The marketer speaks. And, this time it’s Verizon’s Patrick McLean at today’s NexTargeting event sponsored by at [x+1] in New York City. McLean, who leads Verizon Interactive, which is the digital marketing arm of Verizon, discussed how his marketing group is driving into the digital, data-driven future as well as scrambling over and around his […]
Layton Han is CEO of Adara Media, a provider of online solutions for loyalty programs. AdExchanger.com: How has your experience as founder of MyPoints.com informed your work as CEO of Adara Media? LH: MyPoints was a loyalty program leveraging data to provide highly effective advertising solutions to retailers. Using this data to provide relevant offers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Marin Gets $16 Million Marin Software (AdExchanger.com Q&A), whose roots in the search engine marketing platform world, announced that it has raised $16 million in Series E financing from Crosslink Capital among others. That brings the company to a total raise of about $50 […]
Ad network Rocket Fuel announced that it has raised an additional $6.6 million in funding led by Northgate Capital with participation from existing investors. Total funding to-date is $26.6 million. According to the release, “Rocket Fuel’s Series ‘C’ funding brings its overall corporate valuation to $160 million, and based on its current run‐rate for sales […]
Jason Lynn is Chief Strategy Officer of interclick, an online advertising company. Lynn is responding to Hooman Radfar of Clearspring who authored a One Question piece recently – “What Is The Biggest Misconception About The Use Of Data For Ad Targeting?“… Leaders in the data targeting business uttered a collective ‘Amen’ to Hooman Radfar’s assertion […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Technorati Exchange AppNexus has helped give birth to its second exchange in two weeks (the first being Microsoft’s) as blogosphere aggregator Technorati announced a new, private exchange. AdWeek’s Mike Shields writes, “AppNexus, which provides technology and software to both publishers and advertisers, will […]
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 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Audience Buying Guide Ad Age has released a new “Audience Buying Guide” which offers a boat-load of articles on the data-driven ad world beginning with… Kathryn Koegel’s guide to acronyms here. Ad Age’s Kunur Patel covers the Group buying ecosystem here. Rebecca Lieb looks […]
David Karnstedt is President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, a performance marketing company. Karnstedt discussed his company’s strategy and recent momentum with AdExchanger.com. Click below or scroll down to read more: Today’s Trends On The Industry’s Attribution Challenges EF’s Digital Channels Target Market Clients And First-Party Data Profitability, Funding, Acquisitions Search & Display Misconceptions OBA […]
A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo! announced its new “Search Direct” product which “predicts search results as fast as a person types, character by character, and presents those results” among other features. Read more on the Y! corp blog. Shashi Seth is the SVP of Search products at Yahoo!, Shashi Seth, discussed the implications of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Creates Agencies The growing, Facebook services and agency trend is featured in a piece by The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel and Geoffrey Fowler. Among the companies mentioned are Blinq Media (AdExchanger.com Q&A), Kenshoo (AdExchanger.com Q&A) and Webtrends as Facebook’s opening of its […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $30 Million More For Video Video advertising tech and solutions provider TidalTV – led by Ad.com’s former CEO and co-founder Scott Ferber – announced a healthy, new $30 million round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Comcast Interactive Capital and […]
“The Debate” is a column focused on the current debate around ad targeting and consumer privacy. Today’s article is written by Jeff Hirsch, President and CEO, AudienceScience, an online advertising technology company. I hear and read a lot these days about the democratizing power of the Internet. It’s a great issue. Some pundits say entire […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aol Getting $60 CPMs Digiday’s Brian Morrissey reports from the Digital Publisher Summit in Utah that Aol’s big ads initiative “Project Devil” is running like a bat out of hell and “commanding unheard-of CPMs of $60 and up.” Morrissey finds skeptics in the crowd, […]
Read more on the Microsoft advertising blog, but it’s official as CVP Rik van der Kooi of Microsoft says, “I’m pleased to announce that the Microsoft Advertising Exchange is open for business and that the integration of our ad exchange with the AppNexus real-time bidding (RTB) platform is complete in the U.S.” And, what do […]
Still more curation news in Google Search-land as the company says it’s extending its social search strategy and getting the user to help with better search results through recommendation. What’s the impact on display? More targeting opportunities, perhaps. As has been previously announced, Google will allow users to start blocking results. But in a blog […]
Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a column devoted to an answer to a single question – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is Hooman Radfar, CEO of Clearspring, which provides content sharing platform AddThis. He recently answered the following question during […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aegis’ Trading Desk On the UK’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) site, a new interview is published with Aegis’/iProspect’s Louisa Wong, who heads Aegis UK trading desk strategy. She offers, “A trading desk strategy cannot be prescribed at a local level, the fundamental tactics […]
Collective is back on the acquisition trail and its at least partially paved with video advertising companies as the company follows its Oggifinogi purchase with the acquisition of UK-based, video ad network Web TV Enterprise. Read more on Collective’s site. Collective CEO Joe Apprendi and Web TV Enterprise’s Jamie Estrin discussed the news and its […]
Yesterday, eBay announced the acquisition of eCommerce fulfillment and marketing tech company, GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion. Read more. AdExchanger.com asked the following members of the ad ecosystem: “What is your take on the acquisition of GSI Commerce by eBay?” Click a name or scroll down for more: Jake Bailey, Chief Evangelist, Rich Relevance Rick […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adap.tv Takes In $20 Million TechCrunch reports that Adap.tv has raised another round of financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners to the tune of $20 million after raising $4.5 million in October 2010. That’s $43 million total. It appears the company is full steam […]
With $2.4 billion in cash and debt, Ebay clearly stated that they intend to be the player in e-Commerce as they acquired GSI Commerce on Monday. GSI Commerce shareholders are ecstatic. Their stock is worth 50% more than it was on Sunday. From the release, the company states that the “acquisition enhances eBay’s position as […]
Ari Paparo has moved to real-time ad platform AppNexus to become their senior vice president of product management. According to the release, Paparo “brings over 10 years of experience overseeing the development of the industry’s leading advertising technology platforms at Google, DoubleClick, and Nielsen.” Read it. For more background, read Paparo’s October 2010 AdExchanger.com Q&A. […]
“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 Cynthia Butler, Publisher Integration Engineer at Denver-based, SpotXchange, a video advertising technology company. I’ll give you two differences between display and video advertising: technology and people. Some […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. interclick Plaintiff Drops Claim On Friday, online ad tech company interclick announced that the heat from the so-called “history sniffing” lawsuit may be subsiding. According to a release, “the plaintiff amended her complaint and voluntarily dropped her claim that interclick had violated the Electronic […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IBM Optimizing For The Marketer Here comes Big Blue. IBM announced separate products yesterday targeting the social media and email spaces with Coremetrics Social and Unica Pivotal Veracity Email Optimization Suite intended to provide “marketers real-time data from social media channels,” according to an […]
Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a new column devoted to an answer to a single question – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is Tolman Geffs, Co-President of Jordan, Edmiston Group, which provides investment banking services in the media and information […]
