Yesterday, media measurement firm comScore acquired ad verification firm AdXpose (formerly mPire) for $22 million. Read more. Anne Hunter, VP, Ad Effectiveness at comScore, discussed the acquisition and its implications. AdExchanger.com: This is a relatively small acquisition in terms of dollars. Why not build out versus buy AdXpose? AH: The products available via comScore AdEffx […]
On Wednesday, ShareThis announced that former Google AdSense exec Kurt Abrahamson (and most recently CEO of SocialMedia.com which was sold to LivingSocial) would be taking over as CEO and former CEO Tim Schigel would become chairman of ShareThis’ board. Read more on the ShareThis blog. Abrahamson discussed his new role and the opportunity ahead for […]
Ed Busby is Partner at Boston Consulting Group. He is finishing up a study on data strategy in the digital media space and presented some his findings at the BlueKai Summit in New York City. AdExchanger.com: How do you break the data ecosystem down -and in layman’s terms? EB: We think about the various services […]
With the demand-side platform (DSP) model continuing to propagate, data sellers and data management providers are seeing up-close how the DSP is applying data to the targeting of users in display, mobile and video ad inventory today. From their data-centric point-of-view, AdExchanger.com wanted to know… how is the DSP model doing? In particular, we asked […]
Auren Hoffman is CEO of Rapleaf, a data company. AdExchanger.com: It’s been an interesting past year for Rapleaf, to say the least, regarding the company’s strategy and online privacy. What have you learned? AH: We definitely had our time in the spotlight and the publicity has been a factor in our fast growth in 2011. […]
Last week, ad network ad summos announced an agreement with automotive data company, Polk. According to the release, “With access to Polk’s vehicle make and model data, ad summos is able to determine the vehicle purchasing and ownership behaviors of individuals served online display ads.” Read the release. Polk’s Andrew Price, who is VP of […]
Duncan McCall is CEO & Co-Founder of PlaceIQ, a location-based data provider. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a little about how your experience “fed” the idea for PlaceIQ? DM: I have always had a passion for the location space. I have travelled to many interesting places and many years ago went through the experience of downloading […]
Magnetic CEO Josh Shatkin-Margolis spoke to AdExchanger.com recently about his company and the search retargeting data space. Click below or scroll down to read more: The Company’s Evolution Data Marketplace Observations Target Market How Does Magnetic Handle Creative Future Product Development Comparing Financial Markets To Ad Marketplaces The Privacy Debate AdExchanger.com: Since we spoke a […]
Today, data marketplace and management company eXelate announced its new DataLinX platform which the company says “enables publishers and data owners to not only manage access to their data through a system of configurable ‘plugs’, but also helps reduce the website impact of pixels by monitoring site latency and leveraging ‘pixeless’ integrations which create connections […]
Industry sources – and now Ebay itself – confirm that the online marketplace is pulling its intent data which had been for sale through many of the ecosystem’s online ad data targeting providers. In response to a query regarding whether Ebay pulled their data, Ebay spokesperson Johnna Hoff tells AdExchanger.com: “eBay has always been an […]
