Another TV upfronts season is in the books. Please send your condolences to Senior Editor Alyssa Boyle and Associate Editor Victoria McNally as they reluctantly return to reality and their overstuffed inboxes.
Marketers have a lot to contend with in 2019. Heads are spinning with thoughts of consumer-driven privacy concerns, different regulations in different regions, Apple blocking third-party tracking on Safari and how to buy TV in a world of digital delivery. At AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference Thursday, Google’s vice president of ad platforms Sean Downey considered […]
It’s a transformational time for Cannes Lions. After industry leaders this year criticized the festival for becoming too bloated, the company announced a set of changes last month to streamline the event and bring the focus back to creativity. Last Friday, Chairman Terry Savage stepped down after leading the festival for more than three decades. […]
Today, we’re excited to unveil the agenda for our inaugural front-of-the-year conference, Industry Preview 2014, taking place this Jan. 21 and 22 at The TimesCenter in New York City. Tracking the evolution of “ad tech” into digital marketing technology, Industry Preview will bring the best and brightest together to look at the year ahead — […]
That was quick! AdExchanger’s conference, PROGRAMMATIC I/O, is sold out for our April 8 San Francisco event which is focused on educating the marketer on The New Normal of Marketing – programmatic media. You can still get on the wait list for April 8 at www.programmatic.io. For attendees, the SF conference’s agenda is available and includes […]
The PROGRAMMATIC I/O agenda is ready! AdExchanger has published the full list of sessions for our upcoming conference at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel, April 8. Please visit www.programmatic.io to see the lineup. Given AdExchanger’s goal to educate marketers on the New Normal of Digital Marketing, the conference agenda offers a range of topics covering programmatic media […]
AdExchanger is pleased to announced new panelists have been added to our April 8 Programmatic I/O conference taking place at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel. Nicolas Franchet, Head of E-Commerce, Global Vertical Marketing at Facebook, and Gautam Thakar, GM, eBay Advertising, will join our “E-commerce and Targeting The Shopper” panel. One of several conference themes, marketers are increasingly […]
I am excited to announce that AdExchanger will produce two conferences in 2013 called Programmatic I/O. The events will be held on April 8 in San Francisco and on September 16 in New York City. Programmatic I/O is designed to educate Marketers about the New Normal for Digital Marketing Input/Output. For a hint of the […]
With the complexity around regulation of online behavioral advertising (OBA) and increasingly vocal support from online ad leaders about the stamping out of industry advertising on sites that support piracy, today’s lineup at the Personal Democracy Forum 2012 in New York City seemed especially relevant. Since 2004, Personal Democracy Forum (or PdF, for short) has […]
A Sunday start to the National Retail Federation’s annual “Big Show” brought together the biggest global brands in retail at the Javits Center in New York City. In a show like this, where the focus is the bottom line and the bottom-of-the-funnel, IBM was again making its pitch to brands and the CMO, in particular, […]
Every year, WPP Group’s GroupM unit brings together members of all of its agencies to trade notes, listen to experts and hear the “state of” GroupM. This year, the NYC-based event titled “What’s Next” closed with a Q&A between media moguls Rob Norman, CEO of GroupM North America, and Irwin Gotlieb, CEO of GroupM Worldwide. […]
Today, PubMatic produced its annual Ad Revenue Conference in New York City focused on the sell-side of the ad ecosystem. In a panel bringing together thought leaders who’ve “been busy” in the private marketplace or exchange space (whichever you prefer), Upstream Group’s Doug Weaver ably guided discussion about who’s buying and selling privately in audience-based […]
Today, during ClickZ’s Connected Marketing Week in San Francisco which brought together name-your-digital-pleasure marketers to discuss their respective marketing channel, ClickZ and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) also co-sponsored an Ad Networks & Exchanges event. Editor’s note: It would seem the name of this type of IAB event may need to evolve. Demand-side platforms don’t […]
David Cohen’s TechStars went off without a hitch as the mentorship-driven, seed stage investment organization presented 11 new web and software startups in Boulder, Colorado today. Only one of the companies could be classified as “pure play” ad tech: out-of-home marketplace ADstruc (AdExchanger.com Q&A), which announced it is closing in on a fairly sizable initial […]
At New York City’s Time Warner Center last Thursday, Collective sponsored its 2nd annual “Display Advertising Uncensored” event, which brought together a broad cross-section of display advertising players to discuss the growing momentum (and confusion!) in the display ad space. The panel was moderated by Randy Cohen of Advertiser Perceptions and included Lexi Reese of […]
Alan Chapell, online ad privacy guru and President of Chapell & Associates, led a panel at today’s IAB Networks and Exchanges event today entitled, “Data, Transparency and Privacy.” Among the sound bytes: An interesting give-and-take between Mpire’s AdXpose CRO Kirby Winfield and Yahoo! VP Ramsey McGrory regarding the verification space that echoed throughout the panel. […]
At today’s Internet Advertising Bureau Networks and Exchanges Marketplace, Terence Kawaja, Managing Partner of investment bank GCA Savvian, provided an extensive industry overview called “Parsing the Ad Tech Value Chain,” which spanned nearly every ad tech company strategy in the value chain between advertisers and publishers. Among his predictions: only $400 million in revenues for […]
This past Thursday morning, Search Engine Strategies reprised its display advertising panel, “Ad Networks & Exchanges: How the Search O/S is Changing the Display Game,” for the New York audience. Given that the panel was up against a formidable group of search engine marketing superstars in another room, this panel more than held its own […]
In today’s Google Investor Webcast, a team of Google execs focused on the company’s display advertising products including VP of Product Management, Neil Mohan, who addressed Google’s strategy for the Exchange. The on-demand version of the webcast (“December 15 Educational Webcast”) is available on Google’s IR site. Mohan’s presentation was an abbreviated version of the […]
His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco chaired the Monaco Media Forum – YouTube channel here – in his diminutive principality this past week with luminaries from advertising taking part in panel discussions as well as ad tech companies showing their wares. (Post-show, cigarette boat tour video with Sean Connery here.) Among those on […]
