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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Social Network Ad Spend Emarketer gives its latest prediction about social network ad spend: “By 2013, non-US revenues [for social networks] will make up 51.9% of the total, which will hit nearly $10 billion worldwide. In the US, social networks will make $4.81 billion […]

With the iPad’s strong growth and now the recent announcement by Amazon to provide a lower-end, $199 Kindle Fire tablet, marketers may need to start thinking about how the tablet – and its audience – fits in their plans going forward. With that in mind, AdExchanger.com asked a group of industry experts from the mobile […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Steve Jobs Dies Yesterday, Apple announced that its co-Founder and long-time CEO, Steve Jobs, had passed away from cancer after battling it for years. The New York Times’ John Markoff says Jobs “helped usher in the era of personal computers and then did nothing […]

Yesterday, media company Federated Media announced the acquisition of Boulder, Colorado-based ad network and publisher technology company Lijit. Federated CEO Deanna Brown offered in a release, “Our combined relationships, proprietary tools and conversational marketing services will be invaluable to publishers and advertisers alike.” Read it. Lijit CEO Todd Vernon and COO Walter Knapp will become […]

Aol and VivaKi announced a new partnership which will look to unearth new formats for online video advertising and will be part of VivaKi’s “The Pool” initiative. Read the release. Erin Clift, SVP of Branded Experiences at Aol, discussed the deal as well as her own role that addresses both marketer and agency constituencies. AdExchanger.com: […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital Grows In The UK The UK IAB unit reports that growth in digital ad spend remains strong in the first half of 2011. From the release: “Boosted by sophisticated new formats and 100% growth of online video, display advertising grew by 18.5% year […]

Bryan Jones is CEO of Collider Media, a provider of targeting technology for mobile advertising. AdExchanger.com: Can you share a bit of background on you and how you got involved in Collider Media? BJ: Sure.  I’ve been in mobile for about 4 years now, having been a corporate attorney before that.  It’s been an exciting […]

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Yesterday, 41st Parameter, a fraud detection services company for financial, retail and travel industries, announced a new product called AdTruth focused on device fingerprinting technology and audience recognition. Read the release on the company joining the IAB yesterday (PDF). Ori Eisen is Founder, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer of 41st Parameter. AdExchanger.com: What inspired 41st […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Let’s Make Video Ads: Part I Aol and Publicis’ VivaKi unit announced a new partnership which looks to leverage VivaKi’s The Pool initiative. The companies agreed to test three, new video ad models in the coming months including: “A pre-roll overlay within a video […]

Today, PubMatic announced that Kirk McDonald (LinkedIn), who was President, Digital of Time Inc, has joined the company as its President. Read the release. McDonald discussed his new role and the larger publisher landscape with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com:  Why is PubMatic the right next step for you? KM: Here’s the truth. I believe that the industry […]

The highly-anticipated announcement by Yahoo! this morning has come and gone – there’s still no official word on the Aol, Yahoo! and Microsoft agreement to sell each other’s data-driven, non-guaranteed inventory through still-undisclosed methods. But, Yahoo! did announce that it’s going to go beyond its current, video news distribution deal with ABC News and leverage […]

Amit Kumar is CEO of Lexity (formerly known as “Vurve”). In a press release last week, in addition to its name change, the company launched its “‘Ad Intent’ system for e-commerce merchants of all sizes.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com: So, what was the original idea Vurve? And then what did you learn along the way […]

Former AudienceScience executive Jeff Hirsch has announced that he is joining Santa Barbara, California-based Underdog Media as its CEO. Hirsch discussed his new role and his new company’s future plans with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Please share some details about the new role.  Why make the move? JH: It’s time for me to get back to basics […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Engagement With Facebook Ads Facebook ad lovers, prick up your ears. Ad Age’s Cotton Delo peels away the skin on Facebook’s newest ad unit and its “Insights” tool. Delo writes, “The new ads resemble sponsored stories and are constructed around engagement with a piece […]

Murthy Nukala is CEO of Adchemy, an online advertising technology company specializing in search engine marketing tools for advertisers. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Nukala to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Adchemy today. AdExchanger.com: What would you […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yieldex Collecting Predictive-analytics-for-a-guaranteed-inventory-world company, Yieldex, announced new funding and investors yesterday as Triangle Peak Partners (also in Marin and Tremor) and Hearst Interactive Media anted up along with existing investors to the tune of $10 million. CEO Andy Nibley says little in the release […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Buying Display Ad Futures Claiming an industry first, isocket says that it is launching a programmatic platform for the purchase of guaranteed display ad inventory (isocket calls this “Class 1”). How can they make such a bold claim? isocket already had the guaranteed display […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics. The comparison of “analog dollars” to “digital dimes” is often an attempt to explain that paltry digital revenue is coming from […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Algo Alert, Algo Alert, Algo Alert Cross Pixel Media CEO Alan Pearlstein sees trouble in the algo as he offers a few cautionary tales about the false promise of the algorithm by some. He writes, “Some of these companies actually resort to shady tactics […]

Last week, Datran Media and CONTEXTWEB agreed to merge their companies into PulsePoint, which describes itself as an “integrated digital media technology platform.” Read the release announcing the merger. Patrick Vogt, Executive Chairman, and Tim Murray, CEO, of PulsePoint discussed the merger and the future for the new company. AdExchanger.com: What was the trigger for […]

On Sunday, Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank announced their intention to combine their efforts as providers of back office systems that manage transactions across digital and traditional media buying channels. Read more. AdExchanger.com asked a selection of executives regarding their “take” on the proposed merger pending regulatory approval. Click below or scroll down for more: […]

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel reported that Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank have decided to merge into a new company called MediaOcean, as the new company looks to create what it calls an operating system for advertising while it looks to stave off formidable competition from Google. Read more on AdExchanger.com. The […]

Former Yahoo! and Right Media Exchange executive Ramsey McGrory has re-emerged since his departure only a couple of weeks ago to become the new CEO of Clearspring, a web content sharing tools and ad targeting data provider. Read the release. The company’s former CEO and founder, Hooman Radfar, will become Executive Chairman at the company. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DataXu Adds Social DataXu made its own announcement regarding a social solution (DX Social) using demand-side platform tech. DataXu stresses its cross-platform capabilities and says on its blog, that “DX Social creates and uses consumer behavioral insights from a marketer’s investments in other channels […]

For years, the television world has pivoted on the use of a reach and frequency metric known as the Gross Rating Point, a.k.a. the GRP (Wikipedia), for the buying of advertising time. As TRAFFIQ’s Eric Picard points out in a 2009 iMedia Connection article, “This currency  enables immense substitutability of inventory, meaning that there is […]

Neil Capel is CEO and co-founder of SailThru, an email delivery platform. AdExchanger.com: What is the biggest misconception right now regarding email advertising campaigns? NC: The first thing that pops into my mind is that Ecommerce people realize the more email they send, the more revenues they can make. But at the same time they […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The CEO Role PaidContent’s Staci Kramer covers the latest machinations at Yahoo! as Interim CEO Tim Morse (who had been, and still is, the company’s CFO) issued an email meant to rally the Yahoo! troops. Kramer writes, “Probably the most striking aspect of Morse’s […]