In-image ad platform GumGum has spent the past year building up its sales team, following last October’s $7 million VC round, which brought the company a total of $11 million raised since opening its doors four years ago. Over the summer, Los Angeles-based GumGum brought in a new sales head: Robert Elder from Independent Television […]
iCrossing has rebranded its Red Aril DMP, which is positioned to serve the data management needs of brands, as Core Audience. It has also named Adam Lavelle as CEO of the unit and Peter Randazzo, an AdExchanger columnist, as president. (Both men have separate roles at iCrossing, Lavelle as chief strategy officer and Randazzo as […]
Today, on the Doubleclick Publisher blog, Google released a new report showing a range of display ad trends for publishers using its DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) ad server, the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and Google AdSense network. For example, not unexpectedly, Google’s Jonathan Bellack, Director of Product Management, Display Advertising, states, “Sell-through rates (the percentage of […]
Jonathan Shaevitz is CEO of Maxifier, an online advertising technology company, and recently spoke to AdExchanger. His company provides yield management solutions for sell-side companies and recently announced Economic Router which Shaevitz says provides a holistic look across guaranteed and non-guaranteed display media. Read the release. AdExchanger: Do you consider yourselves a sell‑side platform (SSP)? […]
It’s been more than two years since Jim Spanfeller left his post heading Forbes.com to create the Spanfeller Media Group, a content network that includes foodie site The Daily Meal and, more recently, sporting enthusiast site The Active Times. Spanfeller is well-known for his view that publishers have mistakenly tended to outsource much of their ad sales to ad […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Mario Diez is CEO of quadrantONE, a joint venture of Tribune Company, Gannett, Hearst and The New York Times Company, which offers exclusive ad inventory on news and information sites across U.S. local […]
More than any other streaming video joint venture, Hulu has never had to work too hard to resemble the TV experience – thanks to its backers, NBC Universal, News Corp., ABC, it is the primary spot for primetime viewing on the web. But as YouTube continues to build its own more “professional” channel spaces and […]
Pat Connolly is Head of Strategy, Conde Nast Ideactive, an agency unit within publisher Condé Nast. Connolly discussed his views on industry trends recently with AdExchanger.com. Click below or scroll for more: Programmatic Buying and ‘Always On’ Success Metrics for Branded Content On Marrying Offline/Online, Print/Digital What’s Hot AdExchanger: How is programmatic buying affecting your […]
Yahoo! reported its first quarter 2012 earnings today and results looked good as the company beat Wall Street estimates by about $60 million according to Reuters. From the release, “Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,077 million for the first quarter of 2012, a 1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2011. […]
From Adobe’s 2012 Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, Viacom announced “Surround Sound,” which it says is its newest advertising offering extending audience buys from on-air to online through Viacom’s well-known, web properties for MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and more. To do this, Viacom will use AudienceManager – which was previously known as […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Al Silverstein is CEO of AudienceFuel, a publisher-to-publisher, house inventory trading platform. Everyone knows that online publishers rely on ad sales to turn a profit, but very few understand how difficult it is to actually manage […]
Jonah Peretti is CEO of Buzzfeed, a social content sharing site. He recently spoke to AdExchanger about his company and the way the viral nature of the Web continues to enhance content and advertising opportunities. Click below or scroll for more: What Social Tools Do You Use? Using The Historical With Today’s RT Social Web […]
Tom Chavez is CEO of Krux, an online advertising technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with Chavez to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Krux today. Click below or scroll down for more: On The Industry Today Krux Evolution […]
Yaron Galai is CEO of Outbrain, a content discovery technology company. Click below or scroll for more: Outbrain and Content Marketing The Publisher’s RSS Feed Problem That Outbrain Solves Use Case On Links And Engagement Metrics Target Market and Market Size The Future AdExchanger: Can you talk a little bit about the company’s momentum? And… […]
Dennis Mortensen is CEO of Visual Revenue, a predictive analytics company for online publishing. AdExchanger: What has been the big highlight for Visual Revenue in the past year? DM: We haven’t pivoted into anything else so the vision with which we set up the company a year ago is exactly the same today. In the […]
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, a local, online advertising technology company. Wong discussed his company’s growth and offering with AdExchanger including trends he’s seeing in the local advertising marketplace. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the trends you’re seeing today which you didn’t expect when you started the company? When we first started the company, […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tom Shields, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Yieldex, an analytics tools provider for sell-side, yield optimization. Selling digital used to be easy: how big is the budget, and do they want the News section, or […]
“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Peter Randazzo is Chief Technology Officer of iCrossing, a global, digital marketing agency. Perhaps no single technology has as much potential to disrupt the advertising ecosystem of online publishing as Real Time Bidding (RTB). For an imperfect but simple 30 second […]
Jeremy Steinberg is VP, Digital Sales & Business Development, FOX News Network. Late last week, Steinberg offered an update to AdExchanger on his company’s efforts in the online audience buying space. AdExchanger.com: Last May, you discussed with AdExchanger.com some of the things you were doing on the product side to address audience buying. How has […]
This week, the Online Publishers Association (OPA) , a not-for-profit trade organization that represents large, online publishers, will gather leaders together from the online publishing community for its annual summit in Coral Gables, Florida. Pam Horan is President of the OPA and she discussed the OPA’s upcoming event with AdExchanger.com as well as her association’s […]
Today, The Weather Channel Companies announced that David Kenny, former President of Akamai and CEO of Publicis agency Digitas, would become its Chairman and CEO and succeed Mike Kelly who will remain as a special adviser to Kenny and the Board. According to a press release, the owners of The Weather Channel Companies (Bain Capital, […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pam Horan, President of the Online Publishers Association, a not-for-profit trade organization that represents online publishers In the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, a fitting animal characterized by being driven, unafraid of […]
Last Thursday, Aol and Bonnier’s Parenting Group announced a deal which will bring Parenting.com content to Aol owned and operated sites as well as leverage Aol’s salesforce and ad products on behalf of Parenting.com’s own site. Read more. Ned Brody, CRO and President of AOL Advertising, discussed the deal. Click below or scroll for more: […]
In November, Guardian announced a partnership with Operative where Guardian’s “print and digital media businesses, including guardian.co.uk, as well as The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, will all be running from the same platform – Operative.One – in the first half of 2012.” Read the release. Andy Beale, Technology Director at Guardian News and Media, […]
Claiming an “average 20% revenue lift for adopted recommendations”, Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange announced this week that it was allowing its ad exchange publishers to set price floors as well as the ability to take advantage of new CPM pricing recommendations. Read the blog post. DoubleClick Ad Exchange’s product management director, Scott Spencer, answered questions […]
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: […]
Today, PubMatic announced that Kirk McDonald (LinkedIn), who was President, Digital of Time Inc, has joined the company as its President. Read the release. McDonald discussed his new role and the larger publisher landscape with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Why is PubMatic the right next step for you? KM: Here’s the truth. I believe that the industry […]
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 […]
We asked representatives of the publisher side of the ad ecosystem the following question: “What solutions are still needed for today’s premium, digital publisher?” Below, Jay Wright, Yield Management Group Leader at Cars.com, provides his ideas. “The barriers from a premium publisher perspective are not really technological constraints. Naturally, sales channel conflict is a huge […]
We asked representatives of the publisher side of the ad ecosystem the following question: “What solutions are still needed for today’s premium, digital publisher?” Below, Benjamin Kneen, Interactive Media Manager at WebMD, provides his ideas. “Plenty! The first thing that comes to mind though is a robust toolset to manage data leakage. Cookies are lifeblood […]
Google won’t have to break up its ads business after being declared an online monopolist. Meanwhile, Amazon faces a lawsuit from the FTC alleging that it charged advertisers more than necessary for ecommerce ads.
Buy-side experts said it’s another example of a Big Tech platform taking advantage of the lack of transparency built into programmatic ad auctions. And they’re not optimistic change is coming.
This week, the Commerce Media Newsletter catches up with a startup from outside the world of data-driven advertising, but with an interesting position when it comes to ecommerce advertising. That’s Clearco, a Canadian fin tech company founded in 2015.
Halo Collar, a dog collar brand with direct-to-consumer origins, is preparing for its retail expansion by honing its first-party data strategy and incrementality measurement.
The company is launching an accelerator program to help tech vendors pitch their solutions in a way that makes sense to advertisers.
TWC is building a monetization model that treats weather as both a contextual and an emotional signal, and it’s using AI sales agents to bring it to market.
