Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ComScore and Omniture (and Adobe) Fresh off being acquired by Adobe, Omniture announced a new partnership with ComScore aimed at unifiying reporting of website analytics and audience measurement. Is this another step toward a better attribution model? It can’t hurt. Jonathan Mendez tweets that […]
Matt Greitzer is VP and Global Discipline Lead of Search Marketing at Razorfish. MG: I think it represents an industry tipping point. Google has already proven that they are the lead player in auction-based ad monetization. I think everyone is excited to see how they can apply their expertise to the next generation of biddable […]
Robbie Hills, CEO Asia Pacific, GroupM Search, a unit of WPP Group. The impact of Google DoubleClick’s Exchange is going to very much depend on the ability to behaviorally target, the markets they launch it in across the APAC region and the volume of inventory they can push through. Also if agencies are forced to […]
David Smith is CEO of Mediasmith, a digital advertising media agency. The biggest impact will be the increased credibility and volume to the Exchange category. It should also give a big boost to the technology platforms like Turn, MediaMath and Invite which agencies are increasingly using to combine exchange purchasing with targeting options. Our concern […]
Frank Weishaupt is VP North American Marketplaces at Yahoo!. One reason I love this business is that it’s always evolving. Change is essential to success in online advertising…especially when it comes to ad exchanges. As the needs of ad networks, publishers, agencies and advertisers continue to change, exchanges have had to stay ahead of every […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. TV Clicking Newteevee’s Chris Albrecht reports that Cablevision will be the first to have TV ads that have a “click here to learn more” button that TV viewers can “click” with their channel changer/clicker/sword. I’ve noticed this functionality on Time Warner’s service in New […]
Jason Glickman is CEO of Tremor Media, an online video advertising network. Adexchanger.com: On your website, you identify your #1 ranking in premium video views according to Comscore. What do you mean by “premium”? And, is there such a thing as non-premium video ad inventory? If so, does Tremor Media fill non-premium inventory and is […]
John Giuliani is Chairman and CEO of Dotomi, an online marketing agency. AdExchanger.com: What’s been happening at Dotomi in 2009? Any trends you can share on the client-side? Dotomi is very fortunate to be experiencing double digit growth in 2009 despite macro economic trends and a general decrease in overall advertising revenue. Marketers are looking […]
DataXu came out of “stealth mode” today and stormed the stage at Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch 50 talent show. Among the nuggets to come from the presentation was a 150-200% improvement over “traditional” (digital) media buying methods using the DataXu real-time-bidding enabled platform according to presenting DataXu CEO Mike Baker. Baker also announced DataXu’s first major […]
Antony Taylor is VP of Display Platforms at Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange. AdExchanger.com: It feels like it’s very early in the understanding of display ad exchanges especially as it relates to feedback from attendees at recent conferences. AT: After a recent exchange panel, an attendee said to me, “None of it. I got none of […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. New demand-side platforms now make it possible to execute buying strategies and purchase directly across wide swaths of inventory, cutting out the middle-man aggregators. Agencies have to think about how this new technology impacts and changes their media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Media Contacts Picks Tribal Fusion Tribal Fusion is taking their relationship with Media Contacts, “the global interactive media network of Havas Digital, the interactive division of Havas Media” to another strategic level and will be supplying the agency with nearly every service an agency […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The IDG Ad Network Spencer Ante of Businessweek looks at how traditional print publisher, IDG, has created an ad network that not only sells advertising for its own properties but other non-IDG properties, too, as well as distributes content to those properties. It’s a […]
Eric Wheeler is CEO of 33Across, a social advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Any update you can provide on momentum at 33Across? Hey, what does the name, 33Across, mean anyway? EW: We’re working with a number of major brands and media agencies – The 33Across SocialDNA™ platform enables marketers to identify and anonymously target people with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. First Half Online Ad Spend Down Ad Age’s Nat Ives looks at the wreck that has been in world of media in the first half of 2009 in comparison to 2008 according to a study by Nielsen. The online good news was cable spend […]
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman’s “How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade” details the development of spy info company, Palantir Technologies from Palo Alto, California. The young, successful, outlier of a company has burst through the pack to provide leading edge solutions to the U.S. intelligence world. Hmm.. this sounds familiar. According to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. VivaKi Rebrands Exchange in India Publicis’ David Kenny continues his globetrotting and tells Kapil Ohri of “afaqs!” in India that “India Media Exchange (IMX) — the consolidated media buying arm of Starcom MediaVest Group, Zenith Optimedia and Solutions Digitas – will be renamed as […]
Jon Baron is Co-Founder and General Manager of TagMan. AdExchanger.com: What challenge is Tag Man solving for advertisers? How do you help publishers? JB: TagMan addresses a challenge facing all businesses involved in digital media. At all levels of the digital media business (creative through to publisher placement through to buying/selling) there is a transition […]
Dina Kaplan is co-founder of blip.tv, an online video broadcasting company. AdExchanger.com: What does the future of online video content look like in your estimation? I think we’ll see a proliferation of three types of content online. First, we’ll continue to have network shows available on the Web and also original Web content produced by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Displaying In Social Media Peter Kafka of All Things D looks at display advertising CPMs in social media thanks to Comscore Media Metrix. Kafka notes that MySpace and Facebook “accounted for 17.4 percent of the display ads in the U.S” in July according to […]
Michael Brunick is VP, Media Technology Director at Mediabrands Worldwide, a media buying and planning unit of Interpublic Group. AdExchanger.com: In your opinion, what is driving creation of agency buying platform strategies? MB: Agencies have more control and insight into how media dollars are spent for their clients. They also have access to more sensitive […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ad:tech Chicago Cranks Up In Chicago, today and tomorrow, ad:tech Chicago takes place at historic Navy Pier. A jam-packed agenda includes opening keynote speaker Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of Denuo and Chief Innovation Officer at Publicis Groupe Media as well as many other representatives from […]
Mark Redgrave is Founder & CEO of OpenAmplify, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: How did your experience at an agency (HHCL Group in London) prepare you for running OpenAmplify? MR: I was lucky to work under some really brilliant client services and creative teams on some of the world’s most important brands. I learned […]
Eyal Goldwerger, CEO of TargetSpot, an Internet radio advertising network. AdExchanger.com: What momentum has TargetSpot seen in 2009 for itself as well as its clients? 2009 is going to be a year of accelerating growth at TargetSpot, driven by rising advertiser demand. This is a result of both an increase in our advertisers’ budgets, as […]
John Vincent is CEO of EyeWonder, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: How would you like to see standards evolve for in-stream video ad inventory? And in-page video ad inventory? JV: Standardization is still a work in progress for the in-stream industry, so at this point we’d really like to see more of it in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Jarvis Coffin Coming Soon To The OPA Burst Media CEO, Jarvis Coffin (AdExchanger.com Q&A), is ready to prove wrong the recent, link-baiting-extraordinaire study funded by the Online Publishers Association (OPA). Coffin says he may begin calling on his fellow OPA “dues-payers” such as 24/7 […]
Yesterday’s sold-out, LeadsCon East convention in New York City brought together the lead generation community for a two-day event focused on, of course, generating leads as well as putting more tools in the hands of direct marketers. Conference organizer, noted blogger and former super seller, Jay Weintraub gave attendees a healthy dose of the potential […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Vertical State of the Display Ad Market In a piece by MediaWeek’s Mike Shields, Adify is reporting that display ad prices are rebounding and names categories such as Real Estate ($6.49 CPMs in Q2, was half that in Q4 2008) and Sports ($7.09 […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. In the last few months, those of us working in the world of ad exchanges have been bombarded by articles and discussions about issues that will directly affect our careers: privacy regulation, data sources, emerging business models and […]
Russell Glass is CEO of Bizo, a business-to-business ad network. AdExchanger.com: Judging from your June release, Bizo business appears to have momentum. Has B2B been slowed in the recession or never stopped? What are you expecting from the economy in the next 12 months? B2B has been hurt by the recession, but it has kept […]
