It’s been more than two years since Jim Spanfeller left his post heading Forbes.com to create the Spanfeller Media Group, a content network that includes foodie site The Daily Meal and, more recently, sporting enthusiast site The Active Times. Spanfeller is well-known for his view that publishers have mistakenly tended to outsource much of their ad sales to ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shopper Marketing Shopper Marketing has attracted yet another investment. Rich Relevance said that it has raised $20 million in funds as startups try to build out and ride the eCommerce wave. Read the release. Ecommerce companies, which are sometimes the digital offshoots of brick-and-mortar […]
It’s still early in the online advertising “app” model business, but the reasoning for it is clear from a platform’s perspective. The more app companies that you have building products for your platform, the more robust and differentiated your platform becomes -which presumably leads to rising demand and, best of all, makes your platform that […]
Is hyperlocal inventory getting easier to come by? The rate of smartphone ownership in the U.S. (106 million as of March, by comScore’s count) suggests yes, but many say it’s still tough to amass significant reach for highly geotargeted campaigns. AdExchanger tapped several companies that are focused on this problem to answer the question, “What […]
Andy Lerner is CEO of Trust Metrics, an online advertising analytics and tools company. He discussed with AdExchanger where his company fits in the online ad ecosystem as advertisers and publishers look to understand more about the context of ad placements and the opportunities they can afford. Can you talk a little bit about the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! CEO Drama The “are you kidding me?” drama continues to unfold at Yahoo! around the details of CEO Scott Thompson’s bio. He evidently claimed a computer science degree that he didn’t have and this may bring down his short reign as CEO according […]
Discovery Communications has explored web video here and there over the past few years as a promotional vehicle for its various cable TV networks, which include its flagship, TLC and Animal Planet. Online advertising has tended to be a secondary focus, with TV naturally being front and center. Online video programming producer Revision3 CEO Jim […]
On Wednesday, IBM continued its quest to build out an enterprise marketing system in support of the CMO by acquiring Tealeaf, an Internet and mobile commerce analytics firm. Read the release. Jay Henderson, Strategy Director of IBM Digital Marketing, discussed the acquisition and its implications with AdExchanger. AdExchanger: What does the Tealeaf acquisition by IMB […]
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; […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Linking-In Presentations Yesterday, LinkedIn announced the acquisition of SlideShare, a popular, shareable, slide presentation site for nearly $120 million. Linkedin CEO Jeff Weiner says in a release, “These presentations also enable professionals to discover new connections and gain the insights they need to become […]
“Upfront” presentations are intended to get advertisers to spend money on networks’ programming, but YouTube parent Google will be the initial big marketer on the video site’s new content channels. At the company’s big “Brandcast” event, the search giant pledged $200 million in advertising across YouTube and the Google Display Network to promote the video […]
No one is talking, and perhaps because no one is there. Epic Media Group’s management page within its “About Us” section is showing a “404 file not found.” Visit the site map and click “management” (Updated 5/4 – looks like the “Management” link was removed – but Google’s cache shows the link). Coincidentally, an Adknowledge […]
Every month seems to bring a new company bent on cracking the code of mobile advertising. One of these is ThinkNear, which aims to bring elusive scale to hyperlocal ads. In this discussion with AdExchanger, CEO Eli Portnoy talks about the company’s value proposition and challenges it has faced. AdExchanger: What problem is ThinkNear solving? EP: […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IBM Adds Another CMO Arrow Adding another arrow to its CMO quiver, IBM announced the acquisition of Internet and mobile commerce analytics firm Tealeaf. Clearly, IBM can’t get enough of understanding of behaviors online as it adds Tealeaf to previous, related acquisitions such as […]
Ad network ValueClick got a significant boost from two major acquisitions last year, which gave the company the wherewithal to pay down a large chunk of debt. But beyond that, the still thriving display market is what continued to lift the Westlake Village, CA.-based company, as revenues jumped 31 percent to $152.9 million, the company […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Engaging With Facebook Ads Buddy Media acquired social ads company Brighter Option at the end of February (AdExchanger Q&A) and already the newly-acquired company is part of a major product launch. Inside Facebook’s Brittany Darwell covers the new Facebook API-infused ad plaform dubbed “BuyBuddy”: […]
MediaMath has become the first demand side platform to spin off an agency from its core software business. With the creation of Kepler Group, the marketplace gets a new services provider for programmatic media buying – one that will work directly with high-touch brands. The new firm launches in the U.S. with nine clients, including […]
Pepsi’s new global campaign, “Live for Now,” is all about immediacy, or as its creators would have it, “the excitement of now.” So it seems fitting that the effort’s main digital ingredient is a cascade of recent Pepsi-themed tweets, brand-created content, and miscellaneous scraps of trending content. For now this interactive experience, known as Pepsi […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Mario Diez is CEO of quadrantONE, a joint venture of Tribune Company, Gannett, Hearst and The New York Times Company, which offers exclusive ad inventory on news and information sites across U.S. local […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Great White Private Exchange Canadian media companies CBC/Radio-Canada, Rogers Media and Shaw Media announced that they’ll partner on a private exchange for their non-guaranteed, display ad inventory. Known as CPAX – or Canadian Premium Audience Exchange for long – the new exchange will be […]
As advertisers increasingly turn to audience buying, social media, and other methods of aligning with content that allows them to bypass traditional publishers directly, those outlets need to find ways to maintain their relationship to readers and ad dollars. Last week, The New York Times Company unveiled new tools that support its online content by […]
Pure-play firms reign supreme in a new Forrester evaluation of attribution vendors, released this morning. After ranking eight vendors – a blend of specialized firms and large analytics companies with attribution on the menu – the researcher placed the one-note singers at the front of the choir. All five specialists – Visual iQ, Adometry, ClearSaleing, […]
Mike Cassidy is CEO of Undertone, an advertising technology and services company. Cassidy recently spoke to AdExchanger about his company and industry trends. Click below or scroll for more: Is Undertone An Ad Network? The Agency Client and Blurring Lines Programmatic Buying’s Effect On Building “The Stack” Momentum and Milestones AdExchanger.com: People think of Undertone […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No Talent The WSJ’s Ben Rooney reports on the emergence of companies looking to corral ‘big data’ and how there’s a shortage of big data worker bees let alone scientists. Admirably, Rooney provides his definition of ‘big data’ in the piece: “Big Data refers […]
At X+1’s Nextargeting Summit last Thursday, the advertising technology company produced a half-day long event that spoke to how the programmatic buying business is becoming an “enterprise” class challenge especially when you look at it from the big, brand marketer’s perspective. As part of the Summit’s “Process and Organization” track, Deloitte’s Ed See (who is […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Big Data, Big Funds In a November 2011 interview with AdExchanger, former Metamarkets CEO David Soloff described his company’s focus: “We deliver visibility into high volume, and high velocity datasets from data-heavy, platform businesses – and, in particular – online advertising which has these […]
Original online video has been the primary focus of this week’s NewFront, the series of events by AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Hulu under the umbrella of the annual presentation organized by Publicis Groupe’s Digitas for the past five years with an eye towards capturing marketers attention on behalf of interactive advertising. But the big question hanging […]
Last week, JWT announced it would rebrand its Minneapolis office to become part of Digitaria’s growing network. The Minneapolis outpost is a dedicated digital operation with clients including UnitedHealth Group. San Diego-based Digitaria was founded as a digital design firm in 1997 but has extended to website development, search, analytics, and even digital product invention […]
