Maria Alegre is CEO and co-Founder of Chartboost, a direct-deals marketplace for mobile game publishers. Click below or scroll for more: The Background The Problem Chartboost Solves Use Cases for Chartboost Industry Trends iOS or Android – Which Is Best? AdExchanger: Can you share a brief background on Chartboost? MA: Sure, our team comes from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Graphics Nothing better than some good ol’ eMarketer graphics for your PPT. How about one showing how Google and Facebook are moving into the display advertising lead? Get it here. eMarketer admitted being too high with previous estimates as Facebook’s S-1 statement gave […]
Wilson Raj is SAS Global Customer Intelligence Director. Yesterday, SAS acquired publisher ad server aiMatch. Terms were not disclosed. Read the release -and industry reaction. Raj discussed SAS’s acquisition of aiMatch yesterday and its implications with AdExchanger. AdExchanger: What is the opportunity that SAS sees in advertising and marketing, in general? Wilson Raj: The CMO […]
Yesterday, SAS acquired publisher ad server aiMatch for an undisclosed sum. According to the release, “SAS’ advanced analytics combined with aiMatch’s technology will provide publishers with an end-to-end solution to help manage, forecast, optimize and measure ad inventory to maximize ad revenue”. Read more. AdExchanger reached out to executives in the industry for their “take” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Overcoming Auto-Play SpotXchange announced that among the attributes it will provide RTB bidders in its video ad exchange is the ability to understand whether a video ad is “auto-play” on a page or not. One of the complaints from advertisers is that their video […]
With the recent announcement by The Wall Street Journal and others that Google had bypassed the privacy settings on Apple’s Safari web browser, it raises the question, what would Apple co-founder Steve Jobs say about all this? STEVE: Hi, everybody. First, let me say, I’ve got a new company cookin’ here in the afterlife and […]
Yaron Galai is CEO of Outbrain, a content discovery technology company. Click below or scroll for more: Outbrain and Content Marketing The Publisher’s RSS Feed Problem That Outbrain Solves Use Case On Links And Engagement Metrics Target Market and Market Size The Future AdExchanger: Can you talk a little bit about the company’s momentum? And… […]
The following is from Rachel Whetstone, SVP of Communications and Policy at Google and is in response to today’s claim by Microsoft that Google had bypassed IE privacy settings. Microsoft omitted important information from its blog post today. Microsoft uses a “self-declaration” protocol (known as “P3P”) dating from 2002 under which Microsoft asks websites […]
Gordon Meyer is CEO and David Dowhan is President of TruSignal, an online advertising targeting company. TruSignal is a sister company to eBureau, from which it was spun out in January. Read the release. AdExchanger: When was it that you recognized that eBureau needed to add something that focused on digital media? GORDON MEYER: It […]
“the creative” is a column focused on the creative side of digital marketing. Stephen P. Williams has worked as a copywriter, long-form writer and author for a wide variety of creative agencies, like Rokkan, RAPP and Co:Collective. He’s written a dozen books, as a ghostwriter and author, and his articles have appeared in The New […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Shoots Goose The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that “Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended […]
Dennis Mortensen is CEO of Visual Revenue, a predictive analytics company for online publishing. AdExchanger: What has been the big highlight for Visual Revenue in the past year? DM: We haven’t pivoted into anything else so the vision with which we set up the company a year ago is exactly the same today. In the […]
Recently, GroupM Search made available a new, 8-page white paper titled, “Perception vs. Execution: Examination of Brands’ Local Business Strategies Reveals Gaps to Act On.” The agency says that its “a gap in what national advertisers perceive they’re doing in the local digital space and what they’re actually doing.” GroupM says that local digital spending […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Showrooming Wars Here’s an interesting twist to “Showrooming” which has recently come to light as brick-and-mortar retailers have tired of potential customers viewing products in-store and buying elsewhere – usually via online retailers. Retailigence says in a press release that it wants to help […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DG’s MediaMind Future Convergence is coming – or is it just plain ol’ digital? HD ad prices have dropped a lot more than many have expected according to Wall Street analysts on DG’s earnings call yesterday. HD ads are a key part of DG’s […]
Micah Adler is CEO of Fiksu, a mobile marketing technology company. Click below or scroll for more: The History The Problem Being Solved Fiksu’s Platform Mobile Display Trends Demand-Side Platform in Mobile Milestones Ahead AdExchanger: How did Fiksu get its start? MA: Going back about six and a half years now, I was a full‑time […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Haircut For iAd In Ad Age, Kunur Patel writes that the iAd costs are being slashed again – now you can have your very own iAd running through the iPhone and Ipad for the starting cost of $100,000 – was $1 million. Patel adds, […]
As part of Social Media Week festivities in NYC, Microsoft Advertising announced what it’s calling “People Powered Stories.” Formally launching next month, the offering will begin by incorporating social commerce tech from Bazaarvoice and is the first step in Microsoft’s social display strategy. Microsoft Advertising GM of Display Advertising Experiences, Jennifer Creegan said on the […]
Alex Moukas is CEO of Velti, a global provider of mobile marketing and advertising technology. Velti announced the acquisition of CASEE, a mobile ad exchange and mobile ad network in China, last month as the company expanded its footprint in China. Read the release. In January, Moukas discussed his company and trends in the mobile […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tags M&A StreamingMedia.com’s Dan Rayburn hears that Akamai is closing in on its very own tag management company. Rayburn writes, “Over the past two months, Akamai’s been on a buying spree and it sounds like it may not be over. After agreeing to buy […]
Two weeks ago, media outlets reported new comScore data showing Facebook’s continued growth resulting in the delivery of nearly 28% of U.S. display advertising impressions – far outpacing others such as Yahoo! and Google, according to comScore. In the past, AdExchanger has reviewed the difference between a social display and “regular” display impression in the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. More Money For Mobile Mobile ad technology company Media Armor says that it has raised $1.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Geoff Judge of iNovia Capital and Ian Sigalow of Greycroft Partners. On the company blog, co-founder Elizabeth Zalman […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Testing, Gathering New “Nielsen-like” panel efforts are being made by Google as the company introduced Screenwise which will be run by GfK’s Knowledge Networks. Google may be taking a deeper dive into attribution modeling and/or media mix modeling as, according to ClickZ’s Kate […]
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, a local, online advertising technology company. Wong discussed his company’s growth and offering with AdExchanger including trends he’s seeing in the local advertising marketplace. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the trends you’re seeing today which you didn’t expect when you started the company? When we first started the company, […]
Given that “food” is one of the top ad spending categories in the lifestyle space, it makes sense that the largely female-focused blog network Glam Media would build out a vertical devoted to that subject. But unlike the other recent expansions of Glam’s content and related ad offerings around health and wellness, the Foodie channel […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tom Shields, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Yieldex, an analytics tools provider for sell-side, yield optimization. Selling digital used to be easy: how big is the budget, and do they want the News section, or […]
