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 […]
