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This past week, the Internet Retailer Conference took place in Boston, and several hot start-ups showed their wares including attribution analytics provider, ClearSaleing, who launched their attribution management platform at the show. The good news doesn’t stop there for ClearSaleing whose co-founder and chief innovation officer, Adam Goldberg, told The Wall Street Journal that revenue […]

As the technology mashup evolves in digital advertising, the effective management of data is bringing increasing transparency and control for buyers and sellers of online media. ROI, CPA, CPM, KPI, CTR – a rapper’s dream! – and other acronyms abound as we quantify the ongoing optimization of media. But, where is the user in all […]

A new Comscore study sponsored by the OPA promotes the use of ad exchanges. No, we’re not joking. Of course, we’re pretty sure that wasn’t the OPA’s intention, but the new study says that display advertising drives interaction and conversion for brand campaigns. Thank you, OPA. Clearly, the OPA wants to promote the use of […]

Agencies took to the stage to tell their side of the online advertising story during yesterday’s OMMA Publish conference in New York City. Moderated by Break Media’s Andrew Budkofsky, the panelists included Jonathan Chin from MediaVest, Erin Matts from OMD, Kristine Munsen from Universal McCann, Donnie Williams at Horizon Media and Havas Digital’s Ed Montes. […]

Yesterday’s OMMA Publish conference in New York City was at full capacity as publishers came to swap stories and look for solutions in a down economy. One panel, ably moderated by MediaPost‘s Joe Mandese, struck at one of the core bones of contention: how to deal with ad networks. The panel, with the linkbait title, […]

Jon Aizen is COO of Dapper, an online ad network. Please share what trends Dapper is seeing on the client-side in 2009. Any vertical strengths, typical campaigns, deal size, etc.? Trends are toward performance-only metrics. We’re seeing eCPA as the meaningful metric for our customers, and we’re embracing that by offering it as a pricing […]

Ken Miller is CEO of Anchor Intelligence, a traffic quality solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: You have an impressive list of client testimonials on your site. Can you discuss recent momentum at Anchor Intelligence? Any impact from the economy? KM: In the past two quarters, we’ve seen the number of inbound inquiries into Anchor Intelligence increase by […]

Trevor Wright is CEO of DogTime Media. AdExchanger.com: Does Adify still provide the technology “backbone” of Dogtime? How has that relationship evolved? DogTime leveraged Adify’s technology backbone to launch our vertical community, but quickly evolved beyond their capabilities and have been independent of Adify for more than a year. Are advertisers buying from DogTime Media […]

Collective Media hired former Yahoo! automotive category director, Brian Elliott, to lead its Detroit office. Which got us thinking… Isn’t the domestic U.S. auto industry on life support? Haven’t they had their marketing budgets reduced dramatically? What is Collective Media thinking? In response, Joe Apprendi, Collective CEO told AdExchanger.com, “Yes, the auto industry in aggregate, […]

David Smith is CEO of Mediasmith, a digital advertising media agency. AdExchanger.com: What trends can you share with us regarding the media buying you’re doing on behalf of clients today? DS: There is a lot of change happening in the area of digital media strategy, planning and message distribution. Please notice that we’ve walked away […]

Vertical ad network mania has reached into the Village of New York City as AdWeek’s Mike Shields details the new Village Voice vertical ad network titled, “Voice Local Network.” Within the NYC-branded network is Lockhart Steele’s triumvirate of local blogs – Curbed, Eater and Racked – with its young, influential consumer audience as well as […]

David Koretz is CEO of BlueTie, Inc., an email and collaboration services provider and Adventive, Inc., an online ad solutions company. What media-related trends have you observed in 2009 at BlueTie and at Adventive? Vertical strengths/weaknesses, pricing pressure, etc.? At Adventive we are seeing large publishers put an increased emphasis on creating unique products for […]

Rob Hof of BusinessWeek brings the lens of mainstream media to display ad exchanges in his article, “Google’s Grab for the Display Ad Market.” As the title partially suggests, Google’s display ad business and industry perceptions about upcoming updates to its exchange strategies are the focus. In the article, industry pundits have a decidedly negative […]

Greg Smith is COO at Neo@Ogilvy, a full-service digital and direct media company and division of OgilvyOne Worldwide. AdExchanger.com: What trends are you seeing on the client-side in 2009? How will 2010 take shape in your opinion? GS: Clients are discovering ROI, metrics, data. 2010 will look more like 2008 than 2009. Does media deserve […]

Tuesday was OMMA’s NYC version of its Metrics and Measurement conference. Like Digiday on the previous day, this was another sold-out conference – and not just filled with vendors either. In the OMMA crowd were company managers looking to better harness the mountains of data that increasingly makes their jobs one of the most challenging […]

Chad Little is CEO of FetchBack, a retargeting company. AdExchanger.com: From your blog, I see that you’ve delivered $64.5 million in revenue for your clients – is that in the past two years? Care to elaborate in terms of net revenues to FetchBack, average deal size, type of clients, etc.? No – that’s ($64.5 million) […]

Robbie Hills is CEO of GroupM Search businesses across the Asia Pacific region. GroupM is the parent company to WPP media agencies including MAXUS, MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia and Mindshare. AdExchanger.com: How would you characterize the state of the online media business in the Asia region currently? Any affects from the global economic slowdown? Any surprising strengths? […]

At Digiday Target yesterday, it was all about, well, targeting – and harnessing data to drive consumers, conversions and awareness. Audience targeting and addressable media are the new standards/industry buzzwords. Underscoring the targeting opportunity were members of the “The Elephant in The Room: Who IS The Target?” panel which included Jim Keyt of Unilever, Darren […]

At yesterday’s Digiday Networks conference in New York City, members of “The Next Generation Ad Network” panel prognosticated on the future of the network model, pre-cursor to the exchange. Bant Breen, President of IPG’s Initiative Worldwide added his insight on ad networks as well as a bit more detail on Cadreon, the latest entrant in […]

Joe Apprendi is CEO of Collective Media. AdExchanger.com: Any trends/momentum you can share in your display ad business? JA: There are two major trends that developed in 2008 and are really accelerating in 2009. The first is the shift from site-specific to audience-centric buying among brand advertisers. Agencies/Advertisers are realizing there are many ways to […]

Andy Monfried is CEO of Lotame, an advertising solutions provider for the social web. AdExchanger.com: You recently stated on your blog that “Data is King” and go on to argue that – over time – purchase intent data (i.e. ecommerce, search) is less valuable than the data derived from a social profile/graph. Search marketers must have […]

Mark Walsh writes about Digg’s new social ad units which consist of a sponsored story that appears on Digg’s coveted home page which users can vote up or down. It will be interesting to see how avid Digg users react. Could the new Digg Ad be a part of the exchange model someday? – Sure, […]

AdExchanger.com: How important is the display segment to Forbes? Can you share recent momentum in online display ad revenue at Forbes?  Any verticals showing particular strength or weakness given the economic slump? JS: Display is very important to our business model.  Of late the recession has taken a toll and we are not seeing the same type […]

Today’s linkage on ad exchange-related news… Rubicon Project released a new report on Q1 advertising CPMs and trends in display. Among the findings, Joe Mandese of MediaPost reports that “Rubicon estimated that the volume of display advertising inventory sold through advertising networks grew 150% between the two quarters, and that “same site” sales actually grew […]

Oren Netzer is CEO of DoubleVerify, an online media verification company. AdExchanger.com: In your recent release highlighting your $3.5 million raise, you noted your impressive list of new clients. Can you provide us more detail about the trends you’re seeing in campaigns, creatives and verticals in which DoubleVerify‘s technology is being implemented? Does the economic […]

Keeping you abreast of the latest exchange news… In the New York Times, Stephanie Clifford wrote a piece entitled, “Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise” featuring the ad exchange model’s data-intensive environment with real world examples. Of note: according to NYTimes.com today – two days later – this article is still among the top […]

Don Mathis is CEO of Epic Advertising, an online performance marketing company AdExchanger.com: How has Epic Advertising fared during the economic downturn?   Please share any strengths or weaknesses you’re seeing. What types of client campaigns are thriving – or not?  How is creative evolving? DM: Epic Advertising has fared well due to our fundamental performance-based […]

Yes, it’s that time again. More ad exchange-related news! Kevin Lee sings the praises of search retargeting on ClickZ and encourages everyone to take advantage of Yahoo!’s offering. We could not agree more that this type of retargeting hold great promise as a killer behavioral targeting solution – especially if Google can unleash its enormous […]

Meir Zohar is CEO of data exchange, eXelate. Ad Exchanger.com: Can you provide insight on recent momentum at eXelate?    Any observations due to the recent economic slump? MZ: We’re experiencing strong growth on both sides of the eXelate Targeting eXchange – buyers (ad networks and agencies) and sellers (publishers) of data. Since we’re in […]

Aaron Finn is CEO of AdReady, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Can you update us on current revenue and client momentum? Has the economy affected your business? Any surprises or trends you can share? AF: We keep growing our client base and increasing revenue, and we’re still hiring to keep up with demand. The biggest […]