VisualDNA announced a new product it just launched with the Mirror Newspaper Group (see it) in the UK. The company calls it a “new publisher product that effectively provides them with a form of DSP (demand-side platform) for their entire audience.” CEO Alex Willcock of Imagini Holdings Limited, an advertising technology company and makers of […]
Tom Chavez is an entrepreneur, technologist, musician, and family man residing in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of Rapt Inc., and following the acquisition of Rapt by Microsoft, he served as General Manager of Microsoft Advertising’s Online Publisher Business Group. I have received an overwhelming amount of feedback from my last missive. I […]
Amir Nathoo is CEO of WebMynd, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come for WebMynd? My co-founder, James, and I were intrigued by the power that browser apps on Firefox provided, and wanted to see how we could use them to make navigation simpler. We built several little apps and users loved […]
Tyler Fitch is Director of Yield Management at Mindjolt, an online games company. Fitch discussed recent trends he’s seeing on the publisher side. AdExchanger.com: What’s the pitch on games advertising for advertisers? Seems tough – considering people just want to play their games and not look at ads. Actually it’s quite the opposite. Our users […]
Peer39 and AdMeld announced an agreement which will allow AdMeld to “analyze every optimized impression against Peer39’s proprietary semantic data sets” to the benefit of AdMeld publishers and demand partners (ad networks, exchanges and DSPs) according to a release. Read it. Peer39 President and Founder Amiad Solomon discussed the implications of the deal. AdExchanger.com: It […]
Richard Jalichandra is President & CEO of Technorati, a social media search site and owners of Technorati Media, an ad network. AdExchanger.com: Can you take us through some of the pivots that Technorati has gone through and where it is today? RJ: Our evolution from a single site into a network serving billions of ads […]
blip.tv, an online video broadcasting company, just announced a $10.1 million round of funding led by Canaan Partners and existing investors Bain Capital Ventures. Read the release. Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder of blip.tv, discussed the new funding and upcoming plans. AdExchanger.com: What can you share regarding the funding environment today? There’s less irrational exuberance […]
Yahoo! officially opened up the pocketbook in an impressive way by acquiring Associated Content and getting its own content generating machine. Startups looking to be acquired should be jumping for joy as CEO Carol Bartz addresses her company’s content future in competition with companies like Demand Media and AOL’s Seed. There is also an important […]
Nick Wilson, CTO, Break Media, a network of properties targeting young men. AdExchanger.com What problem is Break Media solving for advertisers today? NW: We offer clients the ability to reach a targeted audience of young men by producing, promoting, and distributing clients’ original videos and branded content across the Break Media Network of sites. Additionally, we […]
Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics, a behavioral analytics platform for publishers. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Scout Analytics looking to solve? Scout Analytics helps publishers price, negotiate and deliver on ad campaigns by addressing three challenges: segmentation, accuracy, and prediction. A publisher that has deeper segmentation can create customizable packages and perform price […]
AudienceMix, a new curation startup, aims to make it more cost effective to mix and match different audience segments using only the data brands need to execute their campaigns.
On Tuesday, digital out-of-home (DOOH) ad tech startup Place Exchange was acquired by Broadsign, another out-of-home SSP.
For the uninitiated, “Glitchmas” is our name for what’s become an annual tradition when, from between roughly late October through November, Meta’s ad platform just seems to go bonkers.
The publisher-focused DOJ v. Google ad tech antitrust trial is finished. A judge will now decide the fate of Google’s sell-side ad tech business.
Competitive tensions and ad tech drama have flared all year. And this drama has rippled out into the investor circle, as evident from a slew of recent ad tech company earnings reports.
Two sources at ad tech platforms that observe programmatic bidding patterns said they’ve seen Omnicom agencies shifting spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon DSP in Q3. The Trade Desk denies any such shift.
