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Grocery Shopping Network CEO Robinson Says Platform Increasing Performance By 30%
Andy Robinson is CEO of Grocery Shopping Network, an online ad network. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Grocery Shopping Network solving? GSN enables grocers to significantly expand digital shopper engagement, value and total in-store and online sales. Likewise GSN provides a means for advertisers to reach and target their best customers on a per store basis […]
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Unilever Doubling Down On Digital; Right Media Open Starts July 19; WPP Group Seeing Ad Upswing
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brand Dollars Coming Brand dollars are coming online in a big way if Unilever CMO Keith Weed is to be believed. ClickZ’s Zach Rodgers covered the conference and says Weed suggested digital budgets will double in the coming year. Rodgers writes, “In some countries, […]
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Tyler Fitch of Mindjolt Talks About Publisher Opportunities And Challenges
Tyler Fitch is Director of Yield Management at Mindjolt, an online games company. Fitch discussed recent trends he’s seeing on the publisher side. AdExchanger.com: What’s the pitch on games advertising for advertisers? Seems tough – considering people just want to play their games and not look at ads. Actually it’s quite the opposite. Our users […]
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IPG Says Its Still Early In The Recovery; Fox Audience Network Repositioning; Rubicon's Batson Joins Donovan Data Systems
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IPG CEO Says Not So Fast Wait, maybe the economy isn’t bouncing back as quickly as everyone had hoped in the ad world? Michael Roth of ad holding company Interpublic Group tells Dow Jones Newswire, “We are encouraged by what we saw in the […]
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AdExchanger: Angst in Publisher Town - Part III
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Triggit CEO Coelius On New Funds, Emerging Real-Time Bidding Channels, More
Triggit announced today that is has raised $4.2 million in Series A financing led by Foundry Group and Spark Capital. Read the release. Triggit CEO Zach Coelius discussed the new funding and his company’s plans. AdExchanger.com: Please share the details on your latest round of funding. ZC: Santo Politi from Spark Capital and Seth Levine […]
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CEO Cimino Says Brilig Is An Audience Commerce Platform With An Open Transaction Marketplace
Paul Cimino is CEO of Brilig, which formally announced its audience commerce platform today. Read the release. How has Brilig’s model pivoted since last we spoke a year ago? PC: The basic concept of our audience commerce platform and open marketplace hasn’t changed but the ecosystem around us has. A year ago the agencies we […]
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Omnicom On Digital Acquisitions; Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Square Off In Cannes; Aol On Retail Segment
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Omnicom On Digital Acquisitions Omnicom’s Jonathan Nelson says in an interview with Dow Jones Newswire that even though the company is focused on growing “organically” (pun? Nelson co-founded agency Organic), the ad holding company is seeing opportunity for digital acquisitions in certain regions saying, […]
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Attitudinal Targeter Resonate Networks Raises $5 Million; CEO Gernert Discusses Data-Driven Landscape
Attitudinal targeting ad network Resonate Networks has announced a $5 million series A round of financing led by Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital. Read the release. Resonate Networks CEO Bryan Gernert discussed his company’s new funding and the data-driven advertising landscape. How is the funding environment today in ad tech? Is data resonating? While venture […]
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Brand.net CEO Blair Discusses Latest Capital Raise, Positioning And Media Futures Platform
Brand.net announced yesterday a $14 million Series C round of funding led by Focus Ventures, with participation by existing investors InterWest Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. Read the release. Brand.net CEO Elizabeth Blair discussed her company’s new funds and plans for the future. AdExchanger.com: What will the new funds be used for? EB: Expanding agency […]
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Acquisio Co-Founder Poirier On The Trade Desk Partnership, SEMs And Display Media
Marc Poirier, co-founder and CMO, Acquisio, discussed his company’s new partnership with buy-side platform The Trade Desk which will integrate the company’s PPC platform into The Trade Desk’s platform (Read more in the release.). AdExchanger.com: This is the first time I’ve heard of a search PPC platform from one company being integrated into a DSP […]
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Apple And Precise Geotargeting; Chinese Display Ad Market; Tremor Media Gets Googler
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Now Targeting Geo Apple is readying “precise” geotargeting on its iAd platform if a recent update to its privacy platform is any indication. The L.A. Times Tech blog reports that “the company added a paragraph noting that once users agree, Apple and unspecified ‘partners […]
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Lijit CEO Todd Vernon On Series D Funding And Data Strategy Roadmap
Lijit announced that it has raised $6 million in Series D financing from existing investors Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures and High Country Venture. This put their total to-date for funds raised at $18.3 million. Read the release. Lijit CEO Todd Vernon discussed the new funds and the product road map as it relates to data. […]
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YuMe CRO McLernon Says Company's Brand Security Initiative Helps Set It Apart From Video Ad Platform Competitors
Scot McLernon is Chief Revenue Officer of YuMe, a video ad platform and network. Looking at your experience with CBS Marketwatch and CBS Interactive, what key learnings are you bringing to YuMe? It certainly feels as though I’ve seen this movie before. In 2000, when I was at CBS MarketWatch, we were breaking new ground […]
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Consolidation - AdKnowledge Buys CPA Net Hydra; AOL And IPG Tracking In-Store Effects Of Digital Ads; Kontera Expanding In The UK
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Consolidation: AdKnowledge At It Again AdKnowledge has acquired CPA network Hydra Group for an unknown amount Having previously purchased MIVA and Lookery’s media business among other acquisitions, the company is looking to become the biggest player in the affiliate world. In the release, Adknowledge […]
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Glam Media Migrates Its 3,000+ Sites To GlamAdapt Says SVP Jacobs
Josh Jacobs is SVP of Brand Advertising Products & Marketing at vertical content network Glam Media. What will happen to Glam Media‘s publisher inventory? Does it all get folded into GlamAdapt? JJ: Glam Media has migrated the more than 3000+ sites in our Vertical Media network to the GlamAdapt platform. Today, GlamAdapt is delivering on […]
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Power I Makes Sense For Ecosystem Says Better Advertising CEO Meyer
Better Advertising CEO Scott Meyer discussed the imminent launch of Power I via multiple online ad campaigns. Read more from Ad Age. With the launch of “Power I,” does this mean you’ve won the competition to provide a self-regulation tool for the ad industry as it relates to a consumer’s online privacy? If not, when […]
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Google Display Network Swallows GCN; Privacy Startups Are The Rage; How-To-ing Display Advertising
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Display Gets Makeover The Google Content Network went into the re-branding machine as Google looks to align its products and services associated with display advertising. Now known as “Google Display Network,” VP of Product Management Neal Mohan writes on the Inside AdWords blog, […]
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Adap.tv President Gabriner On TidalTV Partnership And RTB-Enabled Marketplace
Adap.tv announced last week that TidalTV, an online video ad platform, will be “the first to utilize adap.tv’s recently-announced real-time bidding (RTB) interface” and buy from Adap.tv’s “premium” inventory pool of online video ad placements. Read the release. Toby Gabriner, President of Adap.tv, discussed the new partnership and details on the Adap.tv marketplace. You note […]
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ValueClick Continuing To Focus On Regional Markets And Key Vertical Segments Says GM Todd
Bill Todd is General Manager of ValueClick Media, an online marketing services provider and division of ValueClick. AdExchanger.com: First, please provide a quick top line on ValueClick and the business ValueClick Media addresses. BT: ValueClick Media is a division of ValueClick, Inc., a global online marketing services provider whose other divisions include Commission Junction (affiliate […]
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Havas Signs KENSHOO SEM Platform; Lotame And OpenAmplify Dance; Calling All Display Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Havas Partners With SEM Platform Havas Digital announced that it had selected KENSHOO as “their primary technology provider and partner for search engine marketing.” Actually… the partnership seems broader than that as KENSHOO’s platform will “consolidate search, social and mobile campaign management and optimization,” […]
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AdExchanger: Angst in Publisher Town - Part II
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Agencies Using The Crowd And Trada In Order To Provide Marketing Services Says CEO Robertson
Trada, a PPC marketing campaign marketplace, announced this week that in the interest of servicing agencies who “were being asked by their clients to offer paid search…and it wasn’t an area that agencies necessarily cared about,” the company has updated it’s marketplace to make it easy for agencies to use. Read more on the Trada […]
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Akamai CTO Afergan On Akamai Ad Product Momentum, Pixel Free Technology And The Media Landscape
During last week’s Internet Retailer Conference In Chicago, AdExchanger.com spoke to Mike Afergan, CTO and SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) at Akamai about the company’s digital advertising products including its new “pixel free” solution as well as industry trends from Akamai’s point-of-view. Read the release on Pixel Free. The Ecommerce Pitch and Pixel Free […]
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AOL Chooses Legal Injection For Bebo; Orange Juice And Associated Content; The Brain Drain At Agencies
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL On Verge Of “Abandoning” Bebo Actually, the vernacular here is “abandoning” as AOL, which bought Bebo for $800 million, will likely sell it for something around $10 million. As Mike Arrington points out on TechCrunch, it’s likely worthe more, but this gives AOL […]
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Compass Labs Identifying Purchase Intent Through Social Conversations Says CEO Venkatachari
Dilip Venkatachari is CEO and co-founder of Compass Labs, a real-time targeting technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please share some background on you. And, where did the idea for Compass Labs come from? Prior to co-founding Compass Labs, I led Google’s mobile monetization business and had responsibility for all of PayPal’s risk and fraud management, card and […]
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Gil Beyda of Genacast On Invite Media Success, Stepping Up Investment In Start-ups This Year
Gil Beyda leads early-stage investment group Genacast Ventures, a part of Comcast Interactive Capital. Genacast Ventures invested in demand-side platform Invite Media prior to being acquired by Google as announced earlier this month. Beyda spoke to AdExchanger.com about the deal as well as momentum in the space. AdExchanger.com: Were you surprised that Invite Media sold […]
