Aaron Goldman is the founder and principal of Connectual, a digital marketing consulting firm. Goldman has written a new book called, “Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned From Google.” AdExchanger.com: Please share a little background on you and what inspired you to write this book. AG: I’ve been in a digital marketing guy for […]
David Kenny’s next stop after Publicis VivaKi is Akamai where he’ll become President. According to a press release, he will be “responsible for leading Akamai’s business operations, including the company’s product groups; global sales, services, and marketing; engineering; and networks and operations.” Akamai adds an agency player and former CEO of Digitas to its exec […]
BuzzLogic announced recently that former OMG businessintelligence exec John Donahue was hired as CTO. Read the release. The company also announced yesterday that it has raised $8 million in Series B financing Adams Capital Management with participation from Ackerley Partners. Read the release. Donahue discussed the ad industry and his new role. AdExchanger.com: Looking at […]
Jeremy Cornfeldt, Managing Director, Digital, of Media Storm, a digital media agency. AdExchanger.com: On a percentage basis, how much ad spend is devoted to display in a typical campaign? Can you see this changing going forward? Why or why not? JC: It really varies for our campaigns on the goals of each initiative. At the […]
Simon Aurik is Business Development Director Europe of Yieldivision, a media agency based in The Netherlands. AdExchanger.com: What is Yieldivision? SA: We are a new breed of agency with a technology which allows us to buy inventory across multiple sources (exchanges, adnetworks, direct pubs and ssp’s). Our technology enables us to base our media buying […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?
AdExchanger.com spoke to Kurt Unkel, SVP of Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center, about recent events at the company as well as the integration of Razorfish and Atom Systems, Razorfish’s media trading unit. AdExchanger.com: What’s the difference between Vivaki, the VivaKi Nerve Center, and Audience On Demand? KU: Vivaki is the strategic entity created by Publicis Groupe […]
MDC Partners’ Varick Media has filled the role vacated by Darren Herman when he became the Chief Digital Officer of MDC’s kbs+p. On Thursday, the media trading platform named Neeraj Kochhar its new president. He’ll report into Herman. Read more on PaidContent. Kochhar discussed his past experience at GroupM as well as the new data-driven […]
Andy Cocker, co-Founder and Managing Partner of UK-based, Infectious Media Ltd, a media agency, discussed the company’s momentum in the media trading space – and the company’s Impression Desk media buying platform – with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Please define Infectious Media‘s value proposition. AC: We are a media buying services company, specializing in data driven display […]
In a release last week, IPG’s Mediabrands announced that Brendan Moorcroft had been appointed CEO for Cadreon, Mediabrands online media buying platform which services Universal McCann (UM), Initiative, Mediabrands Ventures and their clients.”Read the release. Moorcroft discussed Cadreon’s development and his views on the competitive landscape. AdExchanger.com: When does Cadreon become available to all media […]
Tim Hanlon spoke with AdExchanger.com regarding his new role at Catalyst S+F. The Former VivaKi Ventures’ exec, will be joining the marketing firm as a partner and be “responsible for the firm’s venture investment and advisory strategies, as well as the lead consultant on advanced media issues.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com: How will your experience […]
IPG Mediabrands’ agency trading desk, Cadreon, recently announced plans to track and verify audience in addition to integrating ad verification vendor technology. Read more on MediaPost. Cadreon’s VP of Media Technology Michael Brunick discussed the latest developments in the holding company’s trading desk strategies. AdExchanger.com: Regarding new audience verification strategy, Cadreon will use “various Research […]
Will Margiloff is Founder and co-CEO of Innovation Interactive, a digital marketing services company owned by ad holding company, Dentsu. Can you share the progress being made with the integration into Dentsu? Any unforeseen synergies being unlocked at this early stage? We are in the early stages of our deal so many of the opportunities […]
“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 […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, ATOM, at Razorfish. Advertisers often feel their brand is their most valuable asset and spend lots of time, effort and money to build and maintain it. Of course an advertiser would know their audience, right? Right, but the real question is if […]
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 […]
The former CEO of WPP Group’s Mindshare and President of Publicis Groupe/Starcom MediaVest Group’s StarLink, Scott Neslund, has been named CEO of Red Bricks Media, a search and performance marketing agency. Read the release. The allure of digital continues to draw top executives as Neslund’s appointment echoes last week’s announcement that GroupM’s new CEO would […]
UK’s Telegraph is reporting that traditional media agency Aegis is being forced to reveal discounts for TV and newspaper ads it bought on behalf of yogurt company Danone in Germany. And you thought they only ate schnitzel in Germany. So why should you care? Well, if you’re anybody except a vendor caught in a negotiation […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Karin Blake, Senior Lead of Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. Ten Predictions for 2010 200% growth in the DSP market. 25% failure in the DSP market. Online publishers take an offensive position in how/where their inventory is sold. Real-time creative optimization becomes and integration solution for […]
How will agencies survive if there is no agency of record? After reading a recent Advertising Age story from Kunur Patel about “the dropping” of three digital agencies of record in favor of a competition of ideas between three others, one might justifiably wonder how is the agency going to survive in this climate. Have […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. The CEO of a major ad exchange recently likened the flow of data from real-time ad exchanges to a fire hose – I like to think of it as more of a broken water main. There is so […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“The Provocateur” column is intended to incite discussion on a variety of topics around the evolution of digital media. Lots of conversation and buzz around advertising exchanges (and exchange-like players) such as the Google Advertising Exchange, Right Media at Yahoo!, AdECN at Microsoft, Pubmatic, Rubicon Project, FIM Serve, etc., as they are popping up around […]
Matt Greitzer is VP of Search Marketing and Head of ATOM Systems at Razorfish. AdExchanger.com: What can you tell us about momentum in Razorfish’s ad exchange practice? Any year-over-year comparisons that you can draw? We’ve only been in market for about nine months, so it’s too early for year-over-year comparisons, but we’ve seen consistent month […]
Matt Spiegel is CEO of OMG Digital, the digital media buying division of Omnicom Group. Certainly, the new Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange will have big impact because it’s the first sizable pool of inventory which has real-time bidding – this is what we’ve been waiting for. Being able to buy using real-time bidding is important […]
