Ad verification company, AdSafe Media, announced a $7.5 million Series B round of financing led by Atlas Venture and includes existing investors Founder Collective among others. The funds will be used in part to roll out products Network Monitor 2.0 and Content Rating API. Read more in the release. Co-Founder and CRO Kent Wakeford discussed […]
Click Forensics announced that today that it has closed a “$6 million Series C funding round led by Austin Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and Shasta Ventures.” Read the release. Click Forensics CEO Paul Pellman discussed the company’s strategy going forward. AdExchanger.com: With the $6 million, what can you share about what you’ll do […]
Attitudinal targeting ad network Resonate Networks has announced a $5 million series A round of financing led by Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital. Read the release. Resonate Networks CEO Bryan Gernert discussed his company’s new funding and the data-driven advertising landscape. How is the funding environment today in ad tech? Is data resonating? While venture […]
Data exchange eXelate announced that it’s putting the power in the hands of publishers by allowing them to create “stand-alone, exclusive, transparent data exchanges” for advertisers and agencies. Through eXelate, publishers control who gets access to its data according to the release. Read it. eXelate CRO Mark Zagorski discussed the announcement. AdExchanger.com: Please define what […]
Magnetic CEO Josh Shatkin-Margolis discussed the company’s $4 million in Series A funding led by Charles River Ventures, Ron Conway and NYC Investment Fund bringing total investment to-date to $5.25 million. According to the release, existing investors Founder Collective and IA Capital Partners also participated. Link to release coming. How will Magnetic use the $4 […]
B2B data provider Bizo announced that it was partnering with BlueKai and making Bizo’s B2B data available through BlueKai’s exchange. Read the release. Bizo CEO Russell Glass discussed the deal and its implications. AdExchanger.com: What does this partnership say about the data business model as a whole? RG: Industry leaders are specializing on their core […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rubicon Project On Profit, People According to CEO Frank Addante from his Founders blog, sell-side optimizer Rubicon Project is going to start focusing on profitability. He writes, “We are on track to do $100M+ in revenue this year, and with discipline, will reach profitability […]
Tim Schigel is CEO of ShareThis, makers of web content sharing solutions. AdExchanger.com: What problem is ShareThis solving? Reaching over 400 million consumers and helping them share their favorite content on 800,000 sites, ShareThis helps publishers and marketers to understand and tap into the real value of sharing. Critical to this value is the idea […]
BlueKai announced the roll-out of a white-label version of its consumer data registry that may be used by publishers as “an out-of-the-box solution for supporting transparent consumer data collection.” Read the release. BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol discussed the white-label registry. AdExchanger.com: Why is white-label important as opposed to a branded offering? OT: Many sites do […]
Amit Kanigsberg. CTO & Co-founder of Peerset, psychographic ad targeting technology company, discussed the advertising landscape and Peerset’s positioning with AdExchanger.com recently. AdExchanger.com: Given Peerset’s reliance on social data, how does the privacy debate and regulatory moves impact your business and others in social media? I think we’re in a good position to weather any […]
Magnetic has announced partnerships with a number of ad networks that it says will result in giving “advertisers and agencies search re-targeting capabilities for every campaign, using search data as the key indicator of intent to find customers in purchase mode…” Read the release. Josh Shatkin-Margolis, CEO of search data exchange Magnetic, discussed the announcement […]
Brad Terrell is VP and general manager of digital media at Netezza, a data warehouse and analytic appliances company. He recently discussed his company’s client momentum in the digital media space including their ongoing deal with Acxiom (PDF). AdExchanger.com: Can you quantify the scope of working with Acxiom either in dollars or by number of […]
Audience management company, Demdex, announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A financing in a round led by Shasta Ventures and also inclusive of existing investors First Round Capital and Genacast Ventures. Read the release. CEO Randy Nicolau discussed the new financing and the company’s plans. AdExchanger.com: From your perspective, what is the […]
Aggregate Knowledge announced that it has adopted “BlueKai‘s new server-to-server data transfer technology, which greatly increases the efficiencies in which BlueKai data is transferred and delivered for ad campaign targeting and optimization within the AK Discovery Platform.” Read more. Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, an audience management and real-time ad optimization platform, […]
Sam Cox is CEO of Milabra, an advertising targeting technology company based on visual or image-based content. How did Milabra begin? Milabra the company was founded in October 2008 with the mission to bring a visual recognition technology platform to market. However, the Milbra story starts in earlier in 2007 when I met my business […]
Alex Willcock is Founder and CEO of Imagini Holdings Limited, an advertising technology company and makers of VisualDNA. AdExchanger.com: Please give us a bit of history about VisualDNA. A new company? Or pivoting for new opportunity? AW: I founded the business because I saw an opportunity to change the relationship between commerce and consumers – […]
John D. Corbett, PhD is Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of aWhere, which provides an analytics platform focused on location intelligence. AdExchanger.com: Please give us a bit of history about aWhere. A new company? Or pivoting for new opportunity? aWhere is a ten year old company that has historically focused on the agribusiness and […]
ClickForensics released a new quarterly report which looked at fraudulent activity related to user clicks and digital advertising. Read the release. And, download the report (PDF). ClickForensics CEO Paul Pellman discussed the report, its findings and methodology. AdExchanger.com: Why do you think social networks have a lower average click fraud rate than other CPC traffic […]
Walter Knapp is COO of Lijit Networks, a search tool proving analytics to publishers and audience targeting to advertisers. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Lijit solving? It appears to be a couple of problems potentially. WK: You’re right there are really two problems that Lijit solves. The first is for publishers. If you think about it, […]
Josh Shatkin-Margolis is CEO of Magnetic, a search retargeting technology company. AdExchanger.com: You touched on it in our interview around your recent funding. What problem is Magnetic looking to solve? Targeting advertisements to visitors of websites without direct knowledge of user intent is difficult. Many targeting and data companies lack transparency in customer segmentation. To […]
BlueKai released its latest Pulse Index with particular focus around car buyers and insights such as “the appearance of Kia and Hyundai in the Top 20 Car Models may indicate a shift in intent towards more ‘value’ -focused brands. “. Download the Pulse Index (PDF). And, read the release. BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol discussed the […]
Search retargeting technology company, Magnetic, announced the company’s launch and $1.25 million in funding which includes a roster of investors such as NYC Seed and IA Capital Partners. Read the release. Josh Shatkin-Margolis, CEO of Magnetic, discussed the new funding and the company’s strategy. Magnetic (originally Domdex) has been stealth for a while now. Why? […]
eXelate announced a new partnership with Nielsen which will enable its PRIZM (and P$YCLE and ConneXions) offline segmentation through eXelate’s online data exchange for digital marketers. Read the release. eXelate’s CRO Mark Zagorski discussed the impact of offline data in the online world and its integration into eXelate’s data exchange business model. AdExchanger.com: What makes […]
Quantcast announced yesterday that they are offering their traffic data and audience insights globally by local country. CEO Konrad Feldman discussed the company’s global push. AdExchanger.com: How did you determine that Quantcast is the “World’s Favorite Audience Measurement Solution”? KF: Every week thousands of websites choose Quantcast to provide them with audience measurement and insights. […]
TARGUSinfo and Demdex announced a partnership which integrates TARGUSinfo datasets into Demdex’s “‘Behavioral Bank’ [which is] full of robust user profiles with data captured from each client’s Web properties and third-party data purchases.” Read more. Dave Helmreich, VP AdAdvisor at TARGUSinfo, discussed the partnership, the company and trends in the data market today. AdExchanger.com: Why […]
B2B ad targeting data company, Bizo, announced a partnership with online ad network Martini Media, which targets high net worth consumers. Bizo will provide its B2B data segments to the ad network. Read the release. Bizo CEO Russell Glass discussed the new Martini Media partnership and its implications with AdExchanger.com. Martini Media would appear to […]
Quantcast announced a recent deal with MTV Networks in which Quantcast will offer “audience targeting capabilities on sites in MTVN’s domestic online portfolio, including MTV.com, VH1.com, ComedyCentral.com and Spike.com, as well as on partner sites in the company’s Tribes vertical ad network.” Read the release. Quantcast CRO Todd Teresi discussed the announcement and its cross-channel, […]
In a release yesterday, Digital Element announced that it would begin offering postcode-level (“zip code” in the U.S.) targeting capabilities. (See the release.) Digital Element’s Vice President Frank Bobo discussed the implication of European expansion and the market for IP targeting. AdExchanger.com: Can you help us with the jargon? What does the phrase “postcode-level database” […]
Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai, discussed today’s announcement regarding a new $21 million round of funding (Read the release.) with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Obviously, this is a big round. What plans can you share regarding future areas of investment at BlueKai and where this round will be funneled? OT: One area in particular will get a […]
