Commerce

Facebook’s Exchange is in full swing outside the U.S. Speaking at the AppNexus Summit in New York this week, Facebook VP global partnerships Blake Chandlee noted FBX buyers can now access audiences in the Asia-Pacific region and in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A spokesperson later confirmed the expansion and said Facebook is actively […]

There’s a demonstrated link between foul weather and e-commerce revenue. Storms bring more shopping activity, higher order volume, and higher value per order.  They also create a data retargeting opportunity, as website visits increase. But when the weather turns from unpleasant to destructive – as it did with “Superstorm” Sandy this week – that link […]

Google is poised to shake up e-commerce to an even greater degree as the company merges its paid Product Listing Ads and its “free” shopping-related results into a single paid format. The process started in the U.S. two months ago and is expected to be completed by the beginning of October, with Asia and Europe […]

E-commerce has become much more mainstream in the last two years. And yet, no one company, except for Amazon or perhaps Apple, appears to be notably dominant. Earlier this week, WPP’s GroupM Next released a survey of 1,000 users that showed 45 percent of customers shopping in-store at brick and mortar locations will walk out […]

On its earnings call last month, eBay said its mobile transactions will double this year, to $10 billion – a big number that includes mobile commerce spending for both eBay and PayPal during 2012. “The share of mobile transactions as a percent of our total is growing dramatically,” CFO Robert Swan told analysts. Given this […]

Boring? Maybe, but email remains a powerful channel for online retailers. As a means to reactivate latent customers and shopping cart abandoners, it’s hard to argue display, affiliate, or even search is more effective. But the bar is getting higher in the space, thanks in part to Amazon’s email retargeting platform.  Enter Listrak, whose Lifecycle […]

It’s no surprise that retargeting specialist Criteo believes in the value of clicks — that’s the stock in trade. For many traditional marketers and advertisers, there is the view that online advertising is a venue for low-cost, direct response advertising — as opposed to the lucrative, more creative brand marketing campaigns for traditional media. The […]

Since its was acquired by eBay just over a year ago, mobile and local ad net Where Ads has been busy integrating with its parent’s sprawling platforms. It’s a big job with a big potential payoff. In addition to eBay itself, those platforms include PayPal; Milo, which indexes local store inventory; barcode scanning app RedLaser; […]

Jonathan Opdyke is CEO of HookLogic, an eCommerce media company. Opdyke provided an update on HookLogic’s business following the announcement of the hiring of Jeff Griffin as the company’s President of Retail. Read the release. Click below or scroll for more: Trends In Ecommerce Publishing Ecommerce Publishers Add Content Shopper Marketing Phenomenon RTB and HookLogic […]

Randy Smith is President of ClearSaleing, an advertising analytics and attribution management platform company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Smith to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of ClearSaleing today. Click below or scroll down for more: On Being […]

Josh McFarland is CEO of TellApart, an online media buying and data management platform, discussed recent events at his company and his view on digital ads. The company recently raised a $13 million round of funding through Greylock and Bain Capital (read more). AdExchanger.com: Since we last spoke a year ago, are there any new […]

Yesterday, eBay announced the acquisition of eCommerce fulfillment and marketing tech company, GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion. Read more. AdExchanger.com asked the following members of the ad ecosystem: “What is your take on the acquisition of GSI Commerce by eBay?” Click a name or scroll down for more: Jake Bailey, Chief Evangelist, Rich Relevance Rick […]

With $2.4 billion in cash and debt, Ebay clearly stated that they intend to be the player in e-Commerce as they acquired GSI Commerce on Monday. GSI Commerce shareholders are ecstatic. Their stock is worth 50% more than it was on Sunday. From the release, the company states that the “acquisition enhances eBay’s position as […]

Ji Kim is Founder & CEO of DiJiPOP, a digital shopper marketing company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is DiJiPOP solving?  And, please define “digital shelf space.” JK:We help retailers and brands better merchandise and increase sales by applying in-store shopper marketing practices to their online and mobile stores- where consumer go first when they start shopping. […]

Jonathan Opdyke is CEO of HookLogic, an eCommerce media company. AdExchanger.com: Please share a bit of background on you. And, what inspired HookLogic? JO: The co-founders and I met during the dot-com boom at Beyond Interactive, one of the first digital advertising agencies, now part of Mediacom/WPP.  As an Industrial Engineer with a strong background […]

“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s counterpoint column is written by Jacob Ross is Senior Director, Advertising Platforms, Demand Media Big news on both eBay and Microsoft today, and Eric Franchi did a great job of surfacing the importance of the news. However, it’s misleading to compare these two […]

David Brussin is CEO of Monetate, a provider of testing, targeting, and personalization services for websites. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Monetate solving? DB: Monetate is helping companies realize some of the fundamental promises of eCommerce. For years, companies have been hearing about the great potential of agile, focused, one-to-one marketing on the Internet. Yet achieving […]

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 […]

Bob Cell is CEO of MyBuys, a provider of personalization for multi-channel retailers. AdExchanger.com: How was the June 2010 Internet Retailer conference for you and MyBuys? Any overall trends that you sensed? BC: Internet Retailer was a great event for MyBuys .  We had the opportunity to meet with many people, including  potential customers, clients […]

Adgregate Markets announced a new partnership with rich media advertising provider, PointRoll, which will embed Adgregate’s Shop Ads e-commerce technology within PointRoll ads. Read the release. Adgregate Markets CEO Henry Wong discussed the partnership and its attribution capabilities. How does the integration work of Adgregate Markets technology into PointRoll technology? Adgregate’s suite of APIs and […]

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mike Walrath Exits Yahoo! SVP of Ad Strategy, Michael Walrath, left the company yesterday telling the WSJ’s Jessica Vascellaro that “it was the right time to ‘move on in my career’ and that he looks forward to ‘taking some time off and working with […]