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Publisher yield optimization company, PubMatic, announced a $7.5 million Series C investment round led by existing investor Helion Venture Partners. Read the release. CEO Rajeev Goel discussed the funding and plans for the company. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a bit more about how your platform will manage both direct and non-guaranteed inventory? Why the move […]

“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Martin Kelly is co-Founder and Managing Partner of UK-based agency, Infectious Media Ltd. At times I feel like the least skilled person at my company, in fact if I hired some management consultants to come in and take a look the […]

“The Video Audience” is a column written by members of the media community and focused on the evolving world of online video advertising. Today’s column is written by Teg Grenager, Founder and VP of Product at adap.tv. Online video advertising spending continues to grow rapidly, and it’s easy to see why. It’s practically the perfect […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Acquires Adroit Interactive Adroit Interactive – with multi-variate creative technology, an impressive client list and smart people – has been acquired by demand-side platform, MediaMath. Read more on ClickZ. Birds Of Feather Featured The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel looks at “birds of […]

The Rubicon Project announced that it will be launching real-time bidding functionality to a limited group of demand-side partners in addition to providing controls to Rubicon Project publishers. Read the release. Rubicon Project’s VP of Marketing Kara Weber discussed the news and its implications. AdExchanger.com: When will the beta begin with your demand-side partners and […]

AdSafe Media sponsored a new white paper by Winterberry Group called, “Beyond the Grey Areas: Transparency, Brand Safety and the Future of Online Advertising.” Looking at brand safety concerns across the industry, Winterberry Group notes it’s not so much that full transparency is the important issue for marketers, but its that they feel safe distributing […]

Sam Cox is CEO of Milabra, an advertising targeting technology company based on visual or image-based content. How did Milabra begin? Milabra the company was founded in October 2008 with the mission to bring a visual recognition technology platform to market. However, the Milbra story starts in earlier in 2007 when I met my business […]

FetchBack announced yesterday that it has launched a recommendation engine as part of its retargeting solution for advertisers. Read the release. FetchBack CEO Chad Little discussed the new product and recent developments in retargeting. AdExchanger.com: Please provide a “use case” on how FetchBack’s machine-learning technology works. The only use case we can provide now is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Ad Model Is Here At long last, we can all rest easy as Twitter has announced it’s new ad-supported, revenue model. (And, I thought it was going to be all about merch.) According to Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times, “The […]

“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 Josh McFarland, CEO of TellApart, an ecommerce data and ads platform. Dear retargeting advertiser — We all agree online advertising needs a more comprehensive metric than the click.  […]

In addition to joining its board, Jeff Pullen has been hired as President and COO of AudienceScience, the company announced. Read the release. Pullen discussed his new role and recent experience in the online advertising economy. AdExchanger.com: Where do you begin when putting together a company’s strategic roadmap?  In regards to creating AudienceScience’s roadmap, where […]

Zvika Netter is CEO of Innovid, an online video technology platform. AdExchanger.com: How has the company pivoted its strategy since its inception?  What have been some of the external factors at work? A year ago, we entered the market with an interactive video platform capable of turning any video into an engaging interactive experience. Towards […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Meeker Means More Mobile In an update to her Internet Report from late last year where she said 2010 would be the year of mobile, Mary Meeker spoke at an event at Google yesterday and delivered an “Internet Trends” report. Fear not, mobile is […]

Ad technology company, Resonate Networks, announced today that in its own study, attitudinal targeting showed up to a 4x lift when compared to demographic targeting. Read the release. Resonate Networks’ CEO Bryan Gernert discussed the finer points of attitudinal targeting. Where does attitudinal targeting fit within psychographic targeting (PeerSet, Mindset Media) and behavioral targeting? Attitudinal […]

Julian Tol is the Founder & CEO of Brandscreen Inc., a digital media trading platform. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Brandscreen solving? JT: The problem we solve is the reduction of transactional friction. Generally speaking, the industry suffers from over-complexity, with online display sales systems built on top of offline technologies. There’s poor visibility for buyers, […]

Alex Willcock is Founder and CEO of Imagini Holdings Limited, an advertising technology company and makers of VisualDNA. AdExchanger.com: Please give us a bit of history about VisualDNA.  A new company? Or  pivoting for new opportunity? AW: I founded the business because I saw an opportunity to change the relationship between commerce and consumers – […]

Continuing our look at “Transparency and Exchanges” (see post), Yahoo! Right Media‘s Senior Director of Professional Services, Megan Pagliuca, discussed her company’s view in answer to the following question: Regarding the recent dust-up between an ad network and several publishers as highlighted in Mediaweek, is more transparency needed from exchanges, for example? Or should this […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Network And Publishers In Mediaweek Following last week’s article in which Mediaweek reporter Mike Shields identified several publishers who claimed that ad network, InterCLICK, had misrepresented their inventory, this week, each is given the Mediaweek microphone to state their case. Read more. InterCLICK […]

“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 Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO at LucidMedia. Since I run a venture-backed company, I spend more time with venture capitalists than any sane person should.  Of late, one topic keeps […]

John D. Corbett, PhD is Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of aWhere, which provides an analytics platform focused on location intelligence. AdExchanger.com: Please give us a bit of history about aWhere.  A new company?  Or pivoting for new opportunity? aWhere is a ten year old company that has historically focused on the agribusiness and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Signs Of Life The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel notes that Internet ad spending has re-started its growth trajectory according to new figures from the IAB and Pricewaterhouse Coopers as Q4 2009 spending increased 2.6%. The numbers still pale in comparison to TV dollars […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

AdExchanger.com reached out to members of the digital advertising ecosystem to explore transparency and the role of exchanges, buyers and sellers of online media and their intermediaries. AdExchanger.com welcomes your comments at the end of this post. The question is as follows: Regarding the recent dust-up between an ad network and several publishers as highlighted […]

ClickForensics released a new quarterly report which looked at fraudulent activity related to user clicks and digital advertising. Read the release. And, download the report (PDF). ClickForensics CEO Paul Pellman discussed the report, its findings and methodology. AdExchanger.com: Why do you think social networks have a lower average click fraud rate than other CPC traffic […]

Following up Merkle’s presentation at the NexTargeting event hosted by [x+1] in March, demand-side platform, [x+1]. announced a broad partnership with customer relationship marketing agency, Merkle, as “the two companies will provide marketers with a truly integrated, analytics-based multichannel approach to customer acquisition.”  Read the release. John Nardone, Chairman and CEO of [x+1], discussed the […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google/AdMob Deal Review The Wall Street Journal looks at the FTC’s inquiry into Google buying AdMob. From a distance, it appears that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission might scuttle the deal due to anti-trust concerns. The WSJ reports, “[The FTC] sent letters to AdMob’s […]

It’s a rumor at this point, but an anonymous source informs AdExchanger.com that a “major” complaint is likely to be filed tomorrow by a consumer organization that “strikes at the heart of real-time bidding.” As many of you know, real-time bidding is believed to provide greater efficiency in digital display advertising by allowing advertisers and […]