Today, social analytics company and ad network 33across announced the acquisition of Tynt, a sell-side analytics tools company that aggregates data to tell publishers about their audience, protect their content and even leverage search engine optimization to drive traffic. Read the release. In addition to the new sell-side technology – it’s getting a boatload of […]
Skip Brand is CEO of Martini Media, an online ad network targeting “affluent” audience. Martini Media recently raised $13 million to “continue commercializing its proprietary analytics, targeting products, differentiated multimedia and social media formats.” Read the release. He shared insights about his company and the ad industry at-large in an interview with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: What’s […]
Joe Apprendi is CEO of Collective, an online advertising technology and services company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Apprendi to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Collective today. Click below or scroll down for more: On Integrating The […]
Naveen Tewari is CEO and Founder of InMobi, a mobile advertising network. AdExchanger.com: InMobi purchased Sprout last year of course. How important is rich media to successful mobile campaigns today? Can an advertiser have a successful mobile campaign without rich media? NT: The importance of rich media is mostly determined by the objectives of the […]
Yesterday, media company Federated Media announced the acquisition of Boulder, Colorado-based ad network and publisher technology company Lijit. Federated CEO Deanna Brown offered in a release, “Our combined relationships, proprietary tools and conversational marketing services will be invaluable to publishers and advertisers alike.” Read it. Lijit CEO Todd Vernon and COO Walter Knapp will become […]
Former AudienceScience executive Jeff Hirsch has announced that he is joining Santa Barbara, California-based Underdog Media as its CEO. Hirsch discussed his new role and his new company’s future plans with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Please share some details about the new role. Why make the move? JH: It’s time for me to get back to basics […]
Yesterday, Travel Ad Network announced the hiring of a new CEO – Nan-Kirsten Forte, formerly of health information site WebMD. According to the release, in Forte’s 13 years of service at WebMD, “she was instrumental in growing WebMD’s consumer audience from less than 1 million to over 100 million monthly unique users and a market […]
Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Bob Walczak is the former CEO of mobile ad network Ringleader Digital and currently runs Bump Equity, LLC. The latest change in Apple IOS 5 of eliminating the use of the UDID is a huge shift for the mobile application ad […]
Last week, ad network ad summos announced an agreement with automotive data company, Polk. According to the release, “With access to Polk’s vehicle make and model data, ad summos is able to determine the vehicle purchasing and ownership behaviors of individuals served online display ads.” Read the release. Polk’s Andrew Price, who is VP of […]
