Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Reports, Invests Another day, another earnings report as Amazon.com said that it earned $9.91 billion in revenues and $191 million in profits for Q2 2011. Bloomberg says both numbers beat Wall Street analyst predictions as the company’s e-book reader (Kindle) and “digital media […]
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 George John is CEO of Rocket Fuel, Inc., an online advertising network. He recently answered the […]
Adobe recently announced its enterprise content management system, known as Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP), which offers a series of integrated solutions (Customer Experience Solutions) across digital channels. Read the release. Loni Kao, Group Manager of Solution Marketing, Digital Enterprise, Adobe, discussed the announcement and its implications. AdExchanger.com: Do you see a fit between the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aol Reorgs Sales All Things D’s Peter Kafka reports that Jeff Levick is out and Ed Brody is in for the top sales role at Aol. Kafka writes, “Unlike the last round of body-moving at AOL, this one doesn’t seem to be prompted by […]
Affectiva, a Waltham, Massachussetts-based company which “provides tools for measuring emotion with electrodermal testing & face expression recognition,” recently announced a new round of funding with investors that include WPP Group’s Kantar unit and Myrian Capital. Read the release. Affectiva’s tech grew out of research from the MIT Media Lab. Dave Berman, CEO of Affectiva, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DSP MediaMath Adds Funds Edmund Lee covers demand-side platform MediaMath’s new funding on Ad Age. He also notes it’s not all IAB display for MediaMath’s buying channels, “The company also offers buying on Facebook through a partnership with Clickable and Spruce Media, though MediaMath […]
Forrester Research recently published a for-purchase report titled “The State Of The Digital Media Buyer.” Authored by analyst Michael Greene with the help of his research co-horts Emily Riley, Joanna O’Connell, Jennifer Wise and James McDavid, Forrester positions the report as insights for the publisher on what the buyer is up to. Greene discussed the […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Makes Billions More record revenue from a public tech company as Microsoft announced that for Fiscal Q4 2011 it had made “$17.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, an 8% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income […]
What’s this? Have the two rivals made up or established some form of detente? Google now lists Right Media on the approved list for global ad servers through Google Certified Networks. That’s new. And it means that if you’re using Right Media to serve your display ads or serve ads on behalf of clients, you […]
Today, as part of its Universal Audience Platform (UAP), NBC Universal announced the launch of its private exchange for digital, display media. From the release: “Powered by technology from Admeld, the UAP’s private exchange enables NBC Universal to monetize their ad inventory in a controlled, Real Time Bidding (RTB) environment.” Read the release. Peter Naylor […]
Phil Cowlishaw is Performance Media Director at Sydney, Australia-based media agency Ikon Communications. Among his duties, he is responsible for the launch and build out of Ikon’s performance based media strategies such as the agency’s trading desk. AdExchanger.com: What do you see as the major difference between Australia and the US when it comes to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon The Media Company Amazon.com announced a deal with CBS to offer some of its “PRIME” customers access to CBS video. Ad networks are becoming media companies (such as Specific Media which purchased Myspace) and now retailers are appear to becoming media companies. Well, […]
With all the talk about brand dollars moving online, what is it that everybody is tracking for brand marketers? -especially in the growing automated buying environment online. With this challenge in mind, AdExchanger.com asked a range of representatives on the tech and services side of the digital ad ecosystem the following question: “What are two […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Agency Seeing Growth Agency holding company Omnicom reported its earnings and “net income for the second quarter of 2011 increased 13.1% to $275.1 million from $243.3 million in the second quarter of 2010.” Read the release. Reuters reports, “All advertising groups have been lifted […]
Yahoo! reported its Q2 2011 earnings today and said that revenue after traffic acquisition costs (revenue ex-TAC) was $1.07 billion – a 5% decrease from 2010’s Q2. Also, “Income from operations increased 9 percent to $191 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared to $175 million in the second quarter of 2010.” Read the […]
John Mracek is CEO of NetSeer, a contextual ad technology company whose products include media buying services and a contextual links ad network. NetSeer has had $14.4 million in investment to date from Mission Ventures and Onset Ventures. How has the company’s overall strategic plan evolved since last we spoke in December of 2009? JM: […]
Matt Isaacs is founding partner of Essence, an independent, global digital agency based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: Please share a brief background on your agency. MI: We’re six years old and have served many of the leading Internet companies, originally, on a UK basis, and then on a pan‑European basis, and now for some […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Friction In The System Looking at what it calls the “Massive Proliferation in Display Delivery Chain,” investment bank Jordan-Edmiston Group (JEGI) has produced a new flow chart for its clients showing which it says shows the friction being introduced in today’s display and in […]
One of the complaints about Facebook advertising has been the inability to sync any advertiser’s ad campaign efforts with other, non-Facebook, cookie-based efforts. In other words, if you’re a brand marketer looking to raise awareness for a particular product, you’ll need to use Facebook (FB) advertising’s own metrics – which could include anything from demographic […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Former Omniture CEO Tackling Data Check it out. Former Omniture CEO Josh James – looking snazzy – announced the launch of his new company, Domo Technologies, on Wednesday. The company originates from his acquisition of a company called Corda in May – a purchase […]
Google released second quarter 2011 earnings today as the company made tons of cash: “GAAP operating income in the second quarter of 2011 was $2.88 billion, or 32% of revenues.” And a new record of $9 billion in revenue in the quarter. Read the release. And, get the earnings slides (PDF). Google AdSense saw 20% […]
David Gwozdz is CEO of Mojiva Inc, a company whose products include the Mojiva mobile ad network and Mocean ad serving company. AdExchanger.com: In regards to your company’s recent funding, can you talk a little bit more about what that $25 million is going for – sales and marketing? DG: Originally, we had sales and […]
The research team at ZenithOptimedia reported yesterday that “total internet ad spend to grow 12.6%, 15.8% and 16.1% in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The brightest spot in terms of online ad growth will be online video.” Read more on Radio & Television Business Report. Jonathan Barnard, Head of Forecasting at Publicis’ ZenithOptimedia, discussed the latest […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lifting Attribution Targeted challenges with display advertising, comScore announced its continuing to enhance the company’s attribution products/methodologies with the introduction of the “Smart Lift Attribution Model.” comScore’s VP of Ad Effectiveness, Anne Hunter, claims on the comScore blog, the new product “overcomes the issue […]
Ed Busby is Partner at Boston Consulting Group. He is finishing up a study on data strategy in the digital media space and presented some his findings at the BlueKai Summit in New York City. AdExchanger.com: How do you break the data ecosystem down -and in layman’s terms? EB: We think about the various services […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo!’s Like Button It’s an ad network. It’s content. It’s both! Looking to leverage its content trove, The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! will roll-out a new content network plan that may be Yahoo!’s version of the Facebook “Like” button. Amir Efrati writes, […]
Todd Simon is Managing Director, Head of Digital Media at Oppenheimer & Co., an investment banking company. Simon is also on the Strategy Board of sell-side platform Rubicon Project. AdExchanger.com: Given your background in investment banking, what is your take on today’s M&A climate in the ad technology space? TS: We expect a robust M&A […]
