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Online Publishers Can Get Private Data Exchange Thru eXelate Says CRO Zagorski
Data exchange eXelate announced that it’s putting the power in the hands of publishers by allowing them to create “stand-alone, exclusive, transparent data exchanges” for advertisers and agencies. Through eXelate, publishers control who gets access to its data according to the release. Read it. eXelate CRO Mark Zagorski discussed the announcement. AdExchanger.com: Please define what […]
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Magnetic Raises Another $4 Million; CEO Shatkin-Margolis Discusses Search Re-Targeting Usage
Magnetic CEO Josh Shatkin-Margolis discussed the company’s $4 million in Series A funding led by Charles River Ventures, Ron Conway and NYC Investment Fund bringing total investment to-date to $5.25 million. According to the release, existing investors Founder Collective and IA Capital Partners also participated. Link to release coming. How will Magnetic use the $4 […]
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Bizo CEO Glass On New Data Partnership With BlueKai Exchange
B2B data provider Bizo announced that it was partnering with BlueKai and making Bizo’s B2B data available through BlueKai’s exchange. Read the release. Bizo CEO Russell Glass discussed the deal and its implications. AdExchanger.com: What does this partnership say about the data business model as a whole? RG: Industry leaders are specializing on their core […]
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Rubicon Project To Streamline, Achieve Profit By Q4 Says Addante; Today's M&A - IBM Buys Coremetrics; And New NY Times Frankenstein Site
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rubicon Project On Profit, People According to CEO Frank Addante from his Founders blog, sell-side optimizer Rubicon Project is going to start focusing on profitability. He writes, “We are on track to do $100M+ in revenue this year, and with discipline, will reach profitability […]
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Eyeblaster Becomes MediaMind; CEO Trifon On New Company Name, Direction
CEO Gal Trifon discussed his company’s new name and direction as Eyeblaster changes to MediaMind and focuses on data-driven, media buying solutions. AdExchanger.com: Where does MediaMind fit within the company’s product set? Do you expect it to be the focus for revenue generation for the company? Or is this just a re-brand and all of […]
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Tech Star - The Music Video
For last week’s Digital Media Summit, GCA Savvian’s Terence Kawaja (maker of “A Few Good DSPs“) mashed up a music video version of Nickelback’s “Rockstar” with a range of technology and media “stars” in a sunnier update to his video from last year called Mad Avenue Blues. Do you recognize all the faces of “Tech […]
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Facebook Crushing Time Spent - Again; News Corp Circling Content Wagons; On Verifying Audience
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Top Sites And Brands Nielsen released its May 2010 figures for most popular websites and brands. For sites according to U.S. unique visitors, Google was #1 with 160 million uniques and Facebook was #4 with 125 million uniques. But Facebook crushes all the big […]
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VivaKi CEO Hecht Talks AdECN Integration, Google/Invite Media, New "Primary" BlueKai Data Partnership And French Cuisine
Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center CEO Curt Hecht recently discussed some of the latest updates with the Nerve Center. AdECN Integration Via AdECN Invite Media And Google Interoperability VivaKi Nerve Center Targeting Europe Using Ad Networks BlueKai Partnership Brand Safety And Possible Verification Partner On Moving To Paris, Kenny Departure Audience Buying For Video, The Pool […]
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BMO Capital Markets Yields More Thoughts On Google Demand-Side Platform Plans
Last Thursday amidst the Internet Week hoopla in New York City, ad technology and media company luminaries gathered at BMO Capital Markets 2nd Annual Advertising & Marketing Services Conference. In the private company track, this writer had the pleasure of guiding discussion among participants John Mellor, VP, Strategy & Biz Dev at Adobe/Omniture, Epic Advertising […]
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Rosenblatt Takes Chair, Ex-DoubleClick Ad Exchange Exec Is CTO; Attributor Gets More Money; Analyzing The Competition In Google AdWords
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rosenblatt Takes Chair With Ex-DoubleClick Ad Exchange-er Former DoubleClick exec David Rosenblatt is throwing his hat into the group shopping (think GroupOn? We’ll see.) as Reuters says he’s the chairman of a company called Group Commerce, which describes itself on its website thusly, “Our […]
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Why Online Advertising Should Be Regulated
“The Debate” is a column focused on the current debate around ad targeting and consumer privacy. Today’s article is written by Auren Hoffman, CEO, Rapleaf. The online advertising industry is going through rapid and exciting changes. In the past two years, we’ve moved from a publisher-centric model to a network-centric model and now to a […]
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Consolidation: ADISN Sold For $5.5 Million; FreeWheel Expands Online Video Ad Serving; On Automating Media Planners
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Consolidation: ADISN Sold Battery Ventures-funded ADISN has been sold to community forums owner, CrowdGather, for $5.5 million in stock according to PaidContent’s Joseph Tartikoff. See last year’s AdExchanger.com Q&A with ADISN here when the company was positioned as a creative optimization technology company. Read […]
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AdExchanger: Angst in Publisher Town - Intro
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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WPP’s Media Innovation Group GM Brian Lesser On DSPs, Holding Cos And Launching ZAP 3.0
Brian Lesser is SVP and General Manager at the Media Innovation Group, WPP’s proprietary ad technology firm. What is the Media Innovation Group (MIG)‘s role within WPP? MIG is WPP’s technology-driven digital marketing company designed to help marketers navigate the increasingly complex digital landscape. At MIG, our goal is to build technology and leverage data […]
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Former Agency Chief Jon Bond Readies New Agency Model; Quantcast Gets Accredited; More Thoughts On Invite Media
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Co-op Agency Model Ad Age’s Rupal Parekh covers a new agency model being put together by former kbs+p partner, Jon Bond with $100 million of financing. Parekh writes, “The entity is being dubbed a ‘cooperative’ to prospective partners and touted as an alternative […]
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AdMeld And Peer39 Announce Semantic Data Partnership
Peer39 and AdMeld announced an agreement which will allow AdMeld to “analyze every optimized impression against Peer39’s proprietary semantic data sets” to the benefit of AdMeld publishers and demand partners (ad networks, exchanges and DSPs) according to a release. Read it. Peer39 President and Founder Amiad Solomon discussed the implications of the deal. AdExchanger.com: It […]
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Petsky Prunier's Chadda On FetchBack Sale To GSI Commerce
Sanjay Chadda is Partner & Managing Director at Petsky Prunier, which advised FetchBack on its sale to GSI Commerce Inc. Read the release. AdExchanger.com: Some think that Fetchback sold before the market collapsed for their services due to factors such as Google opening up self-serve retargeting. How do you respond? SC: Fetchback was approached by […]
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CEO Schigel Says ShareThis Leveraging Data For Publishers, Advertisers And Consumers
Tim Schigel is CEO of ShareThis, makers of web content sharing solutions. AdExchanger.com: What problem is ShareThis solving? Reaching over 400 million consumers and helping them share their favorite content on 800,000 sites, ShareThis helps publishers and marketers to understand and tap into the real value of sharing. Critical to this value is the idea […]
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Morgan Stanley's Meeker Still Bullish On Mobile; AOL Is A "Start-Around"; Demand Media Launch Long Tail Content Network
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Is Still Going To Be Big Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker still thinks mobile is about to hit its stride and told the audience as much during her presentation at the Conversational Media summit in NYC on Monday. Matthew Ingram of GigaOm paraphrases […]
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Accordant Media Offering Next Generation Buying And Optimization Services Say Founders Greitzer And Muldoon
Art Muldoon and Matt Greitzer are Co-Founders of Accordant Media, a media buying and optimization company for agencies and in-house marketers. AdExchanger.com: Please share a bit of background. Where did you come up with the idea for Accordant Media? Matt: The idea behind Accordant is that we integrate strategy, technology and execution to provide a […]
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Apple iAd Ad Network To Debut July 1; Publicis Levy On Why He's Staying; IAB Says "No" To Lawmakers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. iAd To Dominate Says Jobs Amidst the announcement of the new iPhone at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference was more information on the iAd, which is supported by Apple’s recent purchase of Quattro Wireless. According to Paul Boutin of VentureBeat, Apple CEO Steve Jobs claims […]
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GCA Savvian's Kawaja On Google's Acquisition Of Invite Media And Demand-Side Platform M&A
Terence Kawaja is Managing Director of GCA Savvian, an investment bank, which “acted as exclusive financial advisor to Invite Media, Inc. and assisted in the negotiations” between Google and Invite Media. Google acquired Invite Media last week. AdExchanger.com: Why do you think Google bought Invite Media? TK: I will let Google answer that but Invite […]
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Cadreon CEO Moorcroft On Google's Acquisition Of Invite Media
Mediabrands’ Cadreon CEO Brendan Moorcroft offered his reaction to the recent acquisition of Invite Media by Google which was announced last week: “Google’s purchase of Invite Media marks an exciting time for the digital technology and media marketplace. One of the leading technology powerhouses in the industry has now solidified their commitment to an open […]
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Fast Pay Partners Looking To Shorten Receivables Cycles Says Partners Simon And Yee
Jed Simon is Founder & Partner and Patrick Yee is Partner of Fast Pay Partners. AdExchanger.com: Please share background on yourselves. And, where did the idea come from for Fast Pay Partners? Jed: The idea for Fast Pay Partners was based on seeing the need firsthand. Patrick: Before Fast Pay, I co-founded of Shopflick, a […]
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Ziff-Davis Bought By Vivek Shah, Great Hill Partners; Demand Media's Bradford Aiming For AOL And Yahoo!; VivaKi Nerve Center's Hecht Goes To Paris
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shah Acquires Ziff-Davis, Looking For Data Gold With the help of Great Hill Partners, former Time Inc. executive, Vivek Shah has acquired technology-focused publisher Ziff Davis where he will now becomes its CEO. Shah promises that this is “the start of a new digital […]
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Given Data And Media's De-Coupling, Should A Data Company Be Selling Media, Too? - Day 4 Reactions
This is the fourth and final day of the data-media series. If you’d like to begin at the start of the 4-day, reaction series, click here. Click “read more” to read the participant’s answer to the AdExchanger.com reaction question on the decoupling of data and media: Andy Atherton, COO, Brand.net: “…it’s fine for data companies […]
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Reaction: On Google's Acquisition Of Invite Media
AdExchanger.com surveyed executives from the digital ad world regarding their opinion on the recent acquisition of Invite Media by Google which was announced yesterday. What are your thoughts about Google’s acquisition of Invite Media? Any concerns? Matt Spiegel, CEO, Omnicom Media Group Will Margiloff, co-CEO, Innovation Interactive Bill Demas, CEO, Turn Tim Ogilvie, CEO, AdBuyer.com […]
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Akamai Visualizing; AdSafe Seeing Ad Exchange Traction; CPCs Healthy In May Says Efficient Frontier
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Akamai Has Vision MediaPost’s Laurie Sullivan interviews Akamai’s Mike Afergan about Akamai’s new Online Shopping Data Visualization. Afergan tells Sullivan, “Advertisers are often times asked to guess how to reach their audiences. We have seen that the concept of Shopographics, the process of identifying […]
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ContextWeb's Subramanian On PubVantage And PerformancePrice
ContextWeb announced PubVantage.com which it positions as “a new destination integrated into ADSDAQ, that enables publishers to research, rate and review any ad network and connect to them via ADSDAQ.” Read the release. Anand Subramanian, ContextWeb’s Founder and President of the ADSDAQ Ad Exchange, discussed PubVantage as well as a new solution called PerformancePrice which […]
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Kantar Video CEO Lederer Discusses Videolytics Platform
Bill Lederer, CEO, of WPP Group’s newly-created Kantar Video discussed the company’s new Videolytics platform “an online and mobile video advertising and program platform offering content identity, syndication, tracking, measurement, analytics, and optimization for marketers and their agencies, media companies, and content creators and distributors.” What target market is VideolyticsTM for and why?