“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Greg Hills is platform manager of media trading agency, Varick Media Management. My work focuses on the economics of advertising, but recently I’ve been thinking about the political economy of advertising. After all, advertising dollars don’t have a mind of their […]
Demand-side platform technology company [x+1] announced earlier this week that it’s first quarter results for 2010 were strong in comparison to 2009 as “revenue increased 77 percent over the first quarter of 2009,” according to the release. [x+1] CEO John Nardone discussed the details of the company’s first quarter results. Among your Fortune 500 clientele […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. NY Times Calls On Editor For Digital Strategy The New York Times is pulling one if its editors off of their beat to help with digital strategy. “Jill Abramson, managing editor for news at The New York Times, will step aside for six months […]
blip.tv, an online video broadcasting company, just announced a $10.1 million round of funding led by Canaan Partners and existing investors Bain Capital Ventures. Read the release. Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder of blip.tv, discussed the new funding and upcoming plans. AdExchanger.com: What can you share regarding the funding environment today? There’s less irrational exuberance […]
Brad Terrell is VP and general manager of digital media at Netezza, a data warehouse and analytic appliances company. He recently discussed his company’s client momentum in the digital media space including their ongoing deal with Acxiom (PDF). AdExchanger.com: Can you quantify the scope of working with Acxiom either in dollars or by number of […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Roland Cozzolino, CTO of MediaMath, an online advertising technology company. Whenever someone wants to understand the basics of RTB, I like to tell them that they need to understand […]
John Federman is president and CEO of Searchandise Commerce, an online media network for product manufacturers and their retail channel partners. How did Searchandise Commerce come together? Searchandise Commerce was founded in July 2008 by an executive team with extensive advertising, retail, search and high-tech experience. Our business model is based on the proven technique […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Buys VOIP Google has made its nearly weekly acquisition of a company for a sub $100 million price. This time it’s Global IP Solutions for $68.2 million according to MocoNews’ Joseph Tartikoff who adds that the company “sells technology used to deliver voice […]
Yahoo! officially opened up the pocketbook in an impressive way by acquiring Associated Content and getting its own content generating machine. Startups looking to be acquired should be jumping for joy as CEO Carol Bartz addresses her company’s content future in competition with companies like Demand Media and AOL’s Seed. There is also an important […]
Dan Salmon is an equity research analyst at BMO Capital Markets and covers advertising and marketing services. AdExchanger.com: Please provide a bit of background on you and how you and Bank of Montreal got into the marketing services space. DS: BMO Capital Markets is the investment banking arm of BMO Financial Group (aka Bank of […]
Jesse Chenard is CEO at Image Space Media, an in-image ad network. AdExchanger.com: Given your experience at Tremor Media, what key learnings are you bringing with you to Image Space Media? In order to present a scalable offering to advertisers, we need to fit into their entire online and offline ecosystem. This means measuring results […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MySpace Simplifies Privacy In a battle of privacy policies, MySpace has simplified its privacy setting that enable users to control what is tracked and what isn’t of their online MySpace experience. The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel writes, “The new MySpace privacy controls, which […]
LucidMedia announced a new self-service version of its demand-side platform targeting agencies and advertisers. Read the release. Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO and Founder of LucidMedia, discussed the different facets of the announcement. Why do you think agencies want self-service? Aren’t they overwhelmed as it is and need full or at least “fuller” service? Yes, agency media […]
C. Eoin Townsend is CEO of MainStreetSocial, an online monetization platform for local governments, residents and advertisers. What problem is MainStreetSocial solving? CET: Right now, 90% of local governments are suffering serious budget shortfalls while spending 20 billion dollars a year on technology outsourcing in an attempt to increase communication and connect with their residents. […]
Google, Facebook and Apple are on a collision course as each company’s content and technology are merging into super-heated cauldrons of profit. So, how will these three compete in the data-driven, addressable future of tomorrow’s display media? It’s still not crystal clear but there are clues. And, it should be noted that this is the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brand Marketer Invasion Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth reveals that brand marketers such as Unilever are invading Silicon Valley to keep track of the latest and greatest from technology companies that will impact their digital marketing mix. Unilever CMO Keith Weed tells Ad Age, “What […]
Nick Wilson, CTO, Break Media, a network of properties targeting young men. AdExchanger.com What problem is Break Media solving for advertisers today? NW: We offer clients the ability to reach a targeted audience of young men by producing, promoting, and distributing clients’ original videos and branded content across the Break Media Network of sites. Additionally, we […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ComScore: Big Numbers For Display ComScore put out a monster figure that Americans received 1 trillion display in the first quarter of 2010. Not billion, TRILLION. How many were teeth whitening ads? -Not sure, but the company estimated, “Total U.S. display ad spending in […]
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Though they aren’t big numbers in terms of the Internet’s hottest, three-word phrases, “demand-side platform” has come from nowhere to relative, online display advertising fame since January 1, 2010. Consider, if you will, the recent momentum for organic search traffic to AdExchanger.com when a phrase containing “demand side platform” is entered into a search engine […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. For anyone who has been watching the data space over the last year and a half, the explosion of […]
Andy Cocker, co-Founder and Managing Partner of UK-based, Infectious Media Ltd, a media agency, discussed the company’s momentum in the media trading space – and the company’s Impression Desk media buying platform – with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Please define Infectious Media‘s value proposition. AC: We are a media buying services company, specializing in data driven display […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Picard On DSPs And Display On Imedia Connection, Microsoft’s Eric Picard writes a think piece titled: “DSPs: What they really are and why you should care.” Picard references last week’s “A Few Good DSPs” video by GCA Savvian’s Terence Kawaja and says in regards […]
In a release last week, Permuto, a CPC, display ad retargeting company, announced that through its ad platform, the company had shown return-on-ad-spend results “within three percent of SEM” for e-tailer Heels.com. Read more. Shaukat Shamim, Co-Founder and CEO of Permuto, discussed the company’s services and shared observations about the e-commerce landscape. AdExchanger.com: When working […]
“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 Jonathan Mendez, founder of Yieldbot. “So far audience targeted media optimization has been a huge party that only the demand side has shown up for. The supply side […]
Satya Patel is a Partner at Battery Ventures, a venture capital and private equity investment firm. AdExchanger.com: Battery Ventures has been around since the ’80s as a venture and private equity firm. Looking at a high level, can you take us through some of the strategy pivots the firm has made in regards to digital […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Advocating For Transparency Standards Demand-side platform Turn’s CEO Bill Demas writes on ClickZ that publishers need to embrace RTB since it will help provide control by enabling “the means to create custom audience segments through direct sales teams” and more. Furthermore, Demas says, “As […]
Alan Pearlstein is CEO and President of Cross Pixel Media, a data-centric marketing services company. AdExchanger.com: How about a little background? How did you get where you are today? AP: I have always been a direct response marketer by training. The first business I started was a mail order catalog, and in 2002 I launched […]
“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 Part II of a two-part column (Part I is here) written by Mike Afergan, CTO & SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions at Akamai. Mention ‘shopping data’ to an agency […]
At New York City’s Time Warner Center last Thursday, Collective sponsored its 2nd annual “Display Advertising Uncensored” event, which brought together a broad cross-section of display advertising players to discuss the growing momentum (and confusion!) in the display ad space. The panel was moderated by Randy Cohen of Advertiser Perceptions and included Lexi Reese of […]
