Though Yahoo! reported declining revenues of $1.06 billion from a year ago (-6%), the company still met Wall Street expectations earning $190 million for the quarter. Read the earnings release (PDF). And, get the slides (PDF). The company went on to say that revenue is continuing to take a hit from the search partnership with […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” John Montgomery is COO, North America of GroupM Interaction, a WPP Company. “This is a beta program running across a few verticals. Google appears to be pursuing the […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” Curt Hecht, CEO of VivaKi Nerve Center, a Publicis company “VivaKi has been advocating a reserved marketplace with Google dating back to our original partnership announcement in 2008. […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” Elizabeth Blair, CEO, Brand.net “My take is it is fantastic and about time. Brand advertisers’ needs haven’t changed. Their requests for brand-focused online advertising technology and services haven’t […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MarketShare Predicting For Ticketmaster Analytics company MarketShare (AdExchanger.com Q&A) has announced a deal with Live Nation-owned Ticketmaster that will enable the ticket seller to better predict and price tickets for events. According to the release, “Ticketmaster has been actively working with four professional sports […]
Google SVP of ads Susan Wojcicki announced the launch in Q1 of Google Display Network Reserve on last Thursday’s Google Q1 2011 earnings call. The new initiative enables media buyers to acquire display ad inventory in the future, also known as “guaranteed” buying. Read more from the call here. A Google “spokesperson” provided the following […]
Bruce Falck has joined Google’s demand-side platform Invite Media and will be leading the charge for sales as the unit’s sales director. It’s a role much like others across Google’s corporate structure of ad tech products such as DoubleClick Ad Exchange (where Lexi Reese and Michael Rubenstein had a similar role devoted to the Exchange.). […]
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 Scott Knoll, President, Datran Media’s Aperture business. He recently answered the following question during a conversation with AdExchanger.com… […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adweek Re-Launches Three brands for the price of one – Adweek is relaunching this week by folding its Mediaweek and Brandweek brands into the flagship publication. According to the WSJ, “[Adweek editor Michael] Wolff said he thinks the new Adweek will have ‘more high-value […]
At this week’s ad:tech trade show and conference, Experian Marketing Services announced that media buying platform Turn will help power display ad buying for Experian’s AudienceIQ platform. According to the release, “Audience IQ enables advertisers to potentially access offline direct marketing data from almost every U.S. household” which can be used to address audiences online. […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cadreon Turning Into TAP In a press release, IPG’s Mediabrands announced a strategy shift as Mediabrands will realign its operating units formerly under Mediabrands Ventures. In addition, Mediabrands announced the development of the next phase of Cadreon called “TAP,” which is described as “The […]
Today, Google reported its Q1 2011 earnings and though Wall Street may have been disappointed as GOOG stock fell 5%, the company still reported $8.08 in earnings per share (or $2.3 billion in profit!). Revenues were up 27% to $8.58 billion in Q1. Read the release. And, get the earnings slides (PDF). The company’s earnings […]
At ad:tech in San Francisco, Aol svp of publisher services, Dave Jacobs, discussed Advertising.com and Aol’s ad strategy with AdExchanger.com. At the show, Aol’s ADTECH unit announced ADTECH Lite “an ad management platform now available to small publishers and advertisers at no cost, reaffirming ADTECH’s commitment to help start-up and small businesses compete and grow […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online Ads Up; Performance Reigns The IAB has released new U.S. online ad spending statistics for the full year and Q4 of 2010 and PaidContent’s David Kaplan notes how quickly online ad biz appears to be growing in comparison to the rest of the […]
Josh Resnik is VP/GM of Gannett Digital Network, a group of Gannett owned-and-operated websites. He discussed his network of site’s recent redesign and its impact on digital advertising strategy with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Why move towards the OPA ad units, the bigger ad units? Are there any pitfalls to that strategy that you need to look […]
Elizabeth Zalman is co-founder of Media Armor, a mobile advertising analytics company. AdExchanger.com: Please talk a little bit about your background and how you all came up with the idea for Media Armor? EZ: My career began at Dotomi, where I led the adoption of RTB and associated real-time consumer valuation as part of the Media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Senators Present Privacy Bill U.S. Senators John Kerry and John McCain announced their plans for a privacy bill. ClickZ’s Kate Kaye provides an overview of “The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011” which she says addresses both online and offline data privacy. […]
James Walker is CEO and Dave Zinman is COO of Inadco, a cost-per-lead, display advertising platform company. Today, the company announced Zinman’s hiring. Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to the Inadco executives yesterday. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a little bit about why you’ve decided to become more public about Inadco now? JAMES WALKER: The problems […]
Steve Latham is CEO of Encore Media Metrics, an attribution technology company. AdExchanger.com: So, you started the company through selling your agency, correct? SL: Yes, we are using proceeds from the sale of my agency, Spur Interactive, to fund the launch and growth of Encore Media Metrics. While we don’t need to raise additional capital, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SearchIgnite Is Now IgnitionOne Looking to move beyond its search-focused roots and capture a broader group of buyers, Dentsu’s SearchIgnite has renamed itself as “IgnitionOne” and combined SearchIgnite’s performance marketing tech with Netmining’s “on-site optimization and real-time audience scoring capabilities” according to a release. […]
Hey, what’s this…? Looks like Amazon has started retargeting as last week’s news from analyst Ben Schachter of Macquerie Research (via GigaOm) may just be a hint at what’s happening inside the e-commerce giant. After visiting a few tech news sites where I’ve found many retargeting ads in the past, I visited 9 to 5 […]
Ad tech angel investor (33Across, Flurry, Magnetic, Metamarkets, PerformLine, The Trade Desk, XA.net, and Yieldbot among others) Jerry Neumann recently spoke to AdExchanger.com about his views of the digital advertising ecosystem today. Click below or keep scrolling to read his answers… What is missing in the digital ad ecosystem today? Is there room for more […]
Last Thursday, personalized ad technology company Criteo announced that it had hired former Huffington Post CRO, Aol and Yahoo! exec, Greg Coleman, to be its president. Read the release (PDF). Coleman spoke about the opportunity ahead with Criteo and his own recent experience in the online ad space. Click below or scroll for more: In […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Data Supply Chain And The FTC The former director of the Consumer Protection Bureau at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lydia Parnes, talks to BostInnovation.com about her time at the FTC. She offers recommendations to startups saying that they should think “about online […]
On Friday, UK-based video search engine and ad network Blinkx purchased U.S.-based ad network Burst Media for $30 million in cash and stock. According to the release, “The combination of the two companies will bring Blinkx’s 35 million hours of online video and TV to Burst’s audience of over 130 million unique users (source: comScore […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. EU Privacy Icon Industry groups in the European Union are adopting a behavioral icon similar to the U.S. in advance of coming behavioral advertising regulation in May. ClickZ’s Jack Marshall writes, “Designed to give European consumers choice around how their data is collected and […]
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 […]
