Demand-side platform CPM Advisors announced that it would be leveraging the technology infrastructure of publisher optimizer, Mediageeks. Read the release. AdExchanger.com discussed the announcement with CPM Advisors CEO Rob Leathern and MediaGeeks GM Jacob LeWinter. AdExchanger.com: It’s interesting that a demand-side tech company is partnering with a publisher-side technology company – and beyond just buying […]
WildTangent, with an online games ad network of over 100+ million unique users according to the company, announced a “unique advertising platform, BrandBoost™, which provides brand marketers the opportunity to reward gamers with complimentary game play and virtual items in return for brand engagement.” Read the release (PDF). WildTangent’s EVP of Business Development and Marketing, […]
Triggit announced its new self-service, demand-side platform for online display advertising today. Read more on TechCrunch. AdExchanger.com spoke to Triggit CEO Zach Coelius about the launch and his expectations for the product. AdExchanger.com: How different is this new platform then what you have been running to date? ZC: Our launch today is the beta version […]
AdSafe Media recently released its first Safety Report that showed – when looking at display ad media across its platform – “58% of network traffic was ‘invisible’” and “29% of traffic was served to sites featuring UGC” among many data points. Read the release (PDF). And, you can download the report here (PDF – signup […]
Resonate Networks announced that it has launched attitudinal targeting in a release on Wednesday. AdExchanger.com discussed the new targeting capabilities with Resonate Networks’ CEO Bryan Gernert. AdExchanger.com: Given the rich sources of social data available today, how important is social media to creating Resonate’s dataset? Or, is it important? BG: While social data is important […]
Adam Cahan is CEO of Auditude which provides a technology platform for video management and monetization. AdExchanger.com: Please provide some background. How did Auditude begin? AC: Auditude was founded in 2005 around our Content ID/fingerprinting technology. In 2007, we took our first round of institutional financing and began to build the team we have in […]
Vlad Stesin is VP, Strategy at BLOOM Digital Platforms, makers of AdGear, an ad serving platform. AdExchanger.com: Please discuss AdGear. How did it start? And what challenge is AdGear trying to solve? The team working on the platform has built and operated the proprietary ad serving infrastructure at Cossette, Canada’s largest independent advertising agency. We’ve […]
The demand-side platform (DSP) leaderboard just added another competitor as LucidMedia says publicly for the first time that it, too, has a DSP solution – in fact, they’ve had it for over a year now according to the company. With more details on the way in the coming weeks, LucidMedia CEO Ajay Sravanapudi discussed demand-side […]
Demand-side platform provider, CPM Advisors, announced a partnership today with BlueKai today which it says uniquely offers clients access to BlueKai’s in-market data directly within CPM Advisor’s CPMatic media buying platform. To date, CPM Advisors has been a part of BlueKai’s Certification program. Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to CPM Advisors CEO Rob Leathern more […]
Zach Coelius is CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: So what is Triggit – and where’d the name come from? Are you a buying platform? A media buying services company? ZC: Triggit provides Real Time Bidding (RTB) technology and services to innovative marketers and their advertising agencies. Specifically, Triggit’s technology individually prices […]
Murthy Nukala is CEO of Adchemy, a demand-side buying platform. AdExchanger.com: What is “de-averaging” as it relates to digital advertising and how does Adchemy “de-average”? Would you say “addressable media” is an equivalent? MN: De-averaging summarizes a trend toward increasing the relevance of digital advertising. Today’s dominant online advertising model primarily relies on a one-size-fits-all approach […]
Toby Korner is VP, Account Management at [x+1], which released a new CPG-focused product today (Release here. More here from AdWeek.) AdExchanger.com: Why offer a CPG product? Curious your thoughts on product development for this as I assume you see identified CPG as low-hanging fruit for a reason – perhaps for brand dollars? TK: You […]
Eric Roza is President of DataLogix, an advertising data and technology company. AdExchnanger.com: Can you discuss trends you’re seeing in the data marketplace? ER: There’s no question that data is hot all of a sudden. But, candidly, the use of data to drive online advertising effectiveness is still in its infancy. To give you perspective […]
Shaukat Shamim is CEO & Co-Founder of Permuto. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea for Permuto come from? And how about the name – what’s the story there? SS: We are a company comprised of online advertising junkies, all of the founders been involved in online advertising from the formation days of Internet. We had our […]
Mike Baker is CEO of DataXu, a demand-side, media buying platform. Tell us about your new agreement with Havas. What does this mean for DataXu? And, even advertising as a whole? We have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Havas. Their marketplace insights have helped us apply our technology to make the process of buying and […]
Turn announced today that Bill Demas has been promoted to CEO of Turn, Inc., an online advertising platform and network company. Jim Barnett, who stepped down from the CEO role, will remain as Chairman. According to the company, this secession plan has been in the works for a while and Demas has been “deeply involved” […]
Helene Monat is President, AdSafe Media, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What challenge does AdSafe Media solve for marketers? HM: AdSafe Media was founded with the goal of helping brands implement safe and successful digital advertising strategies. While many brands and agencies have adopted best practices for advertising on the Internet, the complexities of the […]
Stephano Kim is President and Chief Operating Officer of x+1, an online buying platform and data company. AdExchanger.com: A recent SEC filing shows that [x+1] has recently raised approximately $2 million. What will the new funds be used for? And, why a smaller raise like this as opposed to a larger raise or using debt? […]
Demand-side platforms are becoming the rage. Whether you’re creating an agency platform strategy or offering white-label solutions for all ad buyers including ad networks, agencies or directs. So, what’s driving the media buying platform trend and when will Nintendo release its console version? I’ll leave the Nintendo version alone for now (Imagine “Dance Dance Revolution” […]
Paul Martino is CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. AdExchanger.com: What does the new Aggregate Knowledge (AK) Audience Discovery Platform do for advertisers and agencies that they can’t do today? AK’s Audience Discovery Platform delivers real-time, simultaneous optimization of inventory, audience, and creative. Inventory is optimized by determining which individual sites, ad networks, […]
