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CPM Advisors Leveraging Mediageeks' Technology For Demand-Side Platform
Demand-side platform CPM Advisors announced that it would be leveraging the technology infrastructure of publisher optimizer, Mediageeks. Read the release. AdExchanger.com discussed the announcement with CPM Advisors CEO Rob Leathern and MediaGeeks GM Jacob LeWinter. AdExchanger.com: It’s interesting that a demand-side tech company is partnering with a publisher-side technology company – and beyond just buying […]
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Wild Tangent Seeks To Entice Brand Marketers With BrandBoost Ad Platform Says EVP Madden
WildTangent, with an online games ad network of over 100+ million unique users according to the company, announced a “unique advertising platform, BrandBoost™, which provides brand marketers the opportunity to reward gamers with complimentary game play and virtual items in return for brand engagement.” Read the release (PDF). WildTangent’s EVP of Business Development and Marketing, […]
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Reply.com Launches $60 Million IPO Effort; NY Times' Zimbalist On Bringing Brands Online; YouTube Testing HTML 5
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reply.com Going IPO Lead gen marketplace, Reply.com, announced that it will go public as it has filed its registration statement. Complete release on the Reply.com blog. This announcement comes on the heals of a recent IPO by lead gen company, Quin Street, and just […]
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Google Announces DoubleClick For Publishers As Yield Optimization War Continues To Heat Up
Aiming to solve the needs of the supply-side, and cutting the existing yield optimizers out of the game, Google says that it has “re-written DFP” (Susan Wojcicki’s words at this week’s IAB event) and believes it is offering more reasons than ever to park large publisher inventory with… warning acronym change… was: DART For Publishers… […]
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Liquidity is "Easy," Valuation is Hard
“The Provocateur” column is intended to incite discussion on a variety of topics around the evolution of digital media. Darren Herman is Founder, Varick Media Management and Chief Digital Media Officer of kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners Liquidity is “Easy,” Valuation is Hard – Current “demand side” technology platforms do not ingest client side data […]
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Mobclix Ad Exchange Doubling Monthly; Rubicon Project Begins Product Search; More RTB From DataXu's Baker; Dixon On The Attribution Challenge
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobclix Clicking Mobile ad exchange, Mobclix, is doubling in size monthly according to a Portfolio.com piece with co-founder Krishna Subramanian (AdExchanger.com Q&A). From the interview, Mobclix “is on a $25 million to $30 million run rate and serving some 3.5 billion ad impressions per […]
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Germany's AdScale Expecting Revenues To Double In 2010 Says CEO Pantke
Matthias Pantke is CEO of AdScale GmbH, an online advertising marketplace based in Germany, AdExchanger.com: Give us a bit of background on you and how it’s prepared you as well as the evolution of AdScale’s business model – which has been around for a few years, correct? My career started at DSF in 1997 (the […]
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Google Names Display Chief; ValueClick Talks Earnings And Ad Networks; Addressable Media Showing Results
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Google Display Chief In an article, Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth introduces the new head of display at Google, Barry Salzman, who makes a return engagement of sorts after working at DoubleClick until 2002. According to Learmonth, Salzman will be “head of media and […]
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Triggit To Open Real-Time Bidding To All Advertisers Says CEO Coelius
Triggit announced its new self-service, demand-side platform for online display advertising today. Read more on TechCrunch. AdExchanger.com spoke to Triggit CEO Zach Coelius about the launch and his expectations for the product. AdExchanger.com: How different is this new platform then what you have been running to date? ZC: Our launch today is the beta version […]
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Convertro Tackling Cookie-Free Attribution For Digital Marketers Says CEO Zwelling
Jeff Zwelling is CEO and Co-Founder of Convertro, a marketing metrics attribution company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Convertro trying to solve? JZ: Marketers today are in large part “flying blind” when it comes to properly allocating their marketing dollars among their various marketing channels. I say this because most advertisers are relying upon outdated tracking […]
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CRO Teresi On MTVN Deal And Quantcast's Cross-Digital Potential
Quantcast announced a recent deal with MTV Networks in which Quantcast will offer “audience targeting capabilities on sites in MTVN’s domestic online portfolio, including MTV.com, VH1.com, ComedyCentral.com and Spike.com, as well as on partner sites in the company’s Tribes vertical ad network.” Read the release. Quantcast CRO Todd Teresi discussed the announcement and its cross-channel, […]
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OpenAmplify CEO Redgrave Discusses Brand Engagement With Semantic Technology
OpenAmplify recently announced research which showed that by using the company’s semantic technology, it was able to discover engagement levels for certain brand ads – such as Audi ads after the Super Bowl, in this case. Read the release. Mark Redgrave, CEO of OpenAmplify, discussed the findings with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Are brands such as Audi […]
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Turn Says AdECN Real-Time Bidding Works; YuMe Gets $25 Million; Rubicon Project Exec Shifts; Media Contacts Selects Adify
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turn Climbs Aboard AdECN It’s ALIVE! AdECN is evidently humming with the RTB-infused Federated system as the Turn blog sheds light on the remarkably stealthy proceedings at Microsoft. (It’s hard for big Microsoft to be stealthy, right?) According to Turn Senior Director of Engineering […]
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CEO Calvin Lui Plays The Cloud Card With Tumri's Marketing Analytics Offering
Creative optimization company, Tumri, announced in a release today what it calls a new cloud-based, “real-time marketing analytics solution” with the goal of simplifying “campaign launch and reduce time-to-value for the most common types of dynamic creative marketing campaigns.” Read the release. AdExchanger discussed the announcement with Tumri CEO Calvin Lui. AdExchanger.com: It would seem […]
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CEO Goel Discusses PubMatic Premier Platform, Defines Its Version Of The Sell-Side Platform (SSP)
Today, PubMatic announced that it is offering a next rev in its publisher-side yield optimization platform which notably includes “guaranteed inventory yield management” and possibly puts it into competition with Yieldex, which has been working the direct sales optimization side for publishers for a while now. See the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev […]
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Epperson And Team Announce Simpli.fi; The Geo Stack; Ad Networks Keep Growing
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Digital Element On Postcode Targeting And U.S. And Europe Tech Targeting Interest
In a release yesterday, Digital Element announced that it would begin offering postcode-level (“zip code” in the U.S.) targeting capabilities. (See the release.) Digital Element’s Vice President Frank Bobo discussed the implication of European expansion and the market for IP targeting. AdExchanger.com: Can you help us with the jargon? What does the phrase “postcode-level database” […]
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Adap.tv Announces Video Ad Exchange Clients; Right Media Exchange Outlines The Future; Lead Gen Celebrates: Quinstreet IPO Hits
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adap.tv Gets Video Ad Exchange Clients Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth covers the news that Adap.tv has signed Gannett, Omnicom and Publicis among others to its ad exchange. Trying to temper concerns about lower CPMs, Adap.tv’s CEO Amir Ashkenazi says that in comparison to display […]
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TagMan GM And Founder Baron Discusses Funding And Business Momentum
AdExchanger.com discussed TagMan‘s new funding announcement (See release.) and recent momentum with Jonathan Baron, co-founder and general manager of Tagman. AdExchanger.com: What attributes did you look for in a funding partner? How have you found the funding climate? JB: We sought partners that had an understanding of the online ad marketplace such that they could […]
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New Dapper CEO Beriker On The Direct Response Display Channel
James Beriker was named CEO of Dapper, an online advertising technology company. Beriker’s previous roles include CEO at Efficient Frontier, a search engine marketing firm. See the story. Beriker discussed Dapper and his experience with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: AdWeek quoted you as saying, “It’s [the] beginning days of display is a very powerful direct response channel.” […]
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Google Search Retargeting Through AdSense; Display Ad Drumbeat Quickens With Data; BlueKai's Pulse Looks At Travel Intenders
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Search Retargeting From his Bronte Media blog, Niki Scevak unearths Google search retargeting efforts as Google’s Inside AdSense blog quietly announced last week that a “few hours” of search queries will be used to help target AdSense display ads: “The technical way that […]
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eXelate Releases Index Report On Intenders; UK Adopts IAB VAST Standards; Pass The Patent Portfolio
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. eXelate Releases Intender Report Data exchange, eXelate, released the “eXelate indeX, a research report based on audience interest and purchase intent trends observed by its data lab.” Among the findings, Apple’s iPad announcement ignited purchase intent for portable computing products – Google’s Nexus One […]
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AdExchanger: Crisis In Ad City (Part II)
A (somewhat) weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Omnicom Reports Earnings, Affirms Acquisition Mode; Google Thinking About Super-Ultra-Fast Broadband; FetchBack Gets Sears
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Omnicom Reports; Acquisitions Imminent? Agency holding company, Omnicom Group, reported Q4 earnings yesterday. Profit fell, but hey, there’s profit ($229.6 million worth). Organic revenue fell – but not as much as analysts expected. Read more from AdWeek. Also, it looks like Omnicom is on […]
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VivaKi's David Kenny On The Agency Challenge, Creative And Automation
David Kenny is Managing Partner of VivaKi, which combines the media and digital assets of the Publicis Groupe including Starcom, Zenith, Mediavest, Optimedia, Digitas, Razorfish and Denuo. AdExchanger.com: Everyone is talking about how agencies need to evolve media buying. Every major holding company has announced a media trading desk strategy. What areas of the workflow […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingIs A Demand-Side Platform The Future Of The Ad Network?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO at LucidMedia. Demand Side Platforms (DSP) are hot! I can tell by the huge agency interest, and even more eager venture capitalists anxious to get […]
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New Simulmedia CRO Jon Werther Looks At Growing Opportunity For Digital In TV
Jon Werther, a former AOL/Time Warner executive has joined Dave Morgan’s Simulmedia, which leverages digital to optimize TV program promotion, as Chief Revenue Officer. View the release on Simulmedia’s website. Werther discussed the new opportunity with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: In your estimation, where is digital in the mindset of broadcast executives today? Have they caught up? […]
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X+1 Reports Strong Revenue Growth In 2009; ComScore Says Yahoo! Still In Display Lead; Havas Shrinks In 2009, But Digital Grows
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DSP Revenues Power Higher It’s happened again! Another private ad tech company is reporting its financial progress – this time it’s demand-side platform [x+1]. The company said in a release, “Fourth quarter revenue increased 62 percent over the same period in 2008, while revenue […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingYour DSP Has RTB
“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 Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. Last week the folks at Admeld threw a tremendous event on the topic of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) at the […]
