GroupM announced that its B3 platform is launching what it calls “the industry’s first Demand Side Platform (DSP) advertising solution for mobile media.” GroupM said in a press release that the “new DSP mobile initiative uses ad decisioning technology developed in conjunction with Boston-based DataXu. Read more. DataXu CEO Mike Baker discussed the deal with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publicis Upfront With Microsoft Falls Behind As part of the agreement to buy Razorfish from Microsoft, Publicis agreed to a big media commitment through Microsoft. According to an article in Ad Age, it appears Publicis isn’t going to keep the commitment and may end […]
Walker Jacobs was recently promoted to executive vice president of Turner/ SI Digital Ad Sales. Read the release. Jacobs, who was previously svp of Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital division, has been, and remains, an outspoken critic on the use of ad networks by large publishers. AdExchanger.com: Looking over the past 12 months, what has […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Rajeev Goel is CEO of PubMatic, a publisher yield optimization company. “Data leakage” sounds nasty. The term has been used to describe what happens when 3rd parties drop pixels on publishers’ websites and gain valuable knowledge about the publisher’s audience – […]
Aaron Goldman is the founder and principal of Connectual, a digital marketing consulting firm. Goldman has written a new book called, “Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned From Google.” AdExchanger.com: Please share a little background on you and what inspired you to write this book. AG: I’ve been in a digital marketing guy for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Billings Revealed Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth reveals the contents of what he says is an internal Google document which shows recent spending by Google’s largest search advertisers. Learmonth writes, “Our review of $574 million of Google’s U.S. billings over the first half of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aol Still Googles Aol has renewed its search deal with Google for five years and PaidContent’s Staci Kramer writes, “The expanded search and content deal now covers mobile search and puts AOL’s content on YouTube.” Read more. Doug Anmuth from Barclay’s Capital writes in […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
