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InterCLICK Taps Markets For $12 Million; Pres Katz Says Ad Network Model Is Validated
Fresh from its move to the NASDAQ, InterCLICK announced that it has succesfully placed “2,875,000 shares of common stock to a select group of institutional investors.” Given the sale price of $4.50 share, InterCLICK now has a cool $12 million in net proceeds to play with. Acquisitions? More tech? Feet on the street? We’ll see. […]
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2010 Brings Improvement, M&A Says Index Ventures' Dom Vidal
Dom Vidal is a partner at Index Ventures, which backs – among others – OpenX, Criteo and Adconion, an ad network. AdExchanger.com: What sets Index Ventures apart from other venture firms? DV: At Index, we invest in technology and life science companies from early through to the growth stage of their development. We’re global in […]
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CPL Advertising Invading Brand Advertising Says Pontiflex CEO Lasker
Zephrin Lasker is CEO and Co-founder of Pontiflex, a cost-per-lead marketplace. AdExchanger.com: Has performance marketing started to reach the brand marketer? ZL: Definitely. When we started Pontiflex two years ago, we anticipated that most of our growth would come from direct response marketers. But surprisingly we have seen a very rapid adoption of Cost-per-Lead advertising […]
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ScanScout Partnering Like Maniacs; VideoEgg Tying To Offline With ComScore; MIG In The News
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Partners Swarm ScanScout In a release, video ad network ScanScout said its partnering with a gaggle of “premium” brands including Warner Brothers, Warner Music and Marvel Comics to provide its video ad network services. Read the release. On Beet.tv, CEO Bill Day talks “engagement” […]
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Google Webcast Recap: Demand-Side Platform Performance Varies On DoubleClick Ad Exchange
In today’s Google Investor Webcast, a team of Google execs focused on the company’s display advertising products including VP of Product Management, Neil Mohan, who addressed Google’s strategy for the Exchange. The on-demand version of the webcast (“December 15 Educational Webcast”) is available on Google’s IR site. Mohan’s presentation was an abbreviated version of the […]
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Mpire Announces AdXpose Deal With WPP Group And GroupM's MediaCom, Discusses Risk Management
Mpire announced in a release today that over the course of four months, WPP Group agency, MediaCom, implemented Mpire’s AdXpose technology for a consumer electronics firm resulting in what it says was significant performance improvement by, among other things, “removing underperforming sites from the network buy.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com followed up with Mpire CEO […]
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Peerset Human Interest Data Providing Psychographic Targeting Capabilities Says CEO John-Baptiste
Mike “JB” John-Baptiste is CEO of Peerset, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What is Peerset? MJB: Peerset is an ad targeting service focused on leveraging social psychographics to connect a marketer with a user. Social psychographics is a category of consumer data we are helping the market understand and embrace. Think about it most simplistically […]
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CBS Has That Ad Exchange Feeling; DataXu On DSPs; Clickable Clicking; PubMatic Reading TVGuide.com
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CBS Lovin’ Ad Exchanges Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth breaks the supposed bad news for ad networks that CBS Interactive is showing the door to arbitrage in hopes of boosting direct ad sales, eliminating channel conflict and getting control of their data. The good news? […]
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Google Talks Display Advertising and DoubleClick Ad Exchange
Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management at Google, announced on the Google blog that tomorrow (Tuesday, 12/15) at 10 a.m. PT, Google is “hosting an educational (live) webcast for analysts, investors and press about our display advertising business.” Similar to its September webcast which looked at recent innovations in search, this one promises to […]
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Lotame Taps Agency Thought Leader Eric Porres To Power Messaging For Social Ad Targeting Future
Social ad targeting firm, Lotame, named Eric Porres it’s Chief Marketing Officer in a release today. Read it on the Lotame blog. Lotame also announced that it’s paying the piper (ComScore) to be included in the ComScore ad network report as the company looks to position itself against the reach of traditional ad networks. Porres […]
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Click Forensics CEO Paul Pellman On Display And Search Traffic Quality
Paul Pellman is CEO of Click Forensics, a traffic quality management company which released “an upgraded version of its Yahoo! TQ Forecast feature” last week. AdExchanger.com: Can you explain the problem CF is solving a bit more in detail – with an example? And, how does an ad network send search traffic? PP: Sure. Most […]
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AdShuffle Serving Ads For Publishers And Advertisers Says CEO Buell
Ruben Buell is CEO of AdShuffle. AdExchanger.com: How has AdShuffle evolved since its inception? What opportunities is AdShuffle seeing today that it didn’t see when AdShuffle began in 2005? RB: AdShuffle started out as a real-time ad serving solution for publishers in 2005 and has grown into a fully integrated real-time advertiser and publisher solution […]
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CPM Is History Says Koretz; Yahoo! Display Up; More Search And Display; AdReady Gets New CEO; PubMatic On Tiger Woods Yield
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Thumbs Down On CPMs Lightening rod, David Koretz (AdExchanger.com Q&A), takes a less controversial position than usual and says that the CPM is dead save for a few large sites (WSJ, NY Times, etal.) which can still provide a unique branding experience for advertisers. […]
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Triggit's Self-Serve Technology Platform Leveraging RTB Says CEO Coelius
Zach Coelius is CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: So what is Triggit – and where’d the name come from? Are you a buying platform? A media buying services company? ZC: Triggit provides Real Time Bidding (RTB) technology and services to innovative marketers and their advertising agencies. Specifically, Triggit’s technology individually prices […]
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Aol. Goes Publicly On Its Own; Greystripe Mobile Display Ad For Droid; AdWeek Sold; Agency Arbitrage Remains Hot Button
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Officially Spun As David Kaplan of PaidContent said from this twitter account, it was “not an auspicious day for AOL’s stock: ended down 0.68 percent at $23.51” in its opening day of trading. Erik Sherman of Bnet reviews recent analysis of the newly-minted […]
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NetSeer On Concept-Based Advertising
John Mracek is CEO of advertising technology company, NetSeer. NetSeer announced a new offering today called “concept-based” advertising. Read the release (PDF). Concept-based advertising sounds a lot like semantic or contextual. Is the “secret sauce” the real-time identification of concept categories like “Italian food” or “headphones”? The secret sauce is the ability to algorithmically, and […]
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Adgregate Markets Moves Into Mobile Display eCommerce
Henry Wong is CEO of Adgregate Markets, a transactional performance ad network and technology company. The company announced today that it ran its first mobile commerce campaign with NBC Universal using its ShopAds technology. Read the release. Generally speaking, when do you think mobile display advertising reaches significant scale and what may be some of […]
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Rocket Fuel-s With $2.85 Million; P Is For Picard And Privacy; Nielsen Reports "Time Spent" Increasing Online
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Fuel For The Rocket Rocket Fuel has raised $2.85 million more in cash from “existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures, with participation from other backers and company executives” according to Joseph Tartakoff of PaidContent. Read more. To view the SEC filing, click here. Display Catching […]
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Transparency Versus Control: Which Matters More in Network Buys?
“Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer of Undertone Networks. Over the last several months there have been numerous reports about fraud impacting all facets of the online advertising industry – publishers, networks, agencies – and ultimately, […]
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Magazines Get Digital; Ad Spend Looking Up at WPP, Publicis; Tremor Media Is DoubleVerified
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mags Getting Digital Staci Kramer of PaidContent reports that five magazine publishers have made it official: they’re going after the e-reader market with open standards for the “technology, advertising and digital sales.” The five pubs – Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith), News Corp, and Time […]
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Outside.In Gets $7 Mil; AdMeld Optimizing Mobile Display; FTC Roundtable Sparks Discussion, Fun
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Outside.In VC Pockets Neighborhood news/blog aggregator Outside.In announced that it rang the register with a $7 million round of financing with investors that include CNN, Union Square Ventures and Betaworks . As newspapers struggle to find a solution to drive revenue, local news solutions […]
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Australian Publishers Looking To Retarget With Exchanges Says Funbox VP Childs-Eddy
John Childs-Eddy is VP of Business Development at Australian direct response ad network, Funbox. AdExchanger.com: How is the Australian ad network business different than ad network businesses in other parts of the world? JCE: It’s far less fragmented. The Australian market is essentially controlled by an oligopoly of a few main publishing players who work […]
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Turner's Jacobs On Audience Buying; Agencies To Profit Share With Clients; IPO News; The Holiday Shopping Spree
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turner’s Jacobs On Audience Buying Turner’s Walker Jacobs talks to Mediaweek about a new tool used by the Turner direct sales team called Nexus which can help predict future performance of a client’s ad campaign using audience data sources include ComScore and @plan. In […]
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NBC Bought By Comcast; IAB's Rothenberg Talks Exchanges; Khan Says AOL To Pull Premium From Advertising.com
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Yahoo! on Right Media Exchange: We're Premium, That's P-R-E-M-I-U-M
Yahoo! is on the warpath again today with its premium messaging as a blog post by Stephanie Dorman, Senior Director, Client Services and Operations, bangs the drum on the closing of DMX and the new “premium” focus for its Right Media Exchange: “We believe that the future of the Right Media Exchange lies in the […]
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The SEM Arrives: Efficient Frontier CEO Karnstedt Discusses His Company's Move To Display
David Karnstedt is President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, a performance marketing company. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the key drivers for Efficient Frontier recently announcing expansion of its product line into display advertising? Our goal is to unify optimization across both search and display. There were several developments that led us to launch our […]
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Adchemy CEO Nukala Says Marketers Need To De-Average For Better Return On Ad Spend
Murthy Nukala is CEO of Adchemy, a demand-side buying platform. AdExchanger.com: What is “de-averaging” as it relates to digital advertising and how does Adchemy “de-average”? Would you say “addressable media” is an equivalent? MN: De-averaging summarizes a trend toward increasing the relevance of digital advertising. Today’s dominant online advertising model primarily relies on a one-size-fits-all approach […]
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Agencies Talking Demand-Side Platforms And Exchanges; PaperG Takes 1.1 Million Paper Dollars; CPX Interactive To Join DSP Game?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Impression-Level CEO Havas Digital Co-CEO Anthony Rhind talks with CMO.com about a range of digital issues for the agency and explains his agency’s views on media. Rhind says, “In terms of trading media in real time, we have been focused on how the evolving […]
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More Funding: $5.8 Million for OwnerIQ, $6 Million For Bizo
The funding hit parade has not abated as Boson-based, OwnerIQ, a targeting platform that uses ownership data points to effect client campaigns, and Bizo, an online B2B advertising company that uses its “bizographic” magic to target b2b audiences across inventory sources. CEO Jay Habegger told AdExchanger.com that this this funding round wasn’t as hard as […]
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Burt CEO Von Sydow On Creative, Media, The Marketer - And Its New Ad Software Play - Rich
Ad software company, Burt, recently announced a free version of Rich, Burt’s new analytics tool for marketers and creative agencies. AdExchanger.com spoke with advertising software company CEO Gustav Von Sydow (AdExchanger.com Q&A) on current challenges for creatives in the space as well as his company’s new product. AdExchanger.com: How are creative agencies adapting to the […]