Nikhil Sethi is Co-Founder of Adapt.ly, a social advertising platform company. AdExchanger.com: What gave you the idea for Adapt.ly? NS: I founded a company while studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University, focused on self-serve direct mail technology, and about 9 months in, I realized I wasn’t focused on the reasons I started […]
Vikram Sharma is CEO of ShopLocal, a multi-channel online services company. AdExchanger.com What problem is ShopLocal solving today? VS: ShopLocal solves the problem of achieving in-store traffic toward key promotions and deals in an age where consumers have multiple options to purchase that don’t require them to actually physically visit their local Walgreens or JCPenney. […]
Last Wednesday, WeShop, a consumer-focused, group buying network currently in private beta announced a $4.25 million Series A round of investment with participation from Jonathan Miller of News Corp, and Martin White, and Carlos Sala, “respectively the former Founder/CEO, and CFO, of Abacus Direct, which was sold to Doubleclick in 2000.” Read more. CEO Antony […]
Rapleaf announced a partnership with NetProspex, as Rapleaf will enhance NetProspex’ marketing contact database with “a social layer of data” with the goal of allowing “B2B marketers to successfully decipher the social demographics of business prospects and customers.” Read the release. Joel Jewitt, Rapleaf’s VP of Business Development, discussed the partnership and B2B social data. […]
Social ad targeting firm, Lotame, named Eric Porres it’s Chief Marketing Officer in a release today. Read it on the Lotame blog. Lotame also announced that it’s paying the piper (ComScore) to be included in the ComScore ad network report as the company looks to position itself against the reach of traditional ad networks. Porres […]
Seth Goldstein is the co-founder and CEO of SocialMedia, a social advertising platform. AdExchanger.com: AdKnowledge acquired SocialMedia.com’s ad network last week as noted here by TechCrunch. Where does this leave SocialMedia.com? We are excited about the transition of our ad network to Adknowledge. This move will allow SocialMedia.com to focus solely on its core business […]
Andy Moeck is CEO of ADISN, a creative optimization technology firm. AdExchanger.com: Why did you start Adisn? AM: We started ADISN because we were tired of seeing ads or having ads served to us with zero relevance to what we were doing and interested in at that time. From that point, we saw a few […]
Eric Wheeler is CEO of 33Across, a social advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Any update you can provide on momentum at 33Across? Hey, what does the name, 33Across, mean anyway? EW: We’re working with a number of major brands and media agencies – The 33Across SocialDNA™ platform enables marketers to identify and anonymously target people with […]
Brian Halligan is CEO of HubSpot, a social marketing optimization company. AdExchanger.com: What are the special concerns that the SMB has when it comes to online marketing that HubSpot solves? BH: SMBs have myriad specific concerns that can be summarized in two general concerns: First, expertise. They know they need to get involved in inbound […]
Andrew Pancer is Chief Operating Officer at Media6Degrees. AdExchanger.com: How would you characterize momentum in 2009 for Media6Degrees? AP: 2009 has been a great year for Media6°! We officially launched our commercial product late last fall and have been able to deliver fantastic results for our marketing partners. An example referenced in Adweek on 6/28/09 […]
