Hooman Radfar is CEO of Clearspring, a social data and solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: Why are you entering the online audience space now? HR: Clearspring has always been focused on creating innovative data-driven, technologies to connect publishers and advertisers to users of the social web. Over the last couple of years, we have done that by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Reports Q2; Display Weak Aol missed Wall Street expectations as it reported its second quarter earnings which showed a huge drop largely due to the $1.4 billion write-off of social network Bebo which it sold for next-to-nothing in the quarter. GigaOm’s Matthew Ingram […]
Earlier this week, Turn announced a major update to its demand-side platform, Turn Media Platform v2.5, which “includes a streamlined workflow and automated campaign analyzer.” Read the release. Philip Smolin, GM Platform Solutions at Turn, discussed the update to Turn’s DSP as well as his company’s approach to service, and industry trends. AdExchanger.com: Beyond simplified […]
VisualDNA announced a new product it just launched with the Mirror Newspaper Group (see it) in the UK. The company calls it a “new publisher product that effectively provides them with a form of DSP (demand-side platform) for their entire audience.” CEO Alex Willcock of Imagini Holdings Limited, an advertising technology company and makers of […]
Tod Sacerdoti is CEO of BrightRoll, video advertising technology company, makers of the BrightRoll Exchange (Read today’s release.). AdExchanger.com: Why does the exchange format lend itself well to video? TS: The primary reason the exchange format lends itself to online video is because the automation of media buying and selling provides efficiencies and liquidity for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WSJ WTK: TagMan, X+1 The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series, which looks at what it calls “spying” by the data-driven digtal ad industry, continues as TagMan GM Jon Baron discusses how his company manages cookies and tags, “We care about tags. (…) […]
eXelate announced today that it has raised a “$15 million second round of funding led by Silicon Valley’s Menlo Ventures with participation of Israel’s Carmel Ventures, who led the company’s $4 million ‘A’ round.” Read the release. CEO Meir Zohar discussed the implications of the funding as well as impact of the data market on […]
Dapper announced its new Dapper DisplayDR, as a full- or self-service option, and which offers among other capabilities the ability to transform “a product catalog into an automatically updating, live feed” which can then be used for ad targeting.Read the release. Dapper CEO James Beriker discussed his company and the new self-service offering. AdExchanger.com: Why […]
“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Kirby Winfield is President and CRO of Mpire’s AdXpose. On a recent conference dais, Scott Knoll from Aperture shared a deceptively simple insight in regards to the topic of audience buying. He pointed out that simply buying an audience […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The WSJ And Data Collection In a detailed opinion piece, BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol takes issue with the recent Wall Street Journal article series called “What They Know” and adds, “is misleading at best and damaging to the online industry at its worst. We […]
Chris Lien is CEO of Marin Software, makers of a paid search management application. AdExchanger.com: How do you respond to some who say that the world of SEM management has been commoditized? How does Marin Software differentiate? The only way the paid search management tools market will become commoditized is if paid search were to […]
AdMeld announced in a release that it has raised $15 million in an investment round “led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). Time Warner Investments and the company’s existing backers, Spark Capital and Foundry Group.” Read the release. AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett discussed the capital raise and insights on the industry. When you went out seeking […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The WSJ On Data-Driven Ads A team of Wall Street Journal reporters have launched a new series of reports on the data-driven online advertising industry starting with “The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets.” The WSJ’s Julia Angwin writes, “One of the fastest-growing businesses […]
“The Debate” is a column focused on the current debate around ad targeting and consumer privacy. Today’s article is written by Auren Hoffman, CEO, Rapleaf. IP addresses are the fabric of the Internet— they are the “To” and “From” stamps that make delivering messages between computers possible. While they are necessary to route information from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Conversational Display Ads Ripple6 announced that it is incorporating real-time conversations into display ads with its SocialAd and Socialite offering: “[Each incorporates] real-time comments from social networking conversations directly into online display ads and, as a result, enhance consumers’ interaction rates with the ads.” […]
“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 Rob Leathern, CEO of XA.net, an online advertising company. It’s a convenient fiction: the CPMs garnered from real-time bidding (RTB) are high and going higher right now, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online Ads And News In The WSJ’s Heard On The Street column, Martin Peers looks how online ad revenue is affecting newspapers and questions whether online ads are helping or that print has fallen through the floor. He notes, “At the Times Co., print-ad […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Amiad Solomon, Founder & President at Peer39. In an effort to improve the accuracy of its search engine, Google recently acquired Metaweb, a semantic Web company with a […]
David Kenny’s next stop after Publicis VivaKi is Akamai where he’ll become President. According to a press release, he will be “responsible for leading Akamai’s business operations, including the company’s product groups; global sales, services, and marketing; engineering; and networks and operations.” Akamai adds an agency player and former CEO of Digitas to its exec […]
Tom Chavez is an entrepreneur, technologist, musician, and family man residing in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of Rapt Inc., and following the acquisition of Rapt by Microsoft, he served as General Manager of Microsoft Advertising’s Online Publisher Business Group. I have received an overwhelming amount of feedback from my last missive. I […]
Matt Wasserlauf is CEO of BBE, an online video advertising company. AdExchanger.com: In a nutshell, what problem(s) is BBE solving today? MW: BBE is providing efficiency and effectiveness in online video. Efficiencies are captured by price, but not only price. We built VINDICO, our proprietary video ad-server and tracking system to remove the speed bumps […]
BuzzLogic announced recently that former OMG businessintelligence exec John Donahue was hired as CTO. Read the release. The company also announced yesterday that it has raised $8 million in Series B financing Adams Capital Management with participation from Ackerley Partners. Read the release. Donahue discussed the ad industry and his new role. AdExchanger.com: Looking at […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdMeld And The Media Trust On Malvertising With malvertising posing a threat to online display advertising, The Media Trust and AdMeld have formed a new partnership according to an article from Joe Mandese of MediaPost. Mandese writes, “The Media Trust is part of a […]
Nitin Shah is CEO of Feeva, a provider of targeting data for online ad campaigns. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come from for Feeva? -and, where’d the name come from? NS: Feeva is a play on the word fever. The idea is to spice up Internet networks with a new ingredient that heats them to […]
MediaMath publicly announced the launch of its updated Terminal One platform last week. GM Anthony Katsur of MediaMath discussed the new platform and how agencies are working with it. AdExchanger.com: How are agencies working with your TerminalOne platform today? AK: Agencies and Holding Companies work with Terminal One in three primary ways: 1. Self-service – […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. NBCU Ad Network And Audience NBC Universal is creating an ad network called “Universal Audience Platform,” according to ClickZ’s Douglas Quenqua who writes that the network is to include “21 NBCU properties, including Bravotv.com, NBC.com, Oxygen.com and Syfy.com” and will enable marketers to buy […]
Tom Shields is CEO of publisher yield optimization company, Yieldex. AdExchanger.com: What have been some big surprises to you regarding the industry as a whole in the past 12 months? – And for Yieldex in particular? TS: The biggest surprise to me is twofold: 1) that so many DSPs sprang to prominence and got the […]
All Things D’s Peter Kafka covers Glam Media’s acquisition of AdPortal which is a spin-off of Sportsgenic, a men’s vertical sports ad network. The AdPortal technology will be the basis for “‘GlamAdapt for Publishers,’ a one-stop solution to web-enable all digital inventory for existing and emerging demand sales channels,” according to Samir Arora, CEO of […]
