Valassis, a direct-mail and newspaper coupon marketer, said late last week that it has signed a deal with Yahoo! to provide SMBs an expanded digital marketing toolkit as “clients will gain access to Yahoo!’s premium online display advertising inventory and industry-leading behavioral and geographic targeting solutions.” Read the release. John Lieblang, President of Digital Media, […]
C. Eoin Townsend is CEO of MainStreetSocial, an online monetization platform for local governments, residents and advertisers. What problem is MainStreetSocial solving? CET: Right now, 90% of local governments are suffering serious budget shortfalls while spending 20 billion dollars a year on technology outsourcing in an attempt to increase communication and connect with their residents. […]
Alan Pearlstein is CEO and President of Cross Pixel Media, a data-centric marketing services company. AdExchanger.com: How about a little background? How did you get where you are today? AP: I have always been a direct response marketer by training. The first business I started was a mail order catalog, and in 2002 I launched […]
Representatives Rick Boucher (Democrat, Virginia) and Cliff Stearns, (Republican, Florida) released their “discussion draft of legislation to assure the privacy of information about individuals both on the Internet and offline.” (Given the initial language from the release, it would seem that there is much more broader scope such as the offline direct marketing (catalogs etc.) […]
“The Debate” is a column focused on the current debate around ad targeting and consumer privacy. Today’s article is written by: Ed Zimmerman, Mark Kesslen, and Matthew Savare, Lowenstein Sandler, a law firm. (See bios.) Let’s say you’re surfing the web, planning your next vacation with the family. You visit several travel sites, book your […]
MediaMath announced its acquisition of Adroit Interactive, an advertising technology company specializing in multi-variate creative, also known as dynamic ads. Read the release. MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki discussed the acquisition and Adroit’s technology. AdExchanger.com: For the creatives – such as those at creative agencies-, how do you make the case for Adroit’s technology being additive […]
“The Video Audience” is a column written by members of the media community and focused on the evolving world of online video advertising. Today’s column is written by Teg Grenager, Founder and VP of Product at adap.tv. Online video advertising spending continues to grow rapidly, and it’s easy to see why. It’s practically the perfect […]
Alex Willcock is Founder and CEO of Imagini Holdings Limited, an advertising technology company and makers of VisualDNA. AdExchanger.com: Please give us a bit of history about VisualDNA. A new company? Or pivoting for new opportunity? AW: I founded the business because I saw an opportunity to change the relationship between commerce and consumers – […]
Jeremy Helfand, EVP and Chief Sales Officer, at United Online, discussed the company’s new audience-buying platform – Adcurate – which enables audience buying of United Online properties. AdExchanger.com: How will United Online differentiate from competitors such as Fox Audience Network with the Adcurate™ platform? JH: Adcurate is intensely focused on audiences – who they are, […]
Michael Walrath is the former CEO of Yahoo!’s Right Media. I recently argued that the dramatic rise in demand side services is a step toward a next generation marketing services model. Or said another way, the agency of the future is going to look very different than today’s version. If this is the case, it […]
