Triggit, a demand side platform that has lately repositioned itself as a Facebook Exchange specialist, has raised a $7.4 million Series B round from existing investors. Spark Capital and Foundry Group participated, as did the company’s recently added CRO Chris Zaharias. CEO Zach Coelius tells AdExchanger, “We’ve focused every bit of our development and resources […]
Chris Golec is CEO of Demandbase, which positions itself as a real-time targeting and personalization platform for B2B marketing. Golec recently spoke to AdExchanger about his company’s new ad platform, known as “Demandbase Company Targeted Advertising.” Read the release. AdExchanger: How did you get to the advertising “moment” at Demandbase? CHRIS GOLEC: For most B2B […]
Ian Lowe is CEO of AdSlot, formerly Webfirm Group Limited, based in Australia. Recently, his company launched the AdSlot platform in North America and Europe. According to the release, AdSlot was created by the founders of Hitwise, Andrew Barlow and Adrian Giles, and Adslot Publisher is “a direct sales platform” that currently includes several properties […]
With $8 million in new venture funding in his company’s pocket, one might think that the next step for publisher ad tech and marketplace firm isocket is to hire legions of sales and marketing folks. Not so, says isocket CEO John Ramey. It’s more about the technology challenge as he told AdExchanger: “We’re trying to […]
Having built one of the early ad servers at Matchlogic, TruEffect CEO Ron Hill and his core team have deep experience in ad tech. Among the fruits of those ad serving days were patents that Hill says have become the backbone of his company’s first-party advertising technology today. To be clear, TruEffect isn’t a young […]
The fearsome and punishing effects from Hurricane Sandy along the east coast the past few days has contributed to a series of record-breaking events across The Weather Company’s cable and digital properties. In particular, The Weather Channel’s parent company tells AdExchanger that on Friday, the amount of ad dollars coming in from programmatic channels exceeded […]
Back in 2008, Perfect Audience‘s Brad Flora started a Chicago-specific social news website called Windy Citizen. Though the audience grew, the ad revenue lagged which led to an investigation by Flora into the world of dynamic creative optimization (DCO). Soon, with a little help from tech incubator Y Combinator among others, his growing startup created […]
For the past couple of years, Jonathan Mendez, founder and CEO of Yieldbot, has been focusing his company’s efforts on unlocking the value in publisher data – specifically “intent.” Last week, Mendez discussed with AdExchanger the evolution of his company’s analytics product and its move towards media. AdExchanger: Since I last spoke with you on […]
Looking to provide an alternative to the ever-popular cookie targeting used in online display advertising today, Keith Pieper has decided it’s time to “pivot” his 10-person startup – was Pretarget (AdExchanger March 2011), now Sequential Media – and pursue the cookieless future. Pulling from Pretarget learnings, “Crowd Targeting” is Sequential’s core, patented technology that Pieper […]
Even before ex-Googler Marissa Mayer became Yahoo’s latest CEO two months ago, rumors were circulating that the company had been planning on selling off its Right Media Exchange. And as much of the attention around Yahoo’s programmatic ad platform strategy swirled around its “big data” offering Genome, the idea of jettisoning Right Media, the ad […]
Reddit seems to be in the news a lot lately as users flock to the platform in search of communities related to events or interests of the day, such as a “subreddit” on politics – or President Obama’s “Ask Me Anything” appearance – or how about cute cat pictures? The community site has few ads […]
It was 17 years ago that he founded the pioneering Internet advertising company, DoubleClick – and over four years since he helped sell it. But, original DoubleClick founder Kevin O’Connor can’t get the entrepreneurial bug out of his system and has targeted “recommendations” with a 60-person firm he co-founded in 2009 called FindTheBest. Like the self-explanatory […]
Display ad retargeter TellApart continues to grow its footprint among ecommerce publishers. CEO Josh McFarland recently discussed his company’s momentum and industry trends. Though he demurred on the subject of revenues, McFarland offered an optimistic outlook on his company and the industry at large in a Q&A with AdExchanger. AdExchanger: Can you talk a bit […]
Media companies aren’t what they used to be as distinct technology companies and agencies may percolate within. Think Hearst/iCrossing, Gannett and its cadre of digital tools and services, The New York Times, Conde Nast – and Washington Post Company and SocialCode. As CEO Laura O’Shaughnessy tells it, SocialCode is “the biggest player in the paid […]
Having originally conceived the idea while at vertical ad network Adify (which he sold to Cox in 2008 for a healthy $300 million), CEO Russ Fradin has not lost any steam in his own personal startup engine – let alone his passion for his latest startup, Dynamic Signal. Fradin explains that brand clients want to […]
The steady collection of extreme tech skills over at real-time ad platform and app marketplace AppNexus is creating a growing opportunity around services. The company is actively recruiting for an AppNexus Global Services unit, according to a company website, including NYC and London “open positions” from its job board. Call it a high tech agency or […]
Michael Scissons is founder and CEO of Syncapse, a Toronto-based, social performance management platform. Last week, Scissons’ company acquired Clickable, a social and search ad platform based in New York City. According to the release, “Clickable’s social and search advertising management functionality will become a key addition to Syncapse’s suite, which includes social media publishing, […]
A couple of weeks ago, Google announced its new Doubleclick Digital Marketing platform which further integrates DoubleClick ad products and begins to offer the promise of efficient cross-channel buying across media channels such as display and search. Many in the industry, particularly privately, see an inevitability in Google corralling much of the data-driven, display ad […]
With its deal to buy Vitrue, database giant Oracle wants to be the first to help corporate clients integrate social across human touch points – both within and beyond the organization, as well as up and down the purchase funnel. “By combining Oracle’s assets with social marketing, social calling, social service, and social monitoring, we […]
Online video advertising platform Adap.tv has a distinct goal in mind for its new App Center: to bring buyers, sellers and vendors that serve each into a single video marketplace for brand advertisers that will eventually include TV ad inventory. The thinking, Teg Grenager, Adap.tv co-founder and VP, told AdExchanger, is that as TV buying […]
Josh Manion is CEO of Ensighten, a tag management technology company. AdExchanger: Do you consider Ensighten a publisher side tag management company? Or do you consider some connection with the buy side as well? JM: If you were to categorize us in that framework, I would say we’re probably more publisher-focused… Some of our technology […]
Back in January, enterprise analytics company SAS took the plunge into the online ad ecosystem and acquired publisher-side ad server aiMatch. Read the Q&A with SAS’ exec Wilson Raj. Now that aiMatch has been “swallowed,” SAS is launching new advertising products (read the release) led by aiMatch’s former CEO Jeff Wood, who is now Senior […]
It’s still early in the online advertising “app” model business, but the reasoning for it is clear from a platform’s perspective. The more app companies that you have building products for your platform, the more robust and differentiated your platform becomes -which presumably leads to rising demand and, best of all, makes your platform that […]
On Wednesday, IBM continued its quest to build out an enterprise marketing system in support of the CMO by acquiring Tealeaf, an Internet and mobile commerce analytics firm. Read the release. Jay Henderson, Strategy Director of IBM Digital Marketing, discussed the acquisition and its implications with AdExchanger. AdExchanger: What does the Tealeaf acquisition by IMB […]
MediaMath has become the first demand side platform to spin off an agency from its core software business. With the creation of Kepler Group, the marketplace gets a new services provider for programmatic media buying – one that will work directly with high-touch brands. The new firm launches in the U.S. with nine clients, including […]
Phil Fernandez is CEO and President of Marketo, a marketing automation software company. Fernandez recently discussed his company and industry trends with AdExchanger. Click below or scroll for more: Audience Buying and Marketing Automation What Marketo Solves Defining Marketing Automation Addressing Brand, Competitive Set Marketer Transformation Milestones Ahead AdExchanger: Is there a connection between the […]
Xuehua Shen is CTO and Co-Founder of iPinyou, a demand-side platform technology company based in China. Shen discussed his company and its recently announced demand-side platform with AdExchanger earlier this month. Click below or scroll for more: Display In China iPinyou’s Demand-Side Platform Guaranteed Vs Non-Guaranteed Sourcing Display Supply Milestones Ahead AdExchanger: How has audience […]
Some of the best events related to ad technology are produced by vendors and The AppNexus Summit is one of those as it draws a strong, global crowd of entrepreneurial ad tech types who are ready to listen to what is ultimately a compelling, well-crafted sales pitch for the AppNexus platform. Above all, the event […]
We’re here to stay. And, we want to hear from you. That was the underlying theme delivered by executives from Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange (RMX) as they sought to portray an image of a mature, yet vibrant business during yesterday’s Right Media forum at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center of The Arts. Mixing art with […]
Centro CEO Shawn Riegsecker recently discussed his company with AdExchanger as well as Centro’s workflow software known as Transis. In addition, the company just launched Brand Exchange for digital, display advertising, which the company describes as “an invitation-only exchange to connect brand advertisers with a unique group of premium publishers.” Click below or scroll for more: […]
