Carnet Williams is CEO and Co-Founder of Sprout, a brand engagement ad platform. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start with the name – how does “Sprout” mesh with what you’re doing today? And, what problem is Sprout solving and how does this play out with your announcement about Disney? CW: The display advertising business is still incredibly young. […]
Demand-side platform CPM Advisors announced that it would be leveraging the technology infrastructure of publisher optimizer, Mediageeks. Read the release. AdExchanger.com discussed the announcement with CPM Advisors CEO Rob Leathern and MediaGeeks GM Jacob LeWinter. AdExchanger.com: It’s interesting that a demand-side tech company is partnering with a publisher-side technology company – and beyond just buying […]
WildTangent, with an online games ad network of over 100+ million unique users according to the company, announced a “unique advertising platform, BrandBoost™, which provides brand marketers the opportunity to reward gamers with complimentary game play and virtual items in return for brand engagement.” Read the release (PDF). WildTangent’s EVP of Business Development and Marketing, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reply.com Going IPO Lead gen marketplace, Reply.com, announced that it will go public as it has filed its registration statement. Complete release on the Reply.com blog. This announcement comes on the heals of a recent IPO by lead gen company, Quin Street, and just […]
Aiming to solve the needs of the supply-side, and cutting the existing yield optimizers out of the game, Google says that it has “re-written DFP” (Susan Wojcicki’s words at this week’s IAB event) and believes it is offering more reasons than ever to park large publisher inventory with… warning acronym change… was: DART For Publishers… […]
“The Provocateur” column is intended to incite discussion on a variety of topics around the evolution of digital media. Darren Herman is Founder, Varick Media Management and Chief Digital Media Officer of kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners Liquidity is “Easy,” Valuation is Hard – Current “demand side” technology platforms do not ingest client side data […]
“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Andy Atherton, COO and co-Founder, Brand.net. My former boss, Wenda Harris Millard, had one of the most quotable, and quoted, lines in the online media industry in 2008 when she said, “We must not trade our advertising inventory like […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobclix Clicking Mobile ad exchange, Mobclix, is doubling in size monthly according to a Portfolio.com piece with co-founder Krishna Subramanian (AdExchanger.com Q&A). From the interview, Mobclix “is on a $25 million to $30 million run rate and serving some 3.5 billion ad impressions per […]
“The Global Address” is a column written by members of the digital media community with an international perspective on the digital space. Paul Turner is Director of International Business Development at Invite Media, a demand-side platform. They say a week is a long time in politics – well it appears that the same could also […]
Matthias Pantke is CEO of AdScale GmbH, an online advertising marketplace based in Germany, AdExchanger.com: Give us a bit of background on you and how it’s prepared you as well as the evolution of AdScale’s business model – which has been around for a few years, correct? My career started at DSF in 1997 (the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Google Display Chief In an article, Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth introduces the new head of display at Google, Barry Salzman, who makes a return engagement of sorts after working at DoubleClick until 2002. According to Learmonth, Salzman will be “head of media and […]
Triggit announced its new self-service, demand-side platform for online display advertising today. Read more on TechCrunch. AdExchanger.com spoke to Triggit CEO Zach Coelius about the launch and his expectations for the product. AdExchanger.com: How different is this new platform then what you have been running to date? ZC: Our launch today is the beta version […]
Jeff Zwelling is CEO and Co-Founder of Convertro, a marketing metrics attribution company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Convertro trying to solve? JZ: Marketers today are in large part “flying blind” when it comes to properly allocating their marketing dollars among their various marketing channels. I say this because most advertisers are relying upon outdated tracking […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Tyler Fitch is Director of Ad Network Sales at hi5 Networks, Inc., a social media website. I know the AdMeld Partner Forum in NYC a couple of weeks ago has been mentioned multiple times already, but I wanted to give it […]
Quantcast announced a recent deal with MTV Networks in which Quantcast will offer “audience targeting capabilities on sites in MTVN’s domestic online portfolio, including MTV.com, VH1.com, ComedyCentral.com and Spike.com, as well as on partner sites in the company’s Tribes vertical ad network.” Read the release. Quantcast CRO Todd Teresi discussed the announcement and its cross-channel, […]
OpenAmplify recently announced research which showed that by using the company’s semantic technology, it was able to discover engagement levels for certain brand ads – such as Audi ads after the Super Bowl, in this case. Read the release. Mark Redgrave, CEO of OpenAmplify, discussed the findings with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Are brands such as Audi […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turn Climbs Aboard AdECN It’s ALIVE! AdECN is evidently humming with the RTB-infused Federated system as the Turn blog sheds light on the remarkably stealthy proceedings at Microsoft. (It’s hard for big Microsoft to be stealthy, right?) According to Turn Senior Director of Engineering […]
Creative optimization company, Tumri, announced in a release today what it calls a new cloud-based, “real-time marketing analytics solution” with the goal of simplifying “campaign launch and reduce time-to-value for the most common types of dynamic creative marketing campaigns.” Read the release. AdExchanger discussed the announcement with Tumri CEO Calvin Lui. AdExchanger.com: It would seem […]
Today, PubMatic announced that it is offering a next rev in its publisher-side yield optimization platform which notably includes “guaranteed inventory yield management” and possibly puts it into competition with Yieldex, which has been working the direct sales optimization side for publishers for a while now. See the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev […]
“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Tim Ogilvie, CEO of AdBuyer.com, a demand-side optimization platform. “We sell. Or else.” — David Ogilvy The best thing a marketer can do for their business and their career is to transform their advertising expense to […]
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In a release yesterday, Digital Element announced that it would begin offering postcode-level (“zip code” in the U.S.) targeting capabilities. (See the release.) Digital Element’s Vice President Frank Bobo discussed the implication of European expansion and the market for IP targeting. AdExchanger.com: Can you help us with the jargon? What does the phrase “postcode-level database” […]
“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, CEO at Peer39. When watching an NFL or NASCAR event on TV, you expect that most of the commercials aired will be for beer, restaurants, shavers, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adap.tv Gets Video Ad Exchange Clients Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth covers the news that Adap.tv has signed Gannett, Omnicom and Publicis among others to its ad exchange. Trying to temper concerns about lower CPMs, Adap.tv’s CEO Amir Ashkenazi says that in comparison to display […]
AdExchanger.com discussed TagMan‘s new funding announcement (See release.) and recent momentum with Jonathan Baron, co-founder and general manager of Tagman. AdExchanger.com: What attributes did you look for in a funding partner? How have you found the funding climate? JB: We sought partners that had an understanding of the online ad marketplace such that they could […]
James Beriker was named CEO of Dapper, an online advertising technology company. Beriker’s previous roles include CEO at Efficient Frontier, a search engine marketing firm. See the story. Beriker discussed Dapper and his experience with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: AdWeek quoted you as saying, “It’s [the] beginning days of display is a very powerful direct response channel.” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Search Retargeting From his Bronte Media blog, Niki Scevak unearths Google search retargeting efforts as Google’s Inside AdSense blog quietly announced last week that a “few hours” of search queries will be used to help target AdSense display ads: “The technical way that […]
“Networking” is a column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Michael Katz, President, InterCLICK. Ok, I admit I didn’t come up with the phrase and I hate to be the bearer of bad news but (the top 25) networks aren’t going away anytime soon. Recently there […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, ATOM, at Razorfish. Advertisers often feel their brand is their most valuable asset and spend lots of time, effort and money to build and maintain it. Of course an advertiser would know their audience, right? Right, but the real question is if […]
