Pat Connolly is Head of Strategy, Conde Nast Ideactive, an agency unit within publisher Condé Nast. Connolly discussed his views on industry trends recently with AdExchanger.com. Click below or scroll for more: Programmatic Buying and ‘Always On’ Success Metrics for Branded Content On Marrying Offline/Online, Print/Digital What’s Hot AdExchanger: How is programmatic buying affecting your […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Verification Funds AdSafe Media announced yesterday it has taken a new round of funding to the tune of $10 million. That brings the company’s total raise to $17.25 million according to Crunchbase. The release states that “the funding will be used to further […]
Display failed to close the gap with search in 2011, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s full-year ad spending report, released today (full report). Both categories grew dramatically during the year, but search spending clearly has the bigger head of steam, says the IAB and research partner PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC estimates search revenues totaled $14.8 billion […]
Depending who you ask, momentum for an online GRP measurement standard is either the best answer the online video business has to unlocking billions of TV ad dollars or it’s a menacing hand from the past come to smother web video metrics in the cradle. The latest major player, and first publisher of size, to […]
Google has upped the ante in display ad measurement with products in two categories that appear to be gaining traction with large brand advertisers. The new technologies enable campaign reporting based on “viewable” impressions and GRPs, and are baked into DoubleClick’s ad management suite as part of a new product initiative called Brand Activate. The […]
Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an ad technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with Tawakol late last month to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of BlueKai today. Click below or scroll for more: BlueKai In The Past Year […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. View The Ads Say Media is going right for the gut of “viewable impressions” as the company announced a “cost per exposure” (CPX says Say) model on its company blog. This would appear to be the equivalent of a CPM buy above-the-fold – except […]
Yahoo! reported its first quarter 2012 earnings today and results looked good as the company beat Wall Street estimates by about $60 million according to Reuters. From the release, “Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,077 million for the first quarter of 2012, a 1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2011. […]
“The Video Audience” is a column written by members of the media community and focused on the evolving world of online video advertising. Today’s column is written by Harvey Kent, Chief Media Strategist, MediaOcean, an advertising technology company. The way things stand today, the video business isn’t one business, but two separate businesses evolving in […]
At a time when data and technology are an integral part of the advertising/marketing chain, the concept of the traditional ad holding company is changing. Once thought of as mere tools to be accessed on an ad hoc basis, data and tech are now central to the process of media buying and planning. That was […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online GRP Momentum Aol is looking to satisfy brand marketers who want their GRP offline – and online, too. In a press release, Aol announced that it “will leverage Nielsen Online Campaign RatingsTM reach, frequency and gross rating point (GRP) measurement to determine how […]
Jerry Neumann is a partner in Neu Venture Capital, a New York City-based seed-stage investor group with investments in 33Across, Metamarkets, PerformLine, The Trade Desk, Optim.al, Media Armor, and Yieldbot among others. Jokes all start with one of a few stock set-ups. “A man walked into a bar.” But the punchlines are all different. VC […]
Vivaki’s Nerve Center may have been the brainchild of Curt Hecht, but Kurt Unkel has done as much as anyone to help make it a reality. Unkel, who has worked for Hecht for more than a decade, will now run Publicis’s automated media buying unit as president in the wake of his boss’s departure for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Real World Bidding Trading desk Accordant Media says that on behalf of marketers it’s taking its real-time bidding for display offering to new heights by adding “real world bidding” capabilities to its platform. The release explains, “Accordant can set specific creative messages and bidding […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMind, 24/7 Deal On ClickZ, Susan Kuchinskas reports that WPP’s 24/7 and MediaMind have inked a new partnership which could mean convergence is ever-closer as data-driven, addressable media comes to TV. Kuchinskas quotes DG MediaMind SVP Andrew Bloom who “said that MediaMind and 24/7 […]
Google’s average click costs slipped further in the first quarter (see the release), continuing a decline that has pleased advertisers and alarmed some investors. Aggregate paid clicks, including both on Google’s sites and its network partners, grew 39 percent over Q1 2011 and 7 percent over the previous quarter. As it did, average cost-per-click fell […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. In-Store Ad Network Digital-out-of-home ad network for your mobile phone? PointInside calls it a private mobile ad network – nSide – and it rides inside a retailer app – another, potential “showrooming” weapon for offline retailers. GigaOm’s Ryan Kim explains, nSide technology enables “users […]
Today, MDC Partners’ The Media Kitchen hosted its 5th Annual Digital Media Venture Capital Conference in New York City. In advance of the event, The Media Kitchen/kbs+p’s venture empresario, Darren Herman, outlined the agenda on his personal blog here. Leading off, ubiquitous banker-about-town and LUMA Partners’ Terence Kawaja provided three things that gets him jazzed […]
“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Chris Tuleya, vp of Direct Response at Underscore Marketing, a boutique, digital marketing agency. Everyone who works in our industry has been in this situation before; you get a call from the client/agency/boss that they want your big ideas. And let […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Re-Org On All Things D, Kara Swisher shares a new memo sent by Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson to Yahoos worldwide. The company’s being grouped into three silos – Consumer, Regions and Technology. Read it. Even Right Media Exchange makes an appearance in the […]
Considering that it’s preparing for what may be the most hugely anticipated IPO in a decade, Facebook shook off its “quiet period” shackles and announced the acquisition of photo-sharing application Instagram for $1 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said from his Facebook profile: “This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $1 Billion In Cash “Hey look at you, Aol. Flush with $1 billion in cash… Gonna buy something?” Yesterday, Aol’s cash balance just got a whole lot fatter (and so did the company’s stock) as Aol announced the sale of “800 patents related to […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Schmults, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Intent Media, an online ad platform for ecommerce publishers. “Intent Marketing” – matching offers (and a little later in history, ads) to the […]
It is with great pleasure that I’d like to announce Zach Rodgers as the new Managing Editor of AdExchanger. Zach hails from Incisive Media’s ClickZ, a top trade publication in the space, where he was also Managing Editor. I couldn’t ask for better as Zach’s experience, skills and integrity are a perfect fit for AdExchanger. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Evaluating Ad Tech Sensing a need on the client and agency sides to crowdsource opinion on the latest digital tech, MediaPost’s Laurie Sullivan covers the creation of the DMR Index (see the site), which Sullivan writes “will help to connect clients with the best […]
Oren Netzer is CEO of DoubleVerify, an ad verification company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with Netzer last month to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of DoubleVerify today. Click below or scroll for more: Positioning And Ad Verification What Pre-Bid […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Huffington Ascending Aol The New York Times’ Brian Stetler says that Huffington Post growth is changing the strategy and direct report structure of the company as it looks to return to startup mentality according to Huff Po’s Arianna Huffington. The Times’s Stetler writes, “The […]
