Publishers

Rogier van den Heuvel is VP, Worldwide Sales, of messaging service and Amsterdam-based, eBuddy. AdExchanger.com: What’s the startup culture like in Europe – even Amsterdam, specifically?  Are there hotspots? (i.e. like Silicon Valley in California) Is creating interest with venture capital firms a challenge? There is a thriving start up culture in Europe including tech, […]

Feedback has been increasingly consistent within the large publisher community for the past few months. (Note: I’m not saying “premium publishers.” You can be premium and be small/targeted!) For large publishers looking to optimize display ad yield on their website, it’s no longer good enough for a yield optimization company to simply offer better CPMs […]

Markus Frind is CEO of PlentyOfFish.com, an online dating site. AdExchanger.com: The background is fairly well-known about Plenty of Fish (Inc. Magazine, 2009) – free dating site that has taken off with huge traffic and interest – and all built and serviced by one guy – you. Have things changed? Hire anyone? MF: I don’t […]

Patrick Keane is CEO of Associated Content, an online publishing platform. AdExchanger.com: Given AOL’s recent positioning in the content creation space, where does Associated Content fit? And, is it odd having Tim Armstrong as an advisor and competitor? PK: Tim remains an investor and friend of the company. I cannot comment about Tim or AOL’s […]

Ruben Buell is CEO of AdShuffle. AdExchanger.com: How has AdShuffle evolved since its inception?  What opportunities is AdShuffle seeing today that it didn’t see when AdShuffle began in 2005? RB: AdShuffle started out as a real-time ad serving solution for publishers in 2005 and has grown into a fully integrated real-time advertiser and publisher solution […]

This post follows up on an article this week by MediaWeek’s Mike Shields in regards to concerns publishers have about agency demand-side platforms (DSPs). Read the article. In the article, Shields said that Rubicon Project met with some of these publishers. A Rubicon Project spokesperson provided the following responses. AdExchanger.com: Did Rubicon Project meet with […]

By John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchanger.com. For starters, if I were a publisher these days, I’d become a buyer. I’m not exactly sure how this happens. What should publishers buy, after all? But, publishers need to jump into the weeds and close their gap of understanding when it comes to the rapid innovation occurring on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Portals, Publishers and Networks, Oh My! Citing three years of data that include more than 4,800 marketing campaigns collected by WPP’s Dynamic Logic, The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel delivers the details on a new OPA study which says that large publisher’s premium (i.e. […]

John Trimble is CRO of Pandora, an internet radio service. AdExchanger.com: How important is display advertising to Pandora‘s overall revenue model? JT: We are genuinely in a unique position in the marketplace based on our ability to bring brands a digital multi-platform adverting solution with display, mobile and audio. The success of our display has […]

Mike Lewis is President and Co-Founder of Ad-Juster, an ad server discrepancy management company. As you have said in your release, Ad-Juster looks to solve “two of the digital ad industries major pain points: 3rd party reporting and discrepancy identification.” Can you share momentum you have seen with Ad-Juster’s product in 2009? And, who needs […]

Yesterday’s OMMA Publish conference in New York City was at full capacity as publishers came to swap stories and look for solutions in a down economy. One panel, ably moderated by MediaPost‘s Joe Mandese, struck at one of the core bones of contention: how to deal with ad networks. The panel, with the linkbait title, […]

David Koretz is CEO of BlueTie, Inc., an email and collaboration services provider and Adventive, Inc., an online ad solutions company. What media-related trends have you observed in 2009 at BlueTie and at Adventive? Vertical strengths/weaknesses, pricing pressure, etc.? At Adventive we are seeing large publishers put an increased emphasis on creating unique products for […]

Tuesday was OMMA’s NYC version of its Metrics and Measurement conference. Like Digiday on the previous day, this was another sold-out conference – and not just filled with vendors either. In the OMMA crowd were company managers looking to better harness the mountains of data that increasingly makes their jobs one of the most challenging […]

AdExchanger.com: How important is the display segment to Forbes? Can you share recent momentum in online display ad revenue at Forbes?  Any verticals showing particular strength or weakness given the economic slump? JS: Display is very important to our business model.  Of late the recession has taken a toll and we are not seeing the same type […]

In a memorable clip from 1977 film classic Annie Hall, a young Jeff Goldblum says his one and only line into the phone, “Hello? I lost my mantra.” Transporting ahead Star Trek-style to 2009, publishers struggle with their mantra saying, “Hello? I lost my CPMs.” Demand-side voice, Rob Griffin of Media Contacts – makers of […]

Expanding its toolkit for publishers, Contextweb announced today that it will make available in-text ads for publishers on the Adsdaq exchange beginning March 31. Leveraging its contextual technology, Contextweb will enter the same space which Vibrant Media and Kontera have dominated in the recent past in a battle-contextual-royale. Contextweb’s Jay Sears explains how in-text ads […]

From Today’s AdAge article, “Media Giants Want to Top Google Results” by Nat Ives: “You should not have a system,” one content executive said, “where those who are essentially parasites off the true producers of content benefit disproportionately.” Load the cannons! Kiss the loved ones goodbye! This is WAR! Premium publisher titans undoubtedly led by […]

Today’s Media Post reports that yield optimizer, Pubmatic, led by CEO Rajeev Goel, is providing new tools to large publishers which he says already comprises 80% of the inventory among the 5,500 Pubmatic publishers. From Media Post’s Mark Walsh: PubMatic Premiere is aimed at publishers with more than $5 million in annual online revenue, and […]

The Online Publishers Association has nobly decided to help the world of display advertising by introducing three, online display ad sizes. Each new ad unit will be implemented and sold only through participating publishers’ direct sales teams later this year. Implicit is that ad networks and exchanges will not be selling these units. Yeah, right. […]

Amidst the mayhem of the current AdMonsters Publisher Forum in New Orleans which brings together ad operations professionals and their ad technology vendors comes news! AdMeld, led by CEO Michael Barrett and founders Ben Barokas and Brian Adams, has released a new tool for client publishers. AdMeld‘s FireMeld enables the ad operations team of web […]

There should be more to this announcement, no? There is a hint of a new, Google ad exchange strategy involving AdSense if we are to believe David Rosenblatt, Google’s president of display advertising, during his IAB keynote. David Kaplan of PaidContent.org wrote yesterday: Google’s approach: The ad exchange extends the AdSense marketplace. It’s neutral and […]

Data exchanges offer publishers, who are sweating bullets over 2009 revenue targets, an opportunity to create a new source of revenue as they are able to leverage their valuable user base and resell anonymous cookie data that advertisers can serve against. In yesterday’s MediaPost, CEO Mark Zagorski, from Israeli-based behavioral targeting data exchange, eXelate, exhorted […]

During today’s conference call, A.H. Belo Corporation (AHC) which closed at a precarious $1.81 per share today and better known as owners of major regional and local newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, reported that they have integrated their newspaper sites fully onto Yahoo!’s APT platform and are realizing revenue.  Unfortunately, it’s not enough […]

Publishers of large, “premium” content websites are starting to wonder: “How are we going to survive? Are we ever going to make the CPMs, revenues and margins that we’re used to?” Today, tons of advertising inventory is going unsold and being allocated to ad exchanges and networks. And, the advertisers with budgets are eating up […]

Industry trade group, Online Publishers Association (OPA), has discovered that media is more effective on premium content sites than on auto-generated, splogs created in Ukraine. But, wait. There’s more! In today’s MediaPost, Gavin O’Malley speaks with Pam Horan, president of the OPA, about the second of two studies funded by OPA using Dynamic Logic MarketNorms […]

On Tuesday, ThinkPanmure analysts Bill Morrison and Robert Coolbrith hosted an investor call with Frank Addante, CEO, The Rubicon Project. The Rubicon Project goal is to optimize ad network and ad exchange relationships for web publishers and increase their effective CPM for remnant display advertising – or “make mad cash” as Rubicon likes to say. […]

Joe Mullin, a reporter for IP Law & Business, has provided insight on his blog regarding a patent violation lawsuit that is making its way through the courts and affects many of the larger advertising technology companies including Yahoo (ad exchange Right Media’s owner), Google (DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange), ContextWeb (ADSDAQ), and Specific Media. The gyst […]