho Canada as the company looks to grow its offering for self-serve advertisers as well as expand its full-service capabilities to larger clients. Read the release. Chango CEO Chris Sukornyk discussed his company’s plans for its new funding and search retargeting strategies. […]
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Aol Revenues In-Line But Still Declining; IPO Bubble 3.0?; Cookie Deletion Down Under From ComScore
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Display Down Arrow Low expectations will only get you so far. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has done an excellent job of managing investors’ anticipations for its advertising business, but sooner or later, Armstrong will have to deliver the goods. The company reported its […]
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It's Time to Search for Ads Says Moat Co-CEOs Jonah Goodhart and Noah Goodhart
Jonah Goodhart and Noah Goodhart are the Co-CEO’s of Moat, a creative company. AdExchanger.com: Please share a brief background on the executive team at Moat. JONAH GOODHART: The company was founded by myself and Noah Goodhart. We brought on Ant Taylor as part of the founding team to serve as our GM. Mike Walrath serves […]
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Ad Tech Executives Discuss Privacy Challenges At AlwaysOn NYC Event
At yesterday’s AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC 2011 event at The Paley Center in New York City, ad technology companies gathered to talk ads, tech and business. One morning session, in particular, pricked up the ears of the data-driven digerati as reporter Emily Steel of The Wall Street Journal appeared to ably moderate a panel discussion comprised […]
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DataXu Adds Mobile DSP As CEO Baker Discusses Demand-Side Platform Strategy
Today, demand-side platform (DSP) DataXu formally announced its mobile DSP capabilities. According to an article by MediaPost’s Mark Walsh, “The new platform also promises features such as advanced targeting, optimization that automatically allocates ad spending most efficiently, improved attribution metrics and analytics reporting across both the mobile Web and mobile applications.” Read more. DataXu CEO […]
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Microsoft's Ad Outsource; Media Planners Wanted!; Gannett Digital Revenues Continued Surge
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft’s Ad Outsource Next month, Microsoft will begin handing management of its “non-premium” display across its ad exchange business to AppNexus, reports MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka. That will essentially mean the end of AdECN, the exchange it bought in 2007 but only began testing last […]
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TRUSTe CEO Babel Discusses The Business Of The Trusted Intermediary As Privacy Concerns Swirl
Chris Babel is CEO of TRUSTe, a privacy services company. AdExchanger.com: TRUSTe started as a non-profit and moved to profit status in 2008. Why the change? Do you still consider the company a start-up? CB: We realized that without transitioning to a for-profit company with a venture capital infusion we weren’t going to be able […]
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CEO Mortensen Says Visual Revenue Is Optimizing Front Page Performance For Publishers
Dennis Mortensen is CEO of Visual Revenue, a predictive analytics technology company. AdExchanger.com: When you are at Yahoo! could you see the “big data” opportunity coming? Has it happened as fast as you thought? DM: Yahoo was into big data long before we arrived as part of the May 2008 acquisition of IndexTools. Publishers in […]
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eBay Selects Triad For Display Advertising; NY Times On Google, Microsoft Browser Opt-Outs; Knowledge Networks' Social Signal
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Auction Online auction site eBay tried to enter the media buying business a few years ago with its media marketplace for cable advertising (networks and agencies balked). But now, eBay is aiming squarely at the display market. The company has struck a deal […]
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Click Forensics CEO Pellman On The Malware And Malvertising Fronts
The online advertising world continues to be challenged by ne’er-do-wells as Click Forensics released results from its latest quarterly, deep-dive into the company’s fraud detection data. The Company identified challenges with display advertising where “a pop-up or pop-under (…) rotates brand advertisers’ banner ads every 10-15 min in an effort to seemingly boost impression figures.” […]
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Re-Opening The Retargeting Campaign Kimono: Above-The-Fold Versus Below
Um. I missed a little detail in my retargeting/remarketing story published earlier this month. I forgot about my retargeting campaign’s “exclusions.” My apologies to Google, Larry and everyone else who wondered why I wasn’t getting that much reach with AdExchanger.com’s ongoing retargeting campaign through AdWords. Please allow me to explain. As many of you know, […]
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Google Serving Display Ads In Its Email; The Struggles Of Bringing TV Online; Reviewing The Browser Opt-Out Options
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. You’ve Got Display Mail Although the Google main search page remains as clean and ad unit free as ever, users of the search giant’s Gmail may be noticing something extra in their inboxes. SearchEngineLand’s Greg Sterling believes he may have stumbled on a test […]
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AdExchanger: The Browser Decides
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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An Ad Network - And Site Rep Firm - Grows In Boulder; Lijit Talks Momentum
AdExchanger.com spoke recently with CEO Todd Vernon and COO Walter Knapp of Lijit, a Boulder, Colorado-based company focused providing a search engine and other tools to long-and mid-tail publishers. In addition, publishers may choose to join Lijit’s ad network. Earlier this month, Lijit issued a release on company momentum. Read it here. AdExchanger.com: What momentum […]
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BlueKai CEO Tawakol Says TrackSimple Acquisition Completes DMP Stack
Yesterday, BlueKai announced that it had purchased TrackSimple, “a Seattle-based data analytics company that provides reporting, analysis and prediction services to media companies. “a Seattle-based data analytics company that provides reporting, analysis and prediction services to media companies.” Read the release. BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol discussed the acquisition and its implications. AdExchanger.com: Why acquire TrackSimple? […]
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Annalect Marketplaces CEO Spiegel Reviews Omnicom Media Group's Agency Trading Desk Strategy
Matt Spiegel is CEO of Annalect Marketplaces, a unit of Omnicom Media Group, the media services division of Omnicom Group. He discussed the evolution of Omnicom Media Group’s trading desk strategy with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: What are Accuen and Annalect? MS: Accuen is the name for our trading desk. As the industry knows, we operated as […]
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CEO Middleton On Performics Expansion, Search And Display Strategy
Publicis’ Performics announced that Daina Middleton, CEO of Performics is the performance marketing agency’s U.S. CEO and discussed the agency’s strategy as well as expansion of its company’s products and services into 72 countries. Read the release. AdExchanger.com: What are your thoughts about using search retargeting with display? And, given growing momentum for integrated search […]
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Yahoo! Releases Q4 2010 Financials, Display Up; MediaBank Divides, Says It Will Conquer; TRAFFIQ Gets Creative With Tumri
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Earnings, Display Looking Up Yahoo! released its Q4 2010 financials and “Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,205 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 4 percent decrease from the fourth quarter of 2009.” Read the release (PDF). Yahoo! earned […]
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Yieldbot CEO Mendez Talks About Funding And Future For Publisher-Side Platform
Jonathan Mendez, founder of Yieldbot, a publisher-side analytics and targeting platform, discussed his company’s new funding and next steps. AdExchanger.com: Who invested, how much – and what were you looking for with investors beyond the money? JM: We did a $1.2M Seed round from an amazing team of investors. RRE & Betaworks lead the round. […]
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You've Got Mail -With Display Ads
Display advertising around email is no longer the bottom feeder of inventory I once envisioned. “Sure, it’s cheap, but it’s email inventory” used to be a common refrain. Times change. In fact, over the course of the past few months, numerous industry people have suggested to me that the display ad inventory wrapped around email […]
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Browsers Blocking Tracking; BlueKai Buying; Auditude Gets New CEO, Funds
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Browsers Blocking Tracking Mozilla, makers of Firefox, and Google, which makes Chrome, announced that their respective browsers will be outfitted with technology that makes the blocking of cookies a snap. Read more from Mozilla. And, read the Google Public Policy blog about Chrome opt-out […]
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Hi Larry
Hi Larry, Congrats on your new role over at Google. Thought I’d say hello and introduce myself. -Hey, by the way, I liked the shot of the three of you in the driverless car. Looks like you’re having fun over there already. Who can blame you considering the relatively balmy temps you all appear to […]
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Securing The Publisher, Serving The Marketer
Oh leakage, leakage, leakage. Last week’s Adobe acquisition of Demdex made clear that many of those working hard on a broad software-as-a-service solution for the advertising industry, see the securing of inventory supply as the key lever. If you don’t have any supply, you won’t have any ad spend floating through your ad pipes and […]
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Committee Hearings Cometh; Collective And Evidon On Compliance; Joost Spinning Off
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Coming Committee Hearings You knew there would be more of this after the new year: Mediaweek’s Katy Bachman reports that the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is likely to hold hearings on online privacy issues, perhaps as soon as next month. The big […]
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One Question: How Does The Complex, Digital Ad Ecosystem Today Get Simplified?
Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a new column devoted to an answer to a single question – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is John Donahue, CTO of BuzzLogic, a conversational media solution company, who recently answered the following question during […]
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Google Reports, Page Becomes CEO; Good Behavior Competition; The EU: Self-Regs Rule
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Reports, Page Becomes CEO Google reported its Q4 2010 earnings and it was another whopper that exceeded Wall Street analyst expectations as “Google reported revenues of $8.44 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, representing a 26% increase over fourth quarter 2009 revenues […]
