Platforms

Sam Decker is CEO of Mass Relevance, a social content management system for vertical channels. He spoke to AdExchanger.com recently about his company and industry trends. AdExchanger: First, please share a bit about your background… SD: Sure. The first third of my career was in startups in the Bay Area. Some were media startups, some […]

Seth Dallaire is Yahoo! Vice President of Sales.  He discussed the latest news regarding demand-side platforms and Yahoo!’s decision to require Right Media Exchange seats for advertisers who wish to purchase Yahoo! non-guaranteed, remnant display inventory through the exchange. News broke last week that Yahoo! would make this a requirement going forward – but today, the […]

Last week, several demand-side platform (DSP) companies were informed that their advertiser clients could no longer buy Yahoo! remnant, display ad inventory through their DSP seat on the Right Media Exchange (RMX). Instead, those advertisers will need to get their own seats on RMX if they want to buy Yahoo! remnant display ads. Read more. […]

The other shoe appears to be falling. If you’re a demand-side platform or ad network on Right Media Exchange, you may not be allowed to buy Yahoo! Class 2/remnant inventory on behalf of your client unless your advertiser gets its very own seat on RMX. (Having an advertiser get its own seat is not easy […]

Mark Rabe is CEO of Sojern, a travel data and media company with exclusive partnerships with several major airlines. Adexchanger.com: So, in some ways, are you building an Orbitz competitor with Sojern? MR: The answer is no. We are partnered with our airline partners – and it’s the majority of the large domestic airlines, who […]

It’s only been 60 or so days since All Things D’s Peter Kafka broke the story, but Microsoft, Yahoo! and Aol made it official in a press release: “The agreements will allow ad networks operated by Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL to offer each other’s premium nonreserved online display inventory to their respective advertising customers.” And […]

It’s easy. It’s hard. It’s complex. It’s too complex. Opinions vary widely on the platform buying capabilities available to the demand-side as it looks to exploit opportunity in the data-driven ad ecosystem. AdExchanger.com asked a selection of demand-side executives to share how they think platform buying is performing today. Specifically, the question is: “What’s the […]

Steve Fletcher, managing director at boutique investment bank GCA Savvian, helped broker the Yahoo!/interclick deal and was lead financial adviser to interclick. Fletcher discussed the transaction and its particulars. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the key challenges of bringing together two public companies like Yahoo! and interclick? SF: It’s always difficult to combine two public […]

PRESS RELEASE

Jeff Dittus is CEO of Campaign Grid, a data-driven ad platform for political campaigns. AdExchanger.com: How did Campaign Grid begin? JD: The founding of CampaignGrid was an accident.  My partner Rich Masterson was asked to run for Congress in the suburbs of Philadelphia.  As he was putting his campaign together he priced out how much […]

Yesterday’s most highly-anticipated presentation of the day came and went like a dusty, desert breeze as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg offered what amounted to a sales pitch at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. It appeared Facebook and Sandberg didn’t understand the audience: leading brand marketers from around the globe […]

As data is appended to display media in real-time auctions, certain “old” ways of doing digital business may warrant a re-examination. AdExchanger.com thought “first look” might be one of those tactics that deserves review. But before we begin, don’t know what “first look” is? Into the weeds we go… Let’s say you’re a publisher and […]

Yahoo! reported its third quarter revenue and earnings for 2011 today. From the release: “Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,072 million for the third quarter of 2011, a 5 percent decrease from the third quarter of 2010. Income from operations decreased 6 percent to $177 million in the third quarter of 2011, […]

Ned Brody is Chief Revenue Officer and President of AOL Advertising. Brody sat down with AdExchanger.com and discussed Aol Advertising strategy and momentum. AdExchanger.com: Can you update us on the latest regarding Aol’s technology stack strategy? NB: The first time we sat down, I said that Aol will be focused on providing a technology stack […]

Matt Spiegel is the new CEO of Tap.Me, an in-game advertising technology company. Read the release. Previously, Spiegel was CEO of Annalect Marketplaces and Omnicom Media Group Digital. He discussed the new role and its implications with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: What attracted you to the start‑up world? MS: It’s interesting. I think most people have gotten […]

Anupam Gupta is President and CEO of Mixpo, a video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: How did your experience in product management at Microsoft prepare you for Mixpo? AG: Broadly speaking, it taught me to listen closely to customers and partners for insights and to use that input as the north star for our value proposition […]

Curtis Hougland is founder of Attention, a full-service social media marketing agency and part of MDC Partners. Hougland discusses his agency, social media marketing and more. AdExchanger.com: In social media, what is the unique approach to addressing audiences that isn’t present in other digital or traditional channels? CH: We can actually engage in conversations, which […]

With the iPad’s strong growth and now the recent announcement by Amazon to provide a lower-end, $199 Kindle Fire tablet, marketers may need to start thinking about how the tablet – and its audience – fits in their plans going forward. With that in mind, AdExchanger.com asked a group of industry experts from the mobile […]

Aol and VivaKi announced a new partnership which will look to unearth new formats for online video advertising and will be part of VivaKi’s “The Pool” initiative. Read the release. Erin Clift, SVP of Branded Experiences at Aol, discussed the deal as well as her own role that addresses both marketer and agency constituencies. AdExchanger.com: […]

Bryan Jones is CEO of Collider Media, a provider of targeting technology for mobile advertising. AdExchanger.com: Can you share a bit of background on you and how you got involved in Collider Media? BJ: Sure.  I’ve been in mobile for about 4 years now, having been a corporate attorney before that.  It’s been an exciting […]

The highly-anticipated announcement by Yahoo! this morning has come and gone – there’s still no official word on the Aol, Yahoo! and Microsoft agreement to sell each other’s data-driven, non-guaranteed inventory through still-undisclosed methods. But, Yahoo! did announce that it’s going to go beyond its current, video news distribution deal with ABC News and leverage […]

Last week, Datran Media and CONTEXTWEB agreed to merge their companies into PulsePoint, which describes itself as an “integrated digital media technology platform.” Read the release announcing the merger. Patrick Vogt, Executive Chairman, and Tim Murray, CEO, of PulsePoint discussed the merger and the future for the new company. AdExchanger.com: What was the trigger for […]

Yahoo!’s recent woes have been well-chronicled as display advertising performance has lagged industry averages, several talented executives have exited and now CEO Carol Bartz has been fired – to name a few “challenges.” But, plenty of assets – if not opportunity – still remain in tact for Yahoo!. So, AdExchanger.com reached out to a selection […]

Last Thursday, Medialets announced that it would extend its mobile rich media capabilities from mobile apps to the mobile web. Read the release. PHD Mobile Director Sal Candela discussed mobile from his media agency vantage point including rich media needs across mobile app and web environments. AdExchanger.com: Has mobile finally “hit” at PHD? SC: I […]

Zaw Thet is CEO of 4INFO, a mobile advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What do you think is being misunderstood about mobile advertising today? ZT: I would say there are two key things. One is the lack of what I would call “traditional” performance dollars – CPA, CPC-type dollars that have long supported online advertising. We […]

Seth Dallaire is VP, Global Agencies/Accounts and Sales at Yahoo!. Dallaire discussed industry trends and Yahoo!’s plans to address the agency in an interview with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Do you feel that agency trading desks are more of an ad network these days? Or are they an agent of the client? SD:  I see them as […]

Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Eric Brown is co-founder of mobile display advertising company Media Armor. Almost a year ago as part of a survey on the mobile industry, Michael Nevins outlined the display advertising channel. The fuss in mobile most recently has had a particular […]

In spite of recent announcements that Facebook has surpassed Google and Yahoo! for overall display impressions, ecosystem feedback suggests there’s a difference between what a Facebook or social display impression (Twitter, StumbleUpon, etc.) offers and that of a “regular” display impression – i.e. through a standard IAB-sized display ad unit. With this challenge in mind, […]

Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Bob Walczak is the former CEO of mobile ad network Ringleader Digital and currently runs Bump Equity, LLC. The latest change in Apple IOS 5 of eliminating the use of the UDID is a huge shift for the mobile application ad […]

David Brussin is CEO of Monetate, a provider of testing, targeting, and personalization services for websites. Earlier this month, the company announced a $15 million Series B funding round led by OpenView Venture Partners. Read more on TechCrunch. AdExchanger.com: Is the focus of the company eCommerce? DB:  We’re actually not focused on eCommerce. Our mission […]