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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. More Mobile Ad Network Money The ad network is not dead. Not even close. The red hot mobile ad network business – at least VC love it! – has seen yet-another-funding-event as Jumptap announced the closing of a $25 million round of financing with […]

Yesterday, search and display media buying platform company Efficient Frontier acquired Context Optional which the company said “expands Efficient Frontier’s social media offering [and] will combine the company’s advertising campaign management and optimization with Context Optional’s page management platform,” according to the release. Read it. Efficient CEO David Karnstedt discussed the implications of the acquisition. […]

Chris O’Brien, Managing Director and Digital Office Lead, for Mindshare Chicago recently discussed his new role (read the release) and his agency perspective on the digital space. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a little a bit about your background and new role? CO: I’ve been in marketing for 15 plus years, and 10 of those have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aol Display Sees Growth Good news for display lovers as Aol may have hit bottom with its display momentum in and may be turning toward the display ad mountaintop if the company’s just-reported Q1 2011 financials are any indication. In the earnings release, Aol […]

Eric Stein is EVP of Digital Strategy at Epsilon, a data-driven marketing services firm and a division of Alliance Data Company. AdExchanger.com: First, can you talk a bit about Epsilon’s corporate structure and history? Epsilon was founded in 1969 and has established itself as a preeminent provider of integrated, data-driven multichannel marketing solutions. Epsilon is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aiming At Media If you have your fingers on big data associated with commerce and advertising, why not open a marketing services business? Akamai has been doing it for a while with ADS – as has competitor Limelight Networks which announced on Monday a […]

Mark Hughes is CEO of C3 Metrics, an online advertising attribution company. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the key learnings that you had as VP of Marketing at Half.com (sold to eBay for $300 million in 2000), that have come in handy at C3 Metrics? Both eBay and half.com embraced a data-driven culture for media buying […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. comScore Reports On Display, And Reports In advance of its own earnings release, comScore looked at its web-wide stats and announced that “Facebook accounted for more than one-quarter (25.8%) of all U.S. display ad impressions in the fourth quarter of 2010 — up from […]

Today, Google announced performance results for Google remarketing offering in AdWords in comparison to standard display advertising. Also, the company announced the pending availability of new enhancements to its remarketing capabilities offered through AdWords on The Google Display Network. This includes adding Teracent to the remarketing toolkit, the company’s dynamic creative technology acquired in 2009. […]

Rob Lenderman is Co-Founder, CIO-CMO of BoostCTR, a crowdsourced marketplace the optimization and testing of online ad creative. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come for “BoostCTR”? RL: A few years ago I was working at a company that inherited an AdWords account for a multi-million dollar company. They had not had a single text ad […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Print As Loss Leader For Digital No more Jack Griffin? No problem. Time Inc has been able to iron out its problems with Apple and allow print subscribers free access to the iPad version according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple’s no fool here […]

John Bauschard is President of MediaBank Marketplaces and Tim Ogilvie is CEO of AdBuyer.com which was acquired by agency systems company, MediaBank, last week. Ogilvie becomes MediaBank’s new SVP of Product. Read the press release. The two discussed the acquisition and the strategy going-forward. Click below or scroll for more: Why MediaBank Is Buying AdBuyer […]

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

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Akamai Sees Seasonal Slowdown Q1 earnings didn’t disappoint but web infrastructure provider Akamai did indicate some slowing growth for Q2 2011 on Wednesday’s Q1 2011 earnings call with Wall Street analysts. Little was discussed about Akamai’s Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) business which was originally […]

CEO Bill Wise’s MediaBank announced today that it has acquired demand-side platform AdBuyer.com (Read AdExchanger.com Q&As from 2009 and 2010). According to the MediaBank press release: “MediaBank will make the AdBuyer platform available to MediaBank partners via the MediaBank O|X and A|V media management systems, and will expand AdBuyer’s cross-channel capabilities across all major media—creating […]

Alicia Navarro is CEO of Skimlinks, an affiliate links ad network. AdExchanger.com: Where did the name and idea come from? AN: When I originally started the company, it was completely different. ‘Skimbit’ was a social decision-making app, named because it ‘skimmed the best bits’ from sites you liked. We eventually built our own monetization technology […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. eBay Makin’ Money eBay reported its first quarter 2011 revenue results and things are looking good at the world’s largest digital garage sale as revenue “increased 16% to $2.5 billion, compared to the same period of 2010. The company recorded first quarter net income […]

Safeguard Scientifics, an investor in demand-side platform MediaMath, provided a little bit more insight on MediaMath financials as part of Safeguard’s latest regulatory filings. Among the details, MediaMath grew revenues 150% from 2009 to 2010 and “Safeguard provided $9 million in follow-on funding, in part, to expand MediaMath global sales and marketing initiatives, and to […]

Manu Mathew is CEO of Visual IQ, a channel marketing intelligence software company. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start with the name Visual IQ – what’s the idea there? MM: The name Visual IQ represents the two high-level concepts behind the hosted software products that comprise our IQ Intelligence Suite – the first being the world’s most accurate […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Reports Q1, Build-Out Amazon reported its Q1 2011 earnings yesterday and missed Wall Street analyst earnings projections as “Net income decreased 33% to $201 million in the first quarter, or $0.44 per diluted share, compared with net income of $299 million, or $0.66 […]

At the recent AppNexus Summit, in addition to an announcement by AppNexus regarding new APIs which will allow partners to build their own tools on top of the company’s real-time ad platform, Microsoft outlined its plans for roll-out of its owned-and-operated display inventory through its exchange (see the new product page), which is powered by […]

Duncan McCall is CEO & Co-Founder of PlaceIQ, a location-based data provider. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a little about how your experience “fed” the idea for PlaceIQ? DM: I have always had a passion for the location space. I have travelled to many interesting places and many years ago went through the experience of downloading […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Media Adding Online Commerce The Travel Channel announced that it has invested $7.5 million in Oyster.com – described by The New York Times as a “start-up that employs professionals to review hotels and takes a cut of all the room reservations it helps to […]

ValueClick has officially acquired mobile ad network Greystripe in a deal value at $70 million. According to a ValueClick press release, some revenue numbers on Greystripe: “For the remainder of 2011, Greystripe is expected to contribute to ValueClick’s consolidated results approximately $24-$26 million in revenue and $2-$3 million in adjusted-EBITDA.” Read more. Referencing this morning’s […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Soloff, CEO, Metamarkets, a publisher analytics company. Around the time he was busy founding a retail bank, my good friend Josh Reich offered the insight that […]

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?” Cathleen Ryan is Chief Results Officer, MEA | DIGITAL, partner of Arkitektive. Google has been trying to figure out how the get their hands in the brand dollar […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ValueClick Buys Greystripe ValueClick has taken a reported $75 million plunge into the mobile advertising business with the acquisition of mobile ad network Greystripe according to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington. He writes, “Greystripe has raised $18.1 million in funding to date over four rounds. They […]

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