Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adobe Reports Adobe reported its fiscal first quarter earnings for 2012 (ended March 2, 2012) yesterday. The results met analyst expectations as the release stated: “Revenue in Q1 FY2012 was $1.045 billion, which included $9.6 million of revenue from the acquisition of Efficient Frontier […]
Amit Avner is CEO and Co-Founder of Taykey, an online advertising technology company focused on the social advertising space. Avner, who last spoke to AdExchanger in 2010, recently discussed industry trends and the latest with his company. Click below or scroll for more: Today’s Industry Trends Social And Success Metrics Clients & What Taykey Does […]
George John is CEO of Rocket Fuel, an online advertising technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with John to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Rocket Fuel today. Click below or scroll down for more: RTB Impact On Display […]
Ronald Paul is CEO of QUISMA, a European performance marketing agency and a subsidiary of WPP Group’s GroupM. AdExchanger: How do you define a performance marketing agency today? RP: Whereas performance marketing was once a single online marketing channel, with brands only paying for leads or sales generated via advertising on third party publishers’ sites, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Exponential Sees $176 Mil In 2011 Revs It’s the next phase of the ad network model. Exponential Interactive, owners of Tribal Fusion – Firefly Video and Adotube – have moved into the IPO phase as the company as it looks to raise funds in […]
“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. In order for audience-based buying to move forward, digital advertisers need to break free from the offline media shackles that come with demographic buying. Audience-based buying is […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AMY Update On The Microsoft Advertising blog, Senior Director, Display Marketplaces Daniel Sheinberg says the Aol-Microsoft-Yahoo! (AMY, YAM, MYA – you decide) agreement to sell each other’s non-guaranteed display inventory is now “live.” Sheinberg writes, “Starting this week, the Microsoft Media Network, AOL’s Advertising.com […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Frank Addante is founder and CEO of The Rubicon Project, a digital advertising infrastructure company. The hot topic in digital advertising today is real-time ad buying. Even for a fast-evolving industry, it felt like real-time ad […]
Publisher ad server. Advertiser ad server. Does it really matter any more? As ad servers on both sides of the digital media aisle look to buy and sell, ad serving capabilities would, in theory, appear to be on the verge of merging – especially as demand-side platforms, sell-side platforms and exchanges take over the delivery […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RMX “For Sale” Rumor On All Things D, Kara Swisher’s sources are telling her a sale of Right Media Exchange may be imminent. Swisher writes, “The most ideal plan, said sources, would be to sell Yahoo’s whole advertising technology ‘stack,’ including the Right Media […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is the second of a two-part series and written by Esco Strong, Director, Exchange Marketplace Management at Microsoft. You can read Part I here. In the first part of this series, I highlighted the common industry definitions of “Private […]
Adelphic Mobile announced the launch of its company and its “Predictive Data Platform” which it says features AudienceCube, “a new targeting technology that leverages data predictive of campaign performance to find and engage mobile audiences.” Read the release. Co-Founders Changfeng Weng and Jennifer Lum, whose mobile ad experience includes Apple iAd, Quattro Wireless, Nokia, Enpocket […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Patent Fighting Jeff Roberts covers the patent Yahoo!’s patent lawsuit on paidContent and breaks out the 10 patents here. Meanwhile, patent fight broke out into the blogosphere yesterday – mostly against Yahoo!. VC Fred Wilson said, “I am not writing this in defense of […]
The Apple product development machine continues to produce new instrumentation for the hungry, digital hoards as last week’s announcement of its third-generation iPad appeared as anticipated as any of its iPad predecessors. Though not revolutionary given the presence of the first two, the new iPad may present unique opportunity to various parts of the digital […]
Prashant Mehta is CEO of Komli Media, an Asia Pacific media technology company with products across display, mobile, video, social, search and data. Click below or scroll for more: Background Komli’s Geographic Focus India’s Similarities to the U.S. Market Exchanges and RTB in India Revenue Momentum at Komli Milestones Ahead AdExchanger: You have some familiar […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mining The Data The Wall Street Journal covers a new loyalty program from Sears called “Shop Your Way Rewards” which essentially re-targets online shoppers in-store (you know, offline) and “promises customers generous freebies for repeat purchases, as long as they agree to share personal […]
The recent merger of Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank into Mediaocean promises to usher in a long-awaited era of simplified, seamless workflow processes into media buying methods that have remained pretty much the same for decades. The deal, estimated at $1.5 billion, was struck last fall but took about six months for a regulatory review […]
Ilya Lichtenstein is Co-Founder of Mixrank, an online advertising, competitive data and analytics company. Lichtenstein discussed his company’s offering last week with AdExchanger as well as today’s release of a new API (read more) designed to “enable any enterprise customer complete access to our entire dataset of historical data going back nine months or so […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Standards For Mobile Display Mobile Marketing Association chief Greg Stuart discusses the new standardization efforts (known as “The Universal Mobile Ad Package”) going on within his industry organization – a process with which he’s familiar from his past experience at the IAB. In an […]
“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Elizabeth Zalman is co-Founder at Media Armor, a mobile advertising technology company. “The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.” – Winston Churchill Mobile display advertising has yet to achieve the gains made by Online. A brief […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic Adds To Mobility PubMatic announced the acquisition of MobiPrimo as the company looks to bolster its efforts in mobile in the sell-side platform (SSP) space. The release states, “The transaction will allow PubMatic’s mobile platform to integrate directly with the leading mobile networks, […]
Gazehawk‘s founders are moving on to Facebook. The company’s technology was recently featured at the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting for the insights its tech provides into the performance of creative – specifically its heat mapping technology to measure users’ visual engagement with ads. The company’s founder Joe Gershonson and Brian Krausz announced the news on […]
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 or topic – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is Jeff Green is Founder and CEO of The Trade Desk, a demand-side platform technology company. He […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. How Do I Subscribe? The online subscription model has moved beyond movies and Netflix as companies BirchBox, PetFlow and Dollar Shave Club (no, really) are aggregating consumers around particular interests. Former AzoogleAds guy and current PetFlow CEO Alex Zhardanovsky tells The NY Times, “This […]
Mark Zagorski is CEO of eXelate, a data marketing technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with Zagorski to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of eXelate today. Click below or scroll down for more: eXelate Data Exchange Update On RTB […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Ads at $1 Bil? According to an anonymous source, The Business Insider’s Henry Blodget hears that Amazon is trucking along at an ad run rate of $1 billion a year and is providing a serious challenge to Google in that regard. Blodget makes […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is the first of a two-part series and written by Esco Strong, Director, Exchange Marketplace Management at Microsoft Even if you’re but a casual follower of the digital display advertising space, one such option and term you’ve no doubt […]
“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 Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund, a venture investment firm, and Tim Hanlon, CEO, Vertere Group, a consulting group. The brand ad market is massive (multi-multi $B), with […]
