Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ebay Looking For Recommendations In an effort to apparently maximize yield for its digital shelf space, Ebay is buying Chris Dixon’s Hunch – or so says indefatigable blogger Mike Arrington who estimates the prices at around $80 million and adds, “The Hunch recommendation technology […]
Mark Rabe is CEO of Sojern, a travel data and media company with exclusive partnerships with several major airlines. Adexchanger.com: So, in some ways, are you building an Orbitz competitor with Sojern? MR: The answer is no. We are partnered with our airline partners – and it’s the majority of the large domestic airlines, who […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Ad Metrics Rob Hof provides an in-depth article on Facebook advertising in the December 5 issue of Forbes. Display ad success metrics, the click and other industry analytics pain points make an appearance as Hof writes that Facebook is trying to find a […]
Bill Duggan is Group Executive Vice President at the Association of National Advertisers, a trade association for the marketer and which “leads the marketing community by providing its members insights, collaboration, and advocacy.” Duggan discussed the trade group’s latest whitepaper (read the release) which reviews on behalf of marketers the agency trading desk model. Download […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. 24/7 RTB 24/7 announced that its Open AdStream ad platform is now real-time bidding(RTB)-enabled. The company claims that differentiation from other SSPs and ad exchanges includes “a single decision engine” and “instead of integrations between multiple systems, the experience for the users viewing the […]
Curt Hecht is CEO of VivaKi Nerve Center, part of agency holding company Publicis. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Hecht to discuss the Nerve Center, his views on the space, and the state of VivaKi Nerve Center today. Click below or scroll down for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Getting Strategic With Video YuMe has received a cool, strategic $12 million investment from a group that includes Samsung Ventures among others as YuMe appears to be clearly warming to the role of solutions provider for the connected TV future – in addition to […]
Richard Harris is Co-Founder and CEO of Intent Media, an online ad platform for ecommerce publishers. AdExchanger.com: First, can you share a little bit about your background and how you arrived at deciding to launch Intent Media? RH: My background is – having been a retailer for a long time – I was part of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Or IPO The Business Insider drank from the rumor cauldron (or something like that) yesterday and said that Amazon may want to acquire sell-side platform PubMatic. TBI’s Nicholas Carlson quotes a source and writes, “This source said a Pubmatic executive and another plugged-in […]
Joel Jones has been announced as VP, Americas Ad Marketplaces at Yahoo! which includes responsibilities as the new head of Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange in North America. Jones spoke to AdExchanger.com during last week’s ad:tech event about RMX and its latest developments. AdExchanger.com: Can you share a little background on you and your new role? […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Video Is H-O-T Hot hot hot… Video DSP and analytics firm TubeMogul says pre-roll is “catching up” with online display ads in terms of inventory with real-time bidding attributes. See the graphic. According to a company blog post, “In the past five months, pre-roll […]
Joe Zawadzki is CEO of MediaMath, a demand-side platform technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Zawadzki to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of MediaMath today. Click below or scroll down for more: Today’s M&A The Past Year […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeters Banned! Schwaaa? All Things D’s Peter Kafka says that retargeters are banned on Yahoo!: “People familiar with Yahoo say that this week it told at least three retargeting companies — Criteo, TellApart, and ValueClick’s Dotomi — that it would stop selling them its […]
Good times were had by all at the AppNexus Summit in NYC today, as AppNexus gathered Yahoo!, Microsoft and Aol together for a little chat about their, potentially, big deal that will allow each of the three, huge publishers to sell each other’s “premium,” non-guaranteed, display inventory. (Tuesday’s press release here.) Participants for the panel […]
Yesterday, Yahoo!, Aol and Microsoft announced that they were going to sell each other’s “premium” non-guaranteed display inventory through Microsoft Exchange (supported by AppNexus) and Right Media Exchange. From the release, RTB will be a part of the mix: “By integrating one another’s real-time bidding (RTB) technologies to facilitate the availability of nonreserved inventory by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DG Reports, New CEO DG, owners of MediaMind, Unicast, Eyewonder and more, reported its third-quarter financials yesterday saying it had $84.6 million of revenues and a GAAP net loss of $4.1 million and said, “The Online Segment generated revenue of $24.0 million, an increase […]
David Norris is CEO of BlueCava, a device ID technology company. The company recently announced $9.5 million in additionial venture funding. Read more. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Norris to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of BlueCava today. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pooling Inventory ClickZ’s Zach Rodgers sees challenges for the new Yahoo!/Aol/Microsoft coalition with operations, data ownership and “a third danger is that the integration could remove the differentiating audience characteristics of the companies’ three ad network products: Yahoo’s Network Plus, AOL’s Advertising.com, and the […]
It’s only been 60 or so days since All Things D’s Peter Kafka broke the story, but Microsoft, Yahoo! and Aol made it official in a press release: “The agreements will allow ad networks operated by Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL to offer each other’s premium nonreserved online display inventory to their respective advertising customers.” And […]
Today’s mega-retailers sit in a unique position that will prove a critical element to media online and off. They have a store at the corner. Many corners. And that’s because – news flash – humans aren’t going all-digital with an I.V. into a data warehouse. Though we may spend endless hours in our Facebook world […]
John Squire is Chief Strategy Officer of Coremetrics, an IBM company. He discussed his company’s new enterprise analytics product and digital data exchange as well as marketing challenges with data today. Click below or scroll down for more: Unica and Coremetrics Where SPSS Fits The Digital Data Exchange Agencies and IBM AdExchanger.com: Can you talk […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Nisenholtz Exits NY Times NY Times Company digital ops chief Martin Nisenholtz announced he is retiring after leading the publisher into the digital age beginning in 1995. According to paidContent’s Staci Kramer, Nisenholtz will not be replaced and his duties will be absorbed by […]
It’s easy. It’s hard. It’s complex. It’s too complex. Opinions vary widely on the platform buying capabilities available to the demand-side as it looks to exploit opportunity in the data-driven ad ecosystem. AdExchanger.com asked a selection of demand-side executives to share how they think platform buying is performing today. Specifically, the question is: “What’s the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Groupon Has $700 Million Groupon finally went public on Friday effectively putting an end to stories about Groupon trying to go public. Read about it. In the process, the IPO gates may not have swung wide open for advertising-related tech startups, but the gates […]
On Tuesday, sharing data company Clearspring announced the acquisition of Xgraph, a “data science company focused on modeling and monetizing the web-wide social graph.” Read the release. Clearspring CEO Ramsey McGrory discussed the acquisition and its implications. AdExchanger.com: Why was this be the right time to buy XGraph? What was going on at Clearspring that […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Valueclick Making Cash What’s happening with media? Watch Valueclick. First some data – online media and advertising tech company Valueclick reported Q3 2011 earnings largely in line with Wall Street expectations as the company earned a fat $37.9 million in profit on $137 million […]
