Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Transparency On Exchanges On ClickZ, Hill Holiday SVP, Director of Digital Media, Adam Cahill looks at the ad exchange space and says its time for more transparency so that buyers can see what website they’re getting. To date, many large publishers fear that unmasking […]
Turn announced today that Bill Demas has been promoted to CEO of Turn, Inc., an online advertising platform and network company. Jim Barnett, who stepped down from the CEO role, will remain as Chairman. According to the company, this secession plan has been in the works for a while and Demas has been “deeply involved” […]
Michael Rubenstein, who managed the ongoing operations of Google Doubleclick’s ad exchange product (AdX), has joined cloud-computing and real-time advertising infrastructure company, AppNexus. Rubenstein told AdExchanger.com that after 3.5 years of growing AdX, it seemed like the right time to pursue his entrepreneurial instincts. At AppNexus, he’ll become the company’s President. He added that his […]
Helene Monat is President, AdSafe Media, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What challenge does AdSafe Media solve for marketers? HM: AdSafe Media was founded with the goal of helping brands implement safe and successful digital advertising strategies. While many brands and agencies have adopted best practices for advertising on the Internet, the complexities of the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdSense Thru DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange! It’s official! Well, almost. The AdSense blog announced late Tuesday that ad networks will now be buying AdSense inventory through an open auction. That can only mean one thing: Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange – AdEx 2.0 – lives. From […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic Hires Peter Kafka of All Things D reports that Andrew Rutledge, who had been in charge of publisher sales for DoubleClick for the past year, has moved to yield optimizer, PubMatic, and assumed a similar role. (Read the release.) Josh Wetzel from eBay […]
George John is CEO of Rocket Fuel, Inc., an online advertising network. AdExchanger.com: How do you see the role of the ad network evolving over the next 12-24 months? Will ad network arbitrage disappear? It has been hyped that the ad network marketplace is overly crowded with more than 400 players. But when you take […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lookery Closes Its Doors No more Lookery. CEO Scott Rafer announced from the Lookery blog that the Company is winding down operations. Rafer offers a post mortem of regrets and/or mis-steps that he believes, if avoided, could have led to a different conclusion such […]
Payam Zamani is CEO of Reply.com, a lead generation marketplace. AdExchanger.com: Reply.com started in lead generation. Why did you transition the business into an exchange and marketplace? PZ: Until the summer of 2006, Reply.com was focused on lead generation for the real estate and automotive markets. During that quarter, many of our largest real estate […]
Rob Friedman is Co-founder and EVP of Digital Element. AdExchanger.com: Can you layout the basic ways your clients are using Digital Element’s IP detection services? RF: Digital Element‘s customers use our IP Intelligence solutions in a variety of ways such as improving response and click-through rates through more accurate ad geotargeting; reducing advertiser variance issues […]
