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RAMP Digital CEO Mendez Says Direct Response And Brand Marketing Are Blurred Online
Jonathan Mendez is CEO of RAMP Digital, a digital, performance media agency. AdExchanger.com: Why did you found your performance marketing agency, RAMP Digital? JM: I was becoming much more interested in emergent technologies for delivering relevance, namely APIs and semantic driven tools. At Offermatica (now Omniture Test&Target) our platform was 100% JavaScript and while that […]
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Google's Long Tail Revolt?; Exchange 3.0; Initiative On Performance; Publicis Approaches 25% In Digital Revs
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DoubleClick Ad Exchange Update – Long Tail Revolt? Barry Schwartz of the Search Engine Roundtable blog notes a trend among a small number of long tail publishers regarding their perception of “Certified Ad Networks” accessing and buying the Google Content Network through the DoubleClick […]
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If I Were A Publisher...
By John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchanger.com. For starters, if I were a publisher these days, I’d become a buyer. I’m not exactly sure how this happens. What should publishers buy, after all? But, publishers need to jump into the weeds and close their gap of understanding when it comes to the rapid innovation occurring on […]
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ADISN Leveraging Data Across The Social Web To Target Display Ad Placements Says CEO Moeck
Andy Moeck is CEO of ADISN, a creative optimization technology firm. AdExchanger.com: Why did you start Adisn? AM: We started ADISN because we were tired of seeing ads or having ads served to us with zero relevance to what we were doing and interested in at that time. From that point, we saw a few […]
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Optimizing Travel Display Ads; AOL Approaches Take-off; Newspapers Aim To Improve Ad Targeting Through Registration
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Optimizing Travel Display Ads Rita Chang of Advertising Age profiles agency, Click Here, and how it’s using Teracent’s multi-variate, display ad campaign management system to effect real-time updates and optimization for advertiser Travelocity. Chang notes that as a result, Travelocity’s cost-per-transaction is down 79%. […]
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Ad Networks Preferred; Agencies On The Run?; On Coleman's Return; Icahn Leaves Yahoo!
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Networks Preferred The New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford says that even though big brand marketers may make a few high profile buys of “premium” ad inventory – such as the home pages of newspapers – it doesn’t mean the newspapers are continuing to […]
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Search And Display In The WSJ; New York Times Q3 Earnings, Upbeat On Digital; OwnerIQ Enters Demand-Side Platform Space
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search Spend Trend The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel covers trends in search ad spending and how marketers are trying new strategies (display!) to get the most bang for their buck. She cites recent GroupM Search and ComScore research as marketers are using social […]
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Fox Offering DSP Services To OMG Digital; Yahoo! Earnings In Review; Meeker Delivers 2009 Internet Report; More Buzz On Ad Exchanges
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. OMG Digital And Fox Partner Reminding everyone that Fox has a demand-side platform, too, Fox Audience Network (FAN) and Omnicom Media Group announced that FAN will provide its planning tools called Living Segments to the media services agency. According to the release, “The agreement […]
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Peer39 Leveraging Semantics to Help Publishers and Ad Platforms Capitalize on Display Ad Inventory Says CEO Solomon
Amiad Solomon is CEO of Peer39, an online semantic advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe momentum in 2009 for Peer39. AS: This has been a breakout year for us as we have been recognized as the leading innovator in the field of semantic advertising and targeting. Early in 2009 we started working primarily with publishers […]
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Whither The IPO; Consumers Reaching Brands More Online; WPP Group Maintains Digital Lead
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Akamai Pixel-Free Audience Targeting Now Available Says CTO Afergan
As retailers prepare to enter their busiest season – Q4 and the holidays – Akamai has announced its ADS predictive segments solution for online retailers who want to reach in-market consumers and drive incremental sales. The new product is part of Akamai’s Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) line. How big is the in-market opportunity? According to […]
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Google Campaign Insights Launched; Millard On Ad Scarcity; AOL And Yahoo! Talking Content
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Releases Campaign Insights Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth looks at Google’s answer to Microsoft’s engagement mapping called “Campaign Insights.” According to Learmonth, Google compares data from the advertiser’s ad server and marries that to data from the Google Toolbar (- so that’s what it’s […]
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OMG Digital CEO Matt Spiegel On The Agency Model And Buying Platforms
Matt Spiegel is CEO of OMG Digital. This is the second part of a two-part interview. The first is here. AdExchanger.com: Given the speed of technological innovation today, some might say that media agencies will need to be more entrepreneurial, but they’re going to have a hell of a time because they’re just not built […]
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ComScore Releases September Ad Network Results; Exchanges To Rock UK; Taylor Leaves Yahoo!'s Right Media Exchange; Hanlon Leaving VivaKi
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Top Ad Networks For September ComScore released its top 50 ad networks and web properties by U.S. reach in September. 24/7 Real Media continues to climb the ad network charts with WPP Group’s demand at its back as over 150 million U.S. unique users […]
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OMG Digital CEO Matt Spiegel On The Future Buyer/Planner
Matt Spiegel is CEO of OMG Digital. This is the first part of a two-part interview. AdExchanger.com: Can you characterize what the buyer/planners of the future will look like? It would seem they have a math skillset and are focused on consumer insights – not just looking over an ad network plan and reporting the […]
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DataXu Spreads Demand-Side Platform Gospel; Google Sings About Earnings; Search Budgets Moving To Display?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DataXu Hits Digital Airwaves, Print DataXu’s President & CEO, Mike Baker, and Bruce Journey, CRO, were the subjects yesterday of ClickZ’s ongoing, free, interactive marketing and advertising Webcast series. To give a listen, click here (Sign-up gets you admission – available soon.). DataXu is […]
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Group Formed To Fight Display Ad Fraud; Digg Ads Performing Well; AdBrite Launches Open Source Platform
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Site For Exposing Fraudsters Following Emily Steel’s article in the Wall Street Journal about disappearing ads, it has come to AdExchanger.com’s attention that several ad networks have come together to out fraudsters and their sites. Called StopAdFraud.org, the site has comments and URL logs […]
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Give Me Audience Or Give Me Death: The Agency Buying Platform Strategy
There has been a growing waterfall of chatter about audience buying in online display advertising. Ad networks, demand-side buying platforms (DSPs) – whatever you want to call them – are targeting audience. Give me auto-intenders – stat! The venture capital world has taken a flying leap into the space as many of the big name […]
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Permuto Bringing All-Inclusive Ad Platform Says CEO Shamim
Shaukat Shamim is CEO & Co-Founder of Permuto. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea for Permuto come from? And how about the name – what’s the story there? SS: We are a company comprised of online advertising junkies, all of the founders been involved in online advertising from the formation days of Internet. We had our […]
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Triggit Announces Media Trading Strategy, Investors; Adgregate Markets Adds AdECN CEO To Board; Q3 Earnings Predictions
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Triggit On Media Trading And Investors Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch looks at media trader Triggit’s round of angel investment which includes a who’s who of technologists and venture capitalists including Reid Hoffman of Linkedin, Russ Siegelman of Kleiner Perkins, Larry Braitman, Founder of Adify, […]
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The Holy Grails Of Digital Advertising
You would think that the digital advertising industry has found religion given all the talk about the legendary “Holy Grail” these days. Enormous change is occurring all at once creating opportunity across the board for publishers, advertisers, ad tech companies, data providers and even the occasional blogger. As a result, the quest is “in-process” as […]
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VP Federico Says Monster Looking To Leverage Display Ad Exchanges In The Future
John Federico is VP, Global Media and Marketing Alliances at Monster Worldwide, an online employment website. How important is online display advertising to your media buying strategy? Are there any current challenges to display that keeps you from spending more? Display is very important to us – especially for our b2b advertising efforts due to […]
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INVISION CEO Watkins Says Advanced Television Advertising Tools Becoming A Necessity
Christine Watkins is CEO of INVISION INC., a provider of advertising sales management systems to the broadcast and cable network industries. The advertiser is looking for better attribution models across all forms of advertising these days including TV. Please discuss INVISION’s transition from a primary focus on tools for traditional television ad sales to an […]
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MediaMath Hires Katsur, Shows TerminalOne Platform; News Corp EVP Espinel On Market Forces; Yahoo! Exec Goes Glam
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Hires – Shows TerminalOne Screenshots MediaMath announced Monday that it has hired former DoubleClick-er and (most recently) CTO of Travel Ad Network, Anthony Katsur, as “General Manager, Platform.” Also, more news from MediaMath as the company sent AdExchanger.com exclusive screenshots of the new […]
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CEO Trifon Says Eyeblaster Looks Forward To Bringing Exchanges To Brand Marketers
Gal Trifon is CEO and Co-founder of Eyeblaster, a campaign management and advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Can you see video ad inventory available through an ad exchange model someday soon? What are the complexities? GT: That’s a tricky question — the efficiencies of an exchange are relevant for videos, but there is still the brand […]
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WSJ On Invisible Display Ads; Click Fraudsters In China; DSPs and Agencies; eXelate Launches Data Platform For Publishers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Invisible Ad Ben Edelman has returned from past ad exploits and this time he’s found that certain online display ads are being shown on websites – and you can’t see them nor can you see the pages on which they are displayed. Emily […]
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At PubMatic's Ad Revenue 2009; Nielsen Looks Cross-Channel; Ad Networks Continue To Grow
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Revenue 2009 Yesterday, PubMatic produced a successful, day-long event, Ad Revenue 2009, that brought together all sides of the online advertising ecosystem. AdExchanger.com was there in force (that means I was there) and moderated a fast-paced panel with Varick Media’s Darrren Herman, VivaKi’s […]
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SMX East Features Display Panel; Rubicon Project Gets REVVed; New White Paper On Display; PubMatic Gets HuffPo
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Featured At SMX East An SMX East display/search ad panel featuring representatives from Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange, Did-It, iProspect and ComScore tried to make the display case for search engine marketers who were not attending the more popular social media panel going on […]
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Tatto Media CEO Miao Says Ad Exchange Will Not Be Needed Someday
Lin Miao is Chief Executive Officer of Tatto Media, an online advertising network. AdExchanger.com: Tell us a little bit about Tatto Media. You position Tatto as an ad network, but during a recent panel at the ad:tech Chicago conference, you sounded more like a DR agency to me. What’s the story? LM: Tatto Media is […]
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Google Looking Like Agency; Regulating Regulation; Jeff Green Leaves AdECN Exchange; Big Budgets Move from TV To Online
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Google Ad Agency Oh boy… it’s the first of many stories like these. Company X goes to Google which supplies services just like any integrated agency. The Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Vascellaro covers the transformation of the search giant writing, “Several big advertisers […]