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In today’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman’s “How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade” details the development of spy info company, Palantir Technologies from Palo Alto, California. The young, successful, outlier of a company has burst through the pack to provide leading edge solutions to the U.S. intelligence world. Hmm.. this sounds familiar. According to […]

Dina Kaplan is co-founder of blip.tv, an online video broadcasting company. AdExchanger.com: What does the future of online video content look like in your estimation? I think we’ll see a proliferation of three types of content online.  First, we’ll continue to have network shows available on the Web and also original Web content produced by […]

John Vincent is CEO of EyeWonder, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: How would you like to see standards evolve for in-stream video ad inventory? And in-page video ad inventory? JV: Standardization is still a work in progress for the in-stream industry, so at this point we’d really like to see more of it in […]

Rob Friedman is Co-founder and EVP of Digital Element. AdExchanger.com: Can you layout the basic ways your clients are using Digital Element’s IP detection services? RF: Digital Element‘s customers use our IP Intelligence solutions in a variety of ways such as improving response and click-through rates through more accurate ad geotargeting; reducing advertiser variance issues […]

Jason Kates is Founder and CEO of Argo Digital Solutions, Inc. and rVue.com, a digital out-of-home advertising exchange. AdExchanger.com: Can you give quantify the Digital Out-Of-Home (DOOH) reach for Argo’s rVue Exchange?   Do you think of reach in terms of networks or stores or consumers who are estimated to see particular digital media in a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Vertical State of the Display Ad Market In a piece by MediaWeek’s Mike Shields, Adify is reporting that display ad prices are rebounding and names categories such as Real Estate ($6.49 CPMs in Q2, was half that in Q4 2008) and Sports ($7.09 […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. In the last few months, those of us working in the world of ad exchanges have been bombarded by articles and discussions about issues that will directly affect our careers: privacy regulation, data sources, emerging business models and […]

Chip Hall is SVP of Sales and Marketing at Teracent, an advertising creative solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: When will the video product be available to customers and how will the revenue model work with video? CH: The video product is live today and the business model is the same as the rest of our platform (either […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Portals, Publishers and Networks, Oh My! Citing three years of data that include more than 4,800 marketing campaigns collected by WPP’s Dynamic Logic, The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel delivers the details on a new OPA study which says that large publisher’s premium (i.e. […]

Ari Brandt is CEO of Linkstorm, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Why are brand marketers attracted to Linkstorm‘s technology? AB: Measurable performance. Brand marketers require greater return from their campaigns and can’t rely on “soft metrics” like engagement and awareness anymore. In this economy, there’s too much pressure to demonstrate real ROI. What attracts […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Razorfish CEO On Acquisition CEO Bob Lord of Razorfish tells David Kaplan of PaidContent.org that he expects to fill a clear niche within VivaKi and believes that collaboration between Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia is logical. But, he expects to maintain a wall […]

Paul Cimino is CEO of Brilig, a data optimization platform. AdExchanger.com: What is Brilig? Do you consider it a technology or services company? Gotta ask – what does the name mean? PC: Brilig is a technology company with a patent pending process for data integration that provides advertising data and analysis capabilities to online publishers, […]

Caleb Hill is SVP of Product at Unicast. AdExchanger.com: Given the competitive marketplace in rich media ad serving, where do you see Unicast fitting and how do you differentiate? CH: Unicast is an established interactive advertising and marketing technology company serving more than 120 top online publishers and advertising agencies around the globe. We have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Getting Hyper With IPG Mediabrands’ Geomentum IPG’s Mediabrands announced a new unit (or practice) today called Geomentum. Check out the new site here. With graphical arrows pointing upwards on the site, Mediabrands appears to have a clear vision on the opportunity in cross-channel, local […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Karin Blake, Senior Lead of Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. An Economist piece two weeks ago centered on the popular question of how social media companies will monetize their networks and whether or not banner advertising could be their revenue savior.  The explosive growth of users […]

Another privacy piece on the behavioral ad network business has been launched – this time by The New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford. In her piece entitled, “Ads Follow Web Users, and Get Deeply Personal,” web ads are considered “Orwellian.” Good god. That’s over the top and reminiscent of other recent pieces in the media (like […]

Paul Edmondson is CEO of YieldBuild, a yield optimization company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe the momentum you’re seeing at YieldBuild. For example, how many participating publishers are a part of your optimization offering these days? We’re really happy with our growing publisher base. While we want to respect our publishers’ privacy, we can say that we […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search Retargeting Just Got Bigger Details on the forever imminent “Microsoft/Yahoo search deal” should happen today and AdAge claims that Yahoo! will run search ad sales for both companies. Also of note, according to AdAge’s Michael Learmonth, Yahoo!’s search retargeting product will now incorporate […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Networking and Behaving This Week Hello Left Coast! More conferences this week for digital advertising enthusiasts as OMMA Ad Nets is in Los Angeles on Tuesday and OMMA Behavioral is in San Francisco on Thursday.  The Right Media blog pipes up for the West Coast, “Most of the conferences tend […]

Kum Bay Yah, Muh Lord. Kum Bay Yah. Congrats to the IAB on their lunch and learn event, “An Out of the Box Lunch with AdMeld, PubMatic, The Rubicon Project and YieldBuild,” in NYC last Thursday. It was a study in how players in the advertising space – in this case, yield optimizers – can […]

Google’s much anticipated Q2 earnings report has arrived and shed some light on display advertising. Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget covered the earnings conference call and jotted down the following from the Google execs: “Display and particularly YouTube have performed very well this quarter. YouTube is now on a trajectory we’re very pleased with.” Nikesh […]

Whoa, Nellie – full house! People are getting the message about new opportunities in display ad exchanges and platforms as an impressive crowd of nearly 400 attended today’s Times Center event in NYC entitled, “Agency Demand Platforms: Art vs. Science in a Real-Time World,” co-sponsored by ContextWeb/ADSDAQ and New York’s Ad Club. After intros by […]

John Donahue is Global Director of Business Intelligence Analytics for Omnicom Media Group. AdExchanger.com: From your agency perspective, what trends are you seeing in the marketplace? JD: Digital up, TV down. I think we’re in a position where the economy is causing everyone to seize up their budgets. What’s going to be interesting is not […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]