WPP is entering the auction for Razorfish along with Publicis according to PaidContent’s David Kaplan who writes, “For WPP’s part (or bid), despite doubts about its wherewithal to absorb such a large shop and meet Microsoft’s estimated $600 million asking price, the holding firm’s dealmakers may point out Publicis’ close relationship with Google.” Jon Fine […]
Paul McLenaghan is VP of Interactive Markets for TARGUSinfo. AdExchanger.com: What insights can you provide on current momentum at TARGUSinfo as it relates to your online services? PM: We are seeing a great deal of momentum around our AdAdvisor solution, which we launched out of private beta in February. AdAdvisor is a unique online targeting […]
Forrester is predicting that interactive marketing spend will hit nearly $55 billion by 2014, but advertising overall will decline. On ClickZ, Rocket Fuel CEO George John discusses actionable data in online display with a couple of his own fancy graphs and tables. In discussing the use of optimization tools, John makes this clever analogy: “It’s […]
It’s that time again – let’s predict the future! One of the key areas in which technology is affecting online media is in publisher yield optimization. In little over a year, companies like The Rubicon Project, AdMeld, PubMatic, YieldBuild and others have solidified the position of the yield optimizer in the online display advertising ecosystem […]
Adam Goldberg is Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder of ClearSaleing. AdExchanger.com: What trends are you seeing in your ClearSaleing clients in 2009? Can you describe momentum for ClearSaleing this year? AG: Our clients are not reducing their online ad spend—in fact, it’s increasing in many cases. ClearSaleing is helping clients tie their ad buys to […]
Young Bean Song, senior director of analytics at Microsoft’s Atlas Institute, thinks that “Web Advertising Needs Traditional Media Metrics” in his post on the Microsoft Advertising blog. Song writes that traditional media metrics are disowned by online marketers due to their own arrogance, ignorance and fear to adopt. “Any hope to unlock the two-thirds of […]
Brad Terrell is VP and General Manager of Digital Media at Netezza, a data warehouse and analytic appliances company. AdExchanger.com: What trends is Netezza seeing from its digital media clients in 2009? Can you describe momentum for Netezza this year? Revenues, deal size, vertical strengths, product interests, etc.? We see consumer attention continuing to fragment […]
Good news in the world of online advertising according to the latest quarterly forecast from Publicis’ ZenithOptimedia Group. MediaPost’s Joe Mandese writes that the agency believes that global ad spending online is gaining share in 2009 will reach 10.1%, a 1.5% increase since their last estimate in April. The Wall Street Journal takes Zenith’s spin […]
With names such as VivaKi Nerve Center, Adnetik, Varick and Cadreon, among others, agency holding companies have begun to realize strategies that align media buying with future innovation in online advertising. But, what more can be done to preserve the agency model while digital takes its deserved share of voice in cross-channel marketing strategies? It’s […]
The New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford looks at recent initiatives to overcome privacy regulation efforts in the online ad industry in “Industry Tightens Its Standards for Tracking Web Surfers.” The article coincides with a new industry report called “Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising” and sponsored by the following acronyms: IAB, DMA, AAAA, ANA, and […]
Matt Hulett is CEO of Mpire, an online advertising solutions company. AdExchanger.com: Mpire’s AdXpose appears to give advertisers insight on placement and context. Yet, the trend these days seems to put more importance on targeting audience and addressable media. In your opinion, why does AdXpose belong in today’s marketplace? MH: AdXpose belongs in today’s marketplace […]
Greg Sterling delivers the OPA case on display advertising to search marketers on Search Engine Land. In the process, Greg digs up 2008 data from Tacoda (now AOL’s property) regarding clickers. Sterling concludes, “The bottom line is that a CTR is not a good measure of consumer intent, engagement or value as a metric for […]
Tim Cadogan is CEO of OpenX, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: When you say (MediaPost 6/29) OpenX Market is more like a search marketplace whereas Right Media is more like a financial market, what do you mean? TC: Just to be clear, OpenX Market is an exchange for display advertising. Specifically, the Market is […]
Quantcast is going ahead with its efforts to offer a new opportunity for marketers who wish to leverage the millions of Quantcast pixels all over the Internet that can help provide insight into audience. Dubbed the “Media Program” (see release), here are the details from Quantcast: The Quantcast solution applies marketers’ unique customer interaction data […]
Tim Ogilvie is CEO of AdBuyer.com, an online media buying platform. AdExchanger.com: What is AdBuyer.com and how did it begin? TO: AdBuyer.com is a media buying and optimization platform for auction-based media. We provide a full suite of tools to help online marketers understand how their online advertising is performing and what they can do […]
Following up on last week’s news that Microsoft’s Admira technology would provide the backbone for Publicis/VivaKi’s entrance into the television ad exchange space (Reuters) as advertisers hunt for audience, today finds Microsoft peddling Razorfish to Publicis, supposedly one of the leading candidates to acquire the venerable Seattle-headquartered agency. The rumored acquisition price according to the […]
John Nardone is CEO of [x+1], an online buying platform and data company. AdExchanger.com: What trends is [x+1] seeing from its clients in 2009? Can you describe momentum for [x+1] this year? Revenues, deal size, vertical strengths, product interests, etc.? JN: [x+1] has been extremely fortunate in 2009 to see its client list, revenue and […]
Omnicom Media Group CEO Matt Spiegel let another crumb drop regarding what’s going on with OMG’s media buying platform strategy in an interview with MediaPost’s Laurie Sullivan. Apparently, (no surprise) behavioral targeting is in the middle of it. With the exchange model swimming in data with – potentially – real-time bidding’s help, behavioral targeting and […]
Josh Chasin is Chief Research Officer of Comscore, a marketing research company. AdExchanger.com: Of the three silos of metrics – audience measurement, campaign analysis tools and web analytics – in your opinion, which one is the toughest to grasp for the end client? JC: One the one hand, I think the most vexing thing for […]
The world of media optimization and ad exchanges is taking off. Need proof? Even AdExchanger.com is getting in the news. From Cynopsis Digital, an industry newsletter that informs readers about the latest and greatest in the digital media world, comes the following: “Media buyers, planners and advertisers interested in the growing online ad exchange model […]
Chip Hall is SVP of Sales and Marketing at Teracent, an advertising creative solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: What trends have you seen at Teracent in 2009? Can you characterize trends in revenue momentum, deal size, client verticals, consumer audience targets, etc.? CH: Teracent has seen very positive growth and revenue in 2009 and so far has […]
“Give us back our lunch money!” At times, the loathing is over the top. Certain members of the advertising ecosystem (even ad networks) have little respect for the ad network model. It’s as if someone stole the complainers’ lunch money each and every day of the year. All ad networks have ever done is provide […]
Alan Schanzer is Chief Strategy Officer, Undertone Networks, an online advertising network. AdExchanger.com: Of the four ad solutions you provide according to your website (Display Ads, Synched Ads, Undertone Video and Full Page Ads), which is the fastest growing and why? Any surprises or trends that you’ve seen in 2009? AS: We are seeing growth […]
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 […]
