Philipp Pieper is CEO of Proximic, a contextual technology company, which announced today that it was integrating its technology with real-time ad platform, AppNexus. Read the release. AdExchanger.com: How has Proximic evolved over the past few years? PP: Proximic is built on a unique search technology foundation, designed for high performance and precision contextual matching. […]
Peer39 announced today that it has integrated its semantic targeting technology into Rubicon Project‘s REVV platform. From the release, “This partnership will also allow the more than 600 demand sales channels (ad networks, exchanges, DSPs, etc.) that transact in the Rubicon Project’s REVV Marketplace to optimize their display advertising campaigns based on Peer39 cookie-free semantic […]
Last week, Better Advertising announced that it would be directing the Open Data Partnership (ODP), which “will provide consumers with full transparency into this data and enable them to edit their information or opt out completely from any participating company’s cookie.” According to the release, initial partners include 33Across, Bizo, BlueKai, Demdex, eXelate, Lotame, SafeCount […]
Lotame, an online advertising marketing technology company, announced yesterday that it had taken $11 million in Series C funding from all of the company’s existing investors including Hillcrest, Battery Ventures, and Pinnacle Ventures. Read the release. Lotame CEO Andy Monfried discussed what Lotame is going to do with all that cash as well, the data […]
Paul McLenaghan is Vice President, AdAdvisor Platform for TARGUSinfo. AdExchanger.com: TARGUSinfo launched AdAdvisor data solution in February of 2009. Knowing what you know now, what one change would you make to the AdAdvisor strategy if you could start over again? PM: I don’t think we would have changed our approach at all. We knew we […]
Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an online data exchange. Tawakol recently discussed his company’ strategic direction with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Looking at the new website, it seems BlueKai’s business is evolving? Can you touch on how? OT: BlueKai’s business is constantly evolving to respond to new demands that we see in the industry but we […]
Jim Brock is CEO of Privacy Choice, a web tools company focused on consumer privacy. AdExchanger.com: First, please share a bit of background on you. And how did you come up with the idea for Privacy Choice? JB: I’ve always been in and around ad-supported media, as a Yahoo! executive and as a founder, investor […]
Marketshare Partners announced today that it has acquired analytics company, JovianData (AdExchanger.com Q&A from earlier in the year). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read the release. Wes Nichols, co-Founder and CEO of MarketShare Partners discussed the deal and the benefits of the combined companies. AdExchanger.com: Explain the fit between JovianData and MarketShare Partners […]
In a press release, local business data provider Localeze “announced its Enhanced Business Registry, which includes 14 million business listings, will be featured in Facebook Places.” Read more. Localeze president Jeff Beard discussed the implications of the Facebook deal. AdExchanger.com: What is the market opportunity that you see for Localeze? Localeze’s market opportunity is vast. […]
Scott Knoll is SVP of Display Media for Datran Media, a digital marketing technology company and owners of Aperture. AdExchanger.com: Looking at the industry as a whole since last we spoke, what surprises you about what’s happened in the industry in the past year? SK: There is a graph that I like to draw (often […]
