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Jeremy Longinotti is Senior Vice President/General Manager, Audience Targeting, of eBureau, a lead verification and audience targeting solutions company. AdExchanger.com: First, please share a background on the company’s different business units or channels. JL: eBureau has been helping consumer-focused businesses find their next customer since 2004. We provide a powerful suite of predictive analytics and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Right Media Intros Audience Sharing Right Media Exchange announced new features – including audience sharing – at its Right Media forum this week in New York City. From the Right Media blog, Ramsey McGrory, VP & Head of Right Media says, “Audience Sharing provides […]

TRAFFIQ announced yesterday the addition of real-time bidding capabilities to its platform and the launch of TRAFFIQ Trading Desk which “gives advertisers the ability to buy into the majority of exchange inventory across the web.” Read the release. TRAFFIQ Chief Product Officer Eric Picard discussed the new trading desk and its features. AdExchanger.com: Now that […]

Amit Avner is CEO of Taykey, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please provide a bit of background on you. And, where did you get the idea for Taykey? I’m 25 years old, from Israel, now living in New York. I started the company 2 years ago with my co-founder, Itay Birnboim, and later we […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New OPA Study Touts Display The OPA is back! – as Mediaweek’s Mike Shields looks at a new report from the Online Publishers Association (OPA). He capsulizes it as follows: “The Online Publishers Association is so adamant about convincing traditional brand advertisers that good […]

Following up a report from earlier today on AdExchanger.com, yet another reliable source says that Dotomi is being acquired by Aol as CEO Tim Armstrong reaches to his company’s cash and stock to add a quality retargeting solution. Given recent strategic AOL moves such as Project Devil which brings an integrated, “big ads” approach to […]

A reliable source has informed AdExchanger.com that performance marketing company Dotomi (AdExchanger.com Q&A from 2009) is in the final stages of being acquired by… fill-in-the-blank. Yes, I’m sorry to say I don’t know who it is. But my source has been rock-solid in the past and says the Dotomi exit is about to happen as […]

Yesterday, online advertising technology and services company Collective announced its new Collective Exchange. According to a press release about the Exchange, the new product “allows agency trading desks to directly access, and bid on, Collective’s premium, brand-safe inventory and extensive audience data.” Read more. CEO Joe Apprendi discussed the announcement and its implications. AdExchanger.com: Why […]

Online advertising technology company AudienceScience announced its new AudienceConnect product which “pairs premium publishers who wish to optimize yield and maintain content quality with top-tier advertisers and agencies seeking to associate their brand with select publishers to dramatically increase conversion and overall advertising effectiveness,” according to the release. Read more. CEO Jeff Hirsch talked about […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. 2011 Wild Card Reuters looks at the growing momentum in the media sector, but says, overall, their remains cautious optimism, at best. Reuters Paul Thomasch writes, “The wild card is 2011. If the job market improves and housing shows signs of life, consumer sentiment […]

Here’s the press release (read it): Regarding the funding, “The Rubicon Project also announced an $18 million round of funding, bringing total financial investments to $60 million. The current financing round included funding from News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn. the Rubicon Project […]

Today on the Yahoo! Advertising blog, Yahoo! announced its new “Personalized Retargeting” product which it claims can “turn prospects into customers at an even higher rate than standard retargeting—and you’ll only pay for clicks or conversions.” In addition the company announced the rebranding of its ad network calling it the ‘Yahoo! Network Plus’ ad network, […]

Video ad marketplace Adap.tv announced recently that it is seeing “a 92 percent average monthly growth rate for video ad views within its marketplace since the launch in February 2010”. Read the release. Adap.tv founder and VP of Product Teg Grenager provided some perspective on recent developments at his company. AdExchanger.com: Historically, there has been […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP Group Hockey Stick For an ad holding company, WPP Group’s 3rd quarter 2010 financial growth surprised at it grew more than at any time in the past 10 years with a 7.5% increase in revenue to $3.6 billion which was helped by strong […]

Investment banking firm LUMA Partners – led by Terence Kawaja – announced that Brian Andersen, who recently headed corp development at Omniture, is joining LUMA Partners and opening the company’s Palo Alto office. Andersen discussed his new role and his view of the advertising landscape. AdExchanger.com: Why get into the investment banking business now? BA: […]

Announcement on Monday – likely regarding the acquisition of FAN assets… from the press release: the Rubicon Project Hosts Press Conference With CEO & Founder, Frank Addante LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–the Rubicon Project will host a press conference to discuss company strategy and future growth plans. Who: Frank Addante, CEO and Founder of the Rubicon Project […]

Gurbaksh Chahal is CEO of RadiumOne, an online advertising network. You’re back on the ad network scene with your newest company after a successful and very lucrative exit with Blue Lithium when it was sold to Yahoo!.  Why? Why not kick back? GC: To sit still is not in my DNA. I sold my first […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft’s Major Moolah Microsoft reported its fiscal Q1 2011 earnings yesterday and – woohoo! – they make a lotta cash their in Redmond: “Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $7.12 billion, $5.41 billion and $0.62 per share, […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

David Norris is the CEO of BlueCava, an advertising technology company. Please share a little history on the company. BlueCava was spun-off. Why? DN: In early 2010, BlueCava was spun out of its parent company, Uniloc, to be a focused operating company to take Uniloc’s core technology to market. As part of the spin-out, BlueCava […]

Dan Greenberg is CEO of Sharethrough, a social video advertising and technology company. AdExchanger.com: Your bio notes that you were a teaching assistant in a Facebook class in Stanford in 2007. Why is this relevant to your new venture at Sharethrough? Also, gotta ask, how did you “grade” someone in a Facebook class? DG: The […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rapleaf Cont. It’s been an interesting week (understatement?) for Rapleaf as coverage continues in The Wall Street Journal with controversy about the company’s technology reaching a U.S. Senate campaign. According to The WSJ’s Emily Steel, “New Hampshire Republican Senate hopeful Jim Bender apologized to […]

“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 Mike Gaffney, CRO, at Auditude. Television advertising dollars are starting to follow consumers and move online in a meaningful way. We will examine three strategies that digital […]

Adi Orzel is CEO of Xtend Media, an online display advertising network. Orzel recently updated AdExchanger.com on his company’s progress in the past year. AdExchanger.com: About a year ago, you suggested that there was a growing importance to the demand-side platform model and exchanges in XTEND media’s business.  Where do you stand today in this […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Funding For Video Ad Marketplace VentureBeat’s Julie Klein noticed from the SEC’s funding wire that video ad marketplace Adap.tv is recipient of $4.5 million worth of funding from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds and Spark Capital. Read more. See the SEC filing. […]

Is Rubicon Project on the verge of announcing the acquisition of Fox Audience Network assets as previously reported here on AdExchanger.com? It looks like it all may – MAY – go down on Monday if one infers from this email sent to Fox Audience Network MyAds advertisers this evening. Dear Advertiser, We’re reaching out in […]

Mike Leo is CEO of Operative, an online advertising systems company. (Editor’s note: Operative acquired Solbright last week – read more about the acquisition from Adotas’ Gavin Dunaway. And, read the release.) AdExchanger.com: Seven years as CEO and President for one company is not the norm for digital.  Why does it make sense for you? […]

PerformLine annouced a new product recently aimed at the online education marketing space called PerformMatch™ BPS which “is a set of compliance rules for higher education marketers to proactively begin self-regulation of their online advertising campaigns against misrepresentations.” Read the release. PerformLine CEO Alex Baydin discussed his company’s new product as well as complexities in […]

In a press release, creative ad technology firm PointRoll announced new research that it says showed, “Through ad sequencing, advertisers can actively and frequently engage users on a one-to-one basis by developing an ad sequence based on a user’s previous exposure or engagement with ads. The study found that by using sequencing, advertisers are able […]