Measurement

Many video ad technology players have a sell-side component — think Tremor Video, YuMe, Videology, BrightRoll, SpotXchange and Adap.tv. TubeMogul is one of the few with an exclusive focus on the buy side. TubeMogul has staked its claim as a video demand-side platform, and as such its relationship is chiefly with the agency, not the […]

Demandbase used to focus exclusively on optimizing website content based on the company an inbound visitor works for. As we noted late last year, it has expanded to push that IP-based business data into RTB buys. In an update on the business, CEO Chris Golec tells AdExchanger about 25% of customers have used the new […]

WPP Group digital agency Possible hopes to bulk up its targeting and performance-based advertising abilities to bridge earned and paid media channels by partnering with Google’s social technology tool, Wildfire. Read the release. Jason Burby, Possible’s chief performance marketing officer, cited Wildfire’s recent integrations with Google Analytics and DoubleClick as the chief reasons the agency […]

A few members of the group charged with creating the spec for a browser-based Do Not Track function have signaled their displeasure with the process by supporting a “contingency plan” that would effectively end the two years of talks without an outcome. But it’s far from clear whether they can find consensus to push that […]

With a media background at McCann Erickson and venture financing raised this past April from Redpoint Ventures and WPP Digital among others, Miaozhen Systems CEO Wei Zhu sounds like your typical “Western” entrepreneur. Calling his 310-person firm “the Nielsen of China,” Zhu claims Beijing-based Miaozhen already has 80% market share for online measurement – with DoubleClick […]

Automotive data company Polk collects and analyzes data related to registration and title information, new vehicle transactions from all the major manufacturers, and even vehicle financing data. Working with companies like Datalogix, with whom Polk has a years-long partnership, the company is able to bring this offline data into the online world. “Polk has some […]

You know viewability is a big deal when rivals in a given space band together to promote a new open source standard around it. That’s what’s happening in online video as TubeMogul organizes a group of fellow video ad tech vendors including BrightRoll, Innovid, LiveRail and SpotXchange to support OpenVV (or Open VideoView), a viewability […]

It’s no secret that the mobile app market has exploded. Roughly 224 million people use mobile apps on a monthly basis, compared to 221 million desktop users, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. Advertisers are eagerly reaching out to this growing audience. Enter Mobilewalla. The three-year-old startup is betting that the demand for targeting ads […]

Cross-device ad targeting provider Drawbridge will use data segments from eXelate, the companies said today. When it comes to delivering targeted ads on mobile devices, the process is more complicated than it is on a desktop PC, largely because of the inability to use cookies on a smartphone or tablet. Drawbridge gets around this challenge […]

Online retailer Indochino uses a variety of digital ad tactics to promote its custom-made men’s suits, including search and email marketing, mobile outreach and retargeting on the Facebook Exchange. Along with attribution software company Convertro, Indochino brings together all these marketing channels and determines what is working and what is most valuable, said Antonio Guzman, […]