Measurement

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Today, social media marketing company Buddy Media announced the acquisition of Spinback, a social commerce analytics and technology company. On Buddy Media’s company blog, Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow explains how attribution was at the center of the reason for buying Spinback: “By combining sharing and conversion tracking into one elegant technology solution, Spinback shows […]

Manu Mathew is CEO of Visual IQ, a channel marketing intelligence software company. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start with the name Visual IQ – what’s the idea there? MM: The name Visual IQ represents the two high-level concepts behind the hosted software products that comprise our IQ Intelligence Suite – the first being the world’s most accurate […]

Steve Latham is CEO of Encore Media Metrics, an attribution technology company. AdExchanger.com: So, you started the company through selling your agency, correct? SL: Yes, we are using proceeds from the sale of my agency, Spur Interactive, to fund the launch and growth of Encore Media Metrics.  While we don’t need to raise additional capital, […]

Jason Lynn is Chief Strategy Officer of interclick, an online advertising company. Lynn is responding to Hooman Radfar of Clearspring who authored a One Question piece recently – “What Is The Biggest Misconception About The Use Of Data For Ad Targeting?“… Leaders in the data targeting business uttered a collective ‘Amen’ to Hooman Radfar’s assertion […]

Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a column devoted to an answer to a single question – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is David Skinner, SVP Client Solutions / Account Management at [x+1], an online targeting platform. He recently answered the […]

Wes Nichols is CEO of Marketshare, a provider of predictive models and software for marketing. AdExchanger.com: What is the problem MarketShare solves today? WN: The problem MarketShare solves is actually an age-old one made even more complex with the digital era:  where and how should I invest to drive sales for my company?   I’m not […]

On Tuesday, tag management firm TagMan announced that it had closed $2+ million in Series A investment led by venture capital firm Greycroft Partners. TagMan founder and CEO Paul Cook said in the release, “We will put the new funding to immediate use in releasing version 3 of our technology, building out our infrastructure to […]

Below is a sample of industry reaction to yesterday’s acquisition of attribution analytics company ClearSaleing by e-Commerce infrastructure and services company GSI Commerce. Read the release. Justin Evans, SVP Audience Insights, Collective GSI’s move into the advertising analytics arena emphasizes the trend among advertisers to take advantage of increasingly sophisticated ROI metrics. As data sources […]

Petsky Prunier provided investment banking services in today’s announced acquisition of ClearSaleing by GSI Commerce. Sanjay Chadda, Partner & Managing Director at Petsky Prunier discussed the transaction. AdExchanger.com: How long was the deal in the making? What’s your view on M&A momentum currently? SC: As a high profile company and given its #1 ranking in […]

GSI Commerce announced today that its Global Marketing Services division has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based, attribution analytics firm ClearSaleing. From the GSI Commerce release: “The acquisition of ClearSaleing broadens and deepens the division’s portfolio of marketing services offerings and overall market position. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.” Read more. Chris Saridakis, CEO, GSI Global […]

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James Deaker recently joined Yahoo! as VP Data Solutions and Insights after leaving his position at Microsoft as Director, Monetization Excellence.  He discussed his new role and publisher strategy with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Tell me about your new role and why it’s a good fit for you. JD: I’m joining Yahoo! because I’m amazed by Yahoo!’s […]

Eugene Becker is Director, Analytics of the Media Innovation Group (The MIG), WPP Group’s proprietary technology firm. AdExchanger.com: What is your perspective on the attribution challenge within the broader context of measurement and analytics? EB: We see the lack of a viable attribution metric as a central, if not the central dilemma facing digital marketers. […]

Jeff Zwelling is CEO and Co-Founder of Convertro, a marketing metrics attribution company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Convertro trying to solve? JZ: Marketers today are in large part “flying blind” when it comes to properly allocating their marketing dollars among their various marketing channels. I say this because most advertisers are relying upon outdated tracking […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Reports Q4 And Talks Display Google reported its q4 2009 earnings after the market closed yesterday and though the company made an impressive profit, it wasn’t as much as some expected. Paul Kedrosky posts JP Morgan’s thoughts on the results on his blog […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Top Ad Networks For September ComScore released its top 50 ad networks and web properties by U.S. reach in September. 24/7 Real Media continues to climb the ad network charts with WPP Group’s demand at its back as over 150 million U.S. unique users […]

Christine Watkins is CEO of INVISION INC., a provider of advertising sales management systems to the broadcast and cable network industries. The advertiser is looking for better attribution models across all forms of advertising these days including TV.  Please discuss INVISION’s transition from a primary focus on tools for traditional television ad sales to an […]

Dave Morgan is CEO of Simulmedia, a television marketing company that optimizes the effectiveness of “on-air” program promotion. AdExchanger.com: Have you tired of the online ad business, where you’ve already had success (Tacoda, Real Media)? Confess – don’t you miss banner ads? What prompted you to start Simulmedia? DM: I am not tired of the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ComScore and Omniture (and Adobe) Fresh off being acquired by Adobe, Omniture announced a new partnership with ComScore aimed at unifiying reporting of website analytics and audience measurement. Is this another step toward a better attribution model? It can’t hurt. Jonathan Mendez tweets that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. First Half Online Ad Spend Down Ad Age’s Nat Ives looks at the wreck that has been in world of media in the first half of 2009 in comparison to 2008 according to a study by Nielsen. The online good news was cable spend […]

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adgregate Markets Selling Domain: adexchange.com In an AdExchanger.com exclusive, Henry Wong, CEO of Adgregate Markets (AdExchanger.com Q&A) said the Company is selling the domain “adexchange.com“. Wong said, “Adgregate Markets is divesting non-core assets, which includes AdExchange.com, that are non-essential to its core ShopAds business.” […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Web Trends Eats WideMile For Its Insights Analytics provider, WebTrends, has bought multi-variate testing and site optimization company, WideMile for an unknown sum. Release here. Analytics companies are broadening their tool set to discover actionable, consumer insights for their clients. A blog post just […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital GRPs for Brand Marketers Comscore and Microsoft announced today that they are “develop[ing] a digital media planning solution, named the Reach and Frequency Planner (RF Planner), which will allow brand advertisers to predict reach, frequency and audience composition at the ad placement level.” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Looking to build a startup that makes a Facebook valuation look pedestrian? The big “opportunity” (problem!) in online display advertising is aggregating empirical data showing display’s benefits. For now, they are fairly hidden. Yet, the inevitable success of the ad exchange model and evolution into premium inventory trading depends, in part, on better engagement analytics […]

As we said back in September, the online display advertising business is sorely in need of an analytics package showing that the exposure of online display ads to the consumer can be tied directly to the performance of other campaigns including search – organic or paid. We even postulated that ComScore might be in a […]