WPP Group has shared some new details on revenue performance and strategy for its Xaxis trading unit. Xaxis grew its revenue by 28% during the first quarter, said Pivotal Research Analyst Brian Wieser in a research note. WPP had previously stated the business had 2012 media billings of $270 million and a headcount of 200. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up…Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cheaper, Future Inventory YouTube says it’s an “upfront” contrarian, lowering rates for media buyers in a bid to attract a bigger share of those TV budgets. “Last year we were rigid; we got a few big advertisers with huge checks,” YouTube Sales Chief Lucas Watson […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Omnicom Programmatic Dan Salmon, analyst at BMO Capital Markets, hosted a meeting with Omnicom CFO Randy Weisenburger on Wednesday. In a note to investors after the meeting, Salmon writes, “With [Omnicom] having reported earnings last week, the conversation focused primarily on the long-term impact […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Ad Net Rumblings Reuters describes some campaigns that have run on the Amazon’s secretive ad network since late 2012. They included clients like Kimberly-Clark (Huggies), Ubisoft and an unnamed movie marketer. For the latter, “data on purchases of related DVDs, books and music […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Publishing Microsoft Advertising – or is it Microsoft Publishing? – announced a new ad placement called VersaTiles for its popular email portal Outlook.com. Microsoft Advertising’s Jennifer Creegan explains that the ad has three “states:” “Default state: Consumers see the Default state as they […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bots And Ghouls, Cont. On Adweek, Mike Shields wades again in the bot muck, outing properties and networks that appear to benefit from fraudulent traffic. Media6Degrees and RadiumOne alerted him to sites with large amounts of audience overlap – suggestive of bots. Mevio.com, Forward […]
Here is today’s AdExchanger.com news roundup…Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdBrite Inside Five engineers from recently shuttered ad network/exchange AdBrite have re-emerged at Intel Media, reports All Things D’s Peter Kafka. Intel reportedly scooped up AdBrite’s former CTO and four other employees to work on its TV-over-the-Web project. “I’m told they will work on […]
Google is pushing even more “premium” and direct-negotiated media deals through its programmatic pipes. This week it added a new sell-side Private Auction bid type to DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Google calls this an evolution of Preferred Deals, first offered last year as a means for publishers to negotiate direct deals with buyers and then transact […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shoppable Images Online tag management company Stipple is going after the ecommerce market with its new tool, Stipple Shopping, which enables shoppers to purchase by clicking on an image without being redirected to another page or website. “We don’t want to just provide information; […]
And the results are in! According to its Q1 2013 results, the GOOG made about $3.5 billion in profits, depending on your accounting principles. Get the release here. From the release: “Google Revenues (advertising and other) – Google revenues were $12.95 billion, or 93% of consolidated revenues, in the first quarter of 2013, representing a 22% […]
