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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 […]

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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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aol Gets Political Everyone is gearing up for the fall political season including Aol as the company announced a new political vertical ad network that can be accessed through its self-service Ad Desk ad platform or through Aol Advertising’s full-service sales team. The vertical […]

Ad network Rocket Fuel announced success it has seen using intender data from consumer intent data exchange companies such as Blue Kai with results showing a “lowering cost per action and engagement metrics by an average of 43.75% versus other targeting methods.” Read the release. Rocket Fuel President Richard Frankel discussed the findings and their […]

Jay Friedman is COO of Goodway Group, a marketing services and ad network company. AdExchanger.com: Please discuss the transition to digital advertising for Goodway Group.  What have been the challenges? JF: In 2006 we added digital media to Goodway’s core services but we didn’t really begin to transition away from the direct response business until […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Reports Fiscal Q4, Ch-Ching They aren’t opening their own Federal Reserve, yet, but maybe they could. Microsoft reported over $16 billion in revenue with $4.52 billion in net income which comes to $0.51 per share. See the IR release. Was Wall Street happy? […]

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The following is an excerpted interview with Ramsey McGrory, Yahoo! VP and Head of Right Media Exchange.  McGrory discusses recently announced plans for Yahoo!’s display advertising exchange – Right Media Exchange. Topics covered include: The results of the Demand-Side Platform (DSP) Pilot Program… A new Search Engine Marketing pilot on Right Media Exchange… Demand Media, […]

Jeremy Cornfeldt, Managing Director, Digital, of Media Storm, a digital media agency. AdExchanger.com: On a percentage basis, how much ad spend is devoted to display in a typical campaign? Can you see this changing going forward? Why or why not? JC: It really varies for our campaigns on the goals of each initiative.  At the […]

DoubleVerify CEO Oren Netzer discussed his company’s new research group called the “Advertising Fraud Detection Lab [which] will investigate advertising fraud in real-time and raise awareness of deceptive scams taking place every day across thousands of publishers.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com: How big a problem is impression fraud today? Impression fraud is a huge issue […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdECN Getting RTB Inventory Microsoft Advertising’s Eric Dahlberg makes two public announcements on the Microsoft Advertsing blog which have implications for Microsoft’s AdECN exchange. First, “In recent weeks we have on-boarded US Windows Live inventory – including Hotmail and Messenger – into our exchange, […]