AdExchanger.com spoke to Google’s Lexi Reese, director, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, about the whitepaper (PDF) which offers insights about publishers using Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange within the past year. (Google’s Neal Mohan formally announced the whitepaper on the Google blog here. Interview with Mohan by PaidContent’s David Kaplan is here.) Also, Reese discussed new category blocking […]
On January 4, Centro announced that it had raised $22.5 million from FTV Capital. In a release, the Company said, “This financing will fuel increased investment in Centro’s automated digital media buying software, Transis, as well as accelerate a significant expansion of Centro’s sales force targeting mid-tier advertisers and ad agencies.” Read the release. Shawn […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Agonistes There is something about AOL’s mystique that seems to attract a lot of deep thinking and furrowed brows about its future. The company, which has been around almost as long as the modern Internet, has gone through many faces and phases: Internet […]
From the Official Google blog, Google exchange strategy takes center stage as VP of Product Management Neal Mohan announces the publication of a new whitepaper which reaffirms what he says is the contribution which the DoubleClick Ad Exchange is making to the advertising ecosystem. Read the post. And, download the paper. (PDF) Mohan notes the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lotame’s New Target Demographic ad targeter Lotame is starting a new business that involves providing ad agencies and brands with greater insight on how their online ad campaigns are performing. Given the industry’s insatiable thirst for analytics the creation of the Lotame Media Group […]
The much ballyhooed search-and-display convergence has been lighting up the digital airwaves for over a year now as startup companies either enter the space looking to provide a solution, or media agencies, search engine marketers, ad networks and DSPs add the search-display channel to its offering. Yet, it remains early days for a publicly available, […]
Yesterday in an article by AdWeek’s Katy Bachman, behavioral ad self-regulation tech company Better Advertising announced that it is changing its name to Evidon and that Publicis’ VivaKi had signed on as a partner to utilize Evidon’s services to provide the “i” and privacy controls to consumers within display ads. Read more. Evidon’s CEO Scott […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Selling Ads At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, global sales chief Carolyn Everson tells ClickZ’s Zach Rodgers about her company’s new focus on agencies as its sells ads across Microsoft properties: “We are now going very deep agency-by-agency, client-by-client. It’s part of a […]
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David Brussin is CEO of Monetate, a provider of testing, targeting, and personalization services for websites. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Monetate solving? DB: Monetate is helping companies realize some of the fundamental promises of eCommerce. For years, companies have been hearing about the great potential of agile, focused, one-to-one marketing on the Internet. Yet achieving […]
Cross Pixel Media announced Data Desk which the company says, “is unique because it is the only audience marketplace to present audience data on a brand by brand basis, offering the advertiser full transparency into the source and brand behind the audience.” Read the release. CEO Alan Pearlstein discussed Data Desk and some of its […]
On Tuesday, tag management firm TagMan announced that it had closed $2+ million in Series A investment led by venture capital firm Greycroft Partners. TagMan founder and CEO Paul Cook said in the release, “We will put the new funding to immediate use in releasing version 3 of our technology, building out our infrastructure to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Partnering Over Optimization Attempting to take another step in solving the attribution gap, MarketShare Partners and comScore announced a new partnership. From the release: “MarketShare will integrate comScore’s proprietary search, display, mobile and video data into their marketing analytics, resulting in more precise recommendations […]
In an article in Ad Age, vertical ad network IDG TechNetwork announced that it has entered into an agreement with sell-side platform AdMeld, who will provide technology and services for a private display ad exchange called TechMediaExchange.com. AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett tells Ad Age’s Edmund Lee, “More and more publishers are looking to find ways […]
Matt Keiser is CEO of LiveIntent, a trading desk and exchange solution for email and display. AdExchanger.com: First, can you share a little bit about your background and how you got to forming LiveIntent? Prior to founding LiveIntent, I co-founded and served as the President of Datran Media. I architected Datran System, the underlying technology […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cox Folds The Adify Brand Cox Communications announced that it is bringing vertical ad network tech and media company Adify under the Cox umbrella. Let’s hope it’s not raining. Cox Cross Media and Adify will now become Cox Digital Solutions. According to a press […]
In a morning panel at the Gridley & Co. Conference in New York City moderated by Gridley’s Pratik Patel, panelists from the data-driven ecosystem paused just long enough amidst the swirl of funding announcements to provide a few nuggets on the momentum for real-time bidded inventory. Setting the stage for the discussion, real-time ad platform […]
Atul Patel is CEO of OneScreen, a technology platform that operates a video exchange for content producers, publishers/distributors, and advertisers. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come from for OneScreen? And, what’s the name mean? The idea of OneScreen came when we applied our insights from startups in lead generation and display advertising to the digital […]
Below is a sample of industry reaction to yesterday’s acquisition of attribution analytics company ClearSaleing by e-Commerce infrastructure and services company GSI Commerce. Read the release. Justin Evans, SVP Audience Insights, Collective GSI’s move into the advertising analytics arena emphasizes the trend among advertisers to take advantage of increasingly sophisticated ROI metrics. As data sources […]
Andrew Nibley was recently appointed CEO of Yieldex. From last week’s release, “Prior to joining Yieldex, Nibley was Chairman and CEO of WPP’s advertising and digital marketing agency Marsteller. He has also served as CEO at several digital media companies owned by media giants Vivendi, Bertelsmann and Reuters, including co-founding Reuters New Media.” Read more. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Time Merges Print and Digital Sales AdAge reports that Time is fusing the mighty forces of its print and digital corporate sales, the two units that handle the media giant’s biggest advertisers. Assuming the wheel of the hybrid vehicle is Leslie Picard, previously the […]
Petsky Prunier provided investment banking services in today’s announced acquisition of ClearSaleing by GSI Commerce. Sanjay Chadda, Partner & Managing Director at Petsky Prunier discussed the transaction. AdExchanger.com: How long was the deal in the making? What’s your view on M&A momentum currently? SC: As a high profile company and given its #1 ranking in […]
GSI Commerce announced today that its Global Marketing Services division has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based, attribution analytics firm ClearSaleing. From the GSI Commerce release: “The acquisition of ClearSaleing broadens and deepens the division’s portfolio of marketing services offerings and overall market position. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.” Read more. Chris Saridakis, CEO, GSI Global […]
Gil Elbaz is CEO of Factual, an open data platform. AdExchanger.com: Looking at your experience when you sold Applied Semantics to Google (which became AdSense), what is relevant today with Factual? GE: Applied Semantics was founded to develop and take advantage of it’s natural language understanding technologies which extracted meaning from unstructured data, and AdSense […]
There appears to be good momentum in digital advertising for ad verification solutions, but where does it all end up? Can a “point solution” evolve into a sustainable, long-term business within the ad technology stack? I’d argue more “points” will need to be added – especially if these companies want to “exit.” But first, let […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hamman Heads To Chango Parting is always tough, especially when you started the display media group at your digital marketing agency. Dax Hamman is giving up the reigns on the display media group at iCrossing — acquired by Hearst this past summer for a […]
“The Debate” is a column focused on the current debate around ad targeting and consumer privacy. Today’s article is written by Zach Coelius, CEO, Triggit. As the debate about the use of user data or “privacy” on the Internet swirls around us, a cacophony of voices are yelling that unless we adopt their policies the […]
Wednesday, demand-side platform Turn announced the closing of a $20 million Series D round of funding led by Greenspring Associates and existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Shasta Ventures and Focus Ventures. Read the release. Turn CEO Bill Demas discussed plans for the new funds and industry trends. AdExchanger.com: Do you identify Turn as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Display Declaration Even as rivals Yahoo and Google claimed easy display revenue increases in 2010, AOL continued to struggle. The company was in the midst of a major overhaul of its ad systems and approach CEO Tim Armstrong cautioned many times. Over the […]
