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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook CTO Speaks On Ads In a note to clients, ThinkEquity analyst Atul Bagga shared an interview with Facebook CTO Bret Taylor about plans for the social media monster. Among his questions, Bagga asked, “How do you monetize the platform? Do you see the […]

Demand-side platform Turn announced that Scott Howe has joined its board of directors. A former aQuantive/Atlas/DrivePM exec who joined Microsoft as part of the multi-billion dollar aQuantive acquisition in 2007, Howe should provide Turn with deeper relationships with both agencies and marketers among other benefits. Read the release. Howe discussed his new board duties as […]

OpenX announced the next step in its strategy to try and “end around” the growing momentum of Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange juggernaut as well as exchange giant Right Media Exchange. The company announced a partnership similar to its Orange Market deal with Dentsu and CCI (Dentsu’s “media rep firm” subsidiary) to launch OpenX Market Japan. […]

Dan Boberg is President of Tallwave, a digital business accelerator. AdExchanger.com: Where do you see Tallwave fitting in the venture capital, angel and seed investing world? Is it competitive to these silos? Is it similar to Betaworks, for example? DB: Tallwave is a digital business accelerator that combines traditional consulting practices and start-up incubation services […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Fallacies About Web Privacy In The WSJ Emory University professor Paul Rubin makes the case for what he sees as recent obfuscation, misleading statements by various parties as it relates to the use of data in online advertising and consumer privacy. In a Wall […]

Matt Prohaska is CEO of Open Book Video, an early-stage digital video ad network. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a bit about how Open Book Video was “born”? How is the company funded? And, what happened in your previous role at Smartclip? MP: Open Book Video was born after hearing from publishers and advertisers that there […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting In Focus The New York Times Miguel Helft and Tanzina Vega take a look at retargeting of consumers through display advertising and reference the experiences of Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth and a consumer named Julia Matlin who are retargeted by Zappos ads. In […]

“the creative” is a column focused on the creative side of digital marketing. Today’s column is written by Barry Lowenthal, President of kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners‘ The Media Kitchen. The original thesis presented to me by AdExchanger.com was that technological innovation is occurring on the media buying side but there is less innovation on […]

Venkat Kolluri is CEO of Chitika, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: A bit of history first – what pivots has Chitika made in its strategy since it was founded? VK: There was one major, defining moment in Chitika’s history – that’s when we decided that knowing when NOT to show an ad is the most […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. USA Today Points To Digital The literally, colorful paper known as USA Today is not just getting a makeover but a complete strategic shift that began late last week. The New York Times reports that layoffs of the workforce are underway and that the […]

PointRoll recently announced results from a Ford campaign led by Ford’s agency, Team Detroit. For in-banner video ads using PointRoll technology for a Ford ‘Drive One’ campaign, “Interaction rates rose 74 percent for expandable video ad units and nearly doubled for non-expandable video ad units.” Read the release (PDF). Todd Huntley, SVP, Group Account Director […]

Tsafrir Peles is CEO of DSNR Media Group, an interactive advertising services provider. AdExchanger.com: A bit of history. How DMG pivoted in recent years to meet market opportunities? TP: DSNR Ltd., as a large scale international advertiser, was the first international advertiser on the right media network back in January of 2004, helping Mike Walrath […]

Michael Kelley is the newly-appointed CMO of AdGenesis, a video advertising platform. Please share a bit of background on yourself.  Why is AdGenesis the right next step for you? I have spent the better part of my 25 year career in marketing and building digital businesses including Hulu, AT&T’s national advertising business and mycokerewards.com, among […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search And Display From Webtrends Web Trends announced update to its product line as drives harder on the ad business. The company announced Webtrends Ads – according to the release – “an end-to-end, data-driven solution for creating, measuring and improving performance marketing acquisition across […]

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Julie Schoenfeld is CEO of Perfect Market, a publisher-side technology company. AdExchanger.com: With “Perfect Market,” the allusion to financial markets is hard to ignore.  Is there a connection? JS: Perfect Market is kind of a “good luck” domain for Idealab. It was the original name and domain for two of Idealab’s success stories.  In addition […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. BrightTag Announces Funding Data rights management platform BrightTag (AdExchanger.com Q&A) announced that it has closed its Series A financing led by TomorrowVentures and New World Ventures with participation from Epic Ventures and the I2A Fund – note TomorrowVentures involvement which is an investment vehicle […]

Marketshare Partners announced today that it has acquired analytics company, JovianData (AdExchanger.com Q&A from earlier in the year). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read the release. Wes Nichols, co-Founder and CEO of MarketShare Partners discussed the deal and the benefits of the combined companies. AdExchanger.com: Explain the fit between JovianData and MarketShare Partners […]

Terence Kawaja recently announced that he will be leaving investment banking firm GCA Savvian to start his own firm, LUMA Partners. Kawaja discussed the new firm and his strategy with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: You have suggested investment banking needs disruption? Why? TK: Fundamentally, I think some aspects of the banking model are broken.  Most bankers effectively […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online Ad Spend Swamis More good news from those who forecast digital ad spend. Borrell Associates says in a release, “Total online ad spending will grow almost 14 percent, from $45.6 billion, in 2010, to $51.9 billion, in 2011, while local online ad spending […]

“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 Karl Siebrecht at AdReady. “Media Is From Mars And Creative Is From Venus” Cheesy title for a column? Perhaps. Critically important topic that has been vastly underrepresented amidst […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bain Leaves FAN, Joins Twitter Former Fox Audience Network CEO Adam Bain will now be the one who gets to answer, “How is Twitter going to make money?” in that he’ll be in charge of driving all revenue at microblogging company Twitter. TechCrunch’s Mike […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Ad Heat ClickZ’s Zach Rodgers discusses “the heat” around display these days as he chronicles a round of last week’s festivities at Connected Marketing Week in San Francisco. Rodgers identifies what he calls the “800lb gorilla” in the space and writes, “Google (…) […]

Scott Spencer, Group Product Manager, DoubleClick Ad Exchange and Jason Miller, Group Product Manager, Google Display Network discussed the display media space as well as DoubleClick Ad Exchange enhancements with AdExchanger.com today. AdExchanger.com: What is Google announcing today? SCOTT SPENCER: Basically, we’re going to be rolling out a few more tools to help DoubleClick Ad […]

Mediabank announced yesterday that it has launched a demand-side platform: “M|Buy DSP will be a central console through which national advertisers can order buys on local TV, print, radio, out-of-home, digital, and other advertising.” Read more. CEO Bill Wise discussed his company’s DSP and its features. Please discuss why M|Buy exists and its strategic importance […]

LucidMedia is providing its contextual ClickSense technology “to enable enhanced contextualization services within ValueClick’s online advertising platforms.” Read the release. LucidMedia CEO Ajay Sravanapudi discussed the ValueClick deal. AdExchanger.com: Does this deal represent a strategic shift for LucidMedia? Are you moving away from the DSP model you announced earlier in the year? AS: No, our […]

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In a press release, local business data provider Localeze “announced its Enhanced Business Registry, which includes 14 million business listings, will be featured in Facebook Places.” Read more. Localeze president Jeff Beard discussed the implications of the Facebook deal. AdExchanger.com: What is the market opportunity that you see for Localeze? Localeze’s market opportunity is vast. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RIM Thinking Ad Network MocoNews’ Tricia Duryee discusses rumors that RIM, makers of the uber-popular Blackerry mobile device, is sniffing mobile ad networks as a pre-cursor to an acqusition. Duryee adds, “RIM’s user base can be looked at as a valuable demographic for advertisers, […]