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 […]
Chad Little is CEO of FetchBack, a retargeting company. AdExchanger.com: From your blog, I see that you’ve delivered $64.5 million in revenue for your clients – is that in the past two years? Care to elaborate in terms of net revenues to FetchBack, average deal size, type of clients, etc.? No – that’s ($64.5 million) […]
Robbie Hills is CEO of GroupM Search businesses across the Asia Pacific region. GroupM is the parent company to WPP media agencies including MAXUS, MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia and Mindshare. AdExchanger.com: How would you characterize the state of the online media business in the Asia region currently? Any affects from the global economic slowdown? Any surprising strengths? […]
AdExchanger.com: How important is the display segment to Forbes? Can you share recent momentum in online display ad revenue at Forbes? Any verticals showing particular strength or weakness given the economic slump? JS: Display is very important to our business model. Of late the recession has taken a toll and we are not seeing the same type […]
Keeping you abreast of the latest exchange news… In the New York Times, Stephanie Clifford wrote a piece entitled, “Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise” featuring the ad exchange model’s data-intensive environment with real world examples. Of note: according to NYTimes.com today – two days later – this article is still among the top […]
Yes, it’s that time again. More ad exchange-related news! Kevin Lee sings the praises of search retargeting on ClickZ and encourages everyone to take advantage of Yahoo!’s offering. We could not agree more that this type of retargeting hold great promise as a killer behavioral targeting solution – especially if Google can unleash its enormous […]
Rajeev Goel is CEO of PubMatic. AdExchanger.com: What will demand‐side optimization provide for the advertiser/agency? Can you quantify performance improvements an advertiser might see in comparison to futures or reserved bidding/buying? Real time demand‐side optimization will provide advertisers and agencies with the ability to better target individual web users with the most relevant and timely […]
In a memorable clip from 1977 film classic Annie Hall, a young Jeff Goldblum says his one and only line into the phone, “Hello? I lost my mantra.” Transporting ahead Star Trek-style to 2009, publishers struggle with their mantra saying, “Hello? I lost my CPMs.” Demand-side voice, Rob Griffin of Media Contacts – makers of […]
What a week! Great insight from a growing list of key industry figures in the ad exchange space on AdExchanger.com. Heady advertising technology excitement from the past week’s Ad:Tech San Francisco show. Apparently, Ad:Tech has not lost any steam in spite of the economy if the Twitter buzz is to be believed. There is a […]
Tom Shields is Chief Executive Officer of yield optimization company, Yieldex. AdExchanger.com: How many participating publishers? TS: We have announced Martha Stewart Omnimedia as our first publisher partner. We are currently engaged with a number of other large publishers that we are not publicizing yet. What is your target publisher market? Can any publisher participate? […]
Uber Advertising, in partnership with Adelaide and Kantar, launched a first-of-its-type custom attention metric score for its platform advertisers.
Alphabet reported on Wednesday that its total Q3 revenue was $102.3 billion, up 16% year over year, while net profit increased by a third to $35 billion.
Meta says “trust the machine” – but marketers are finding out that automated ad platforms, including Advantage+, don’t always know best.
Prebid’s future is up for grabs as the open-source project grows apart from the IAB Tech Lab, the industry’s self-appointed standards authority.
Last week, after nearly six years of development and delays, Google officially retired its Privacy Sandbox.
Which means it’s time for a memorial service.
AWS RTB Fabric offers ad tech platforms more streamlined integrations with ecosystem and infrastructure partners, allegedly lower latency compared to the public internet and discounts on data transfers.
