With names such as VivaKi Nerve Center, Adnetik, Varick and Cadreon, among others, agency holding companies have begun to realize strategies that align media buying with future innovation in online advertising. But, what more can be done to preserve the agency model while digital takes its deserved share of voice in cross-channel marketing strategies? It’s […]
Matt Hulett is CEO of Mpire, an online advertising solutions company. AdExchanger.com: Mpire’s AdXpose appears to give advertisers insight on placement and context. Yet, the trend these days seems to put more importance on targeting audience and addressable media. In your opinion, why does AdXpose belong in today’s marketplace? MH: AdXpose belongs in today’s marketplace […]
Greg Sterling delivers the OPA case on display advertising to search marketers on Search Engine Land. In the process, Greg digs up 2008 data from Tacoda (now AOL’s property) regarding clickers. Sterling concludes, “The bottom line is that a CTR is not a good measure of consumer intent, engagement or value as a metric for […]
Omnicom Media Group CEO Matt Spiegel let another crumb drop regarding what’s going on with OMG’s media buying platform strategy in an interview with MediaPost’s Laurie Sullivan. Apparently, (no surprise) behavioral targeting is in the middle of it. With the exchange model swimming in data with – potentially – real-time bidding’s help, behavioral targeting and […]
Josh Chasin is Chief Research Officer of Comscore, a marketing research company. AdExchanger.com: Of the three silos of metrics – audience measurement, campaign analysis tools and web analytics – in your opinion, which one is the toughest to grasp for the end client? JC: One the one hand, I think the most vexing thing for […]
Chip Hall is SVP of Sales and Marketing at Teracent, an advertising creative solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: What trends have you seen at Teracent in 2009? Can you characterize trends in revenue momentum, deal size, client verticals, consumer audience targets, etc.? CH: Teracent has seen very positive growth and revenue in 2009 and so far has […]
Alan Schanzer is Chief Strategy Officer, Undertone Networks, an online advertising network. AdExchanger.com: Of the four ad solutions you provide according to your website (Display Ads, Synched Ads, Undertone Video and Full Page Ads), which is the fastest growing and why? Any surprises or trends that you’ve seen in 2009? AS: We are seeing growth […]
This past week, the Internet Retailer Conference took place in Boston, and several hot start-ups showed their wares including attribution analytics provider, ClearSaleing, who launched their attribution management platform at the show. The good news doesn’t stop there for ClearSaleing whose co-founder and chief innovation officer, Adam Goldberg, told The Wall Street Journal that revenue […]
As the technology mashup evolves in digital advertising, the effective management of data is bringing increasing transparency and control for buyers and sellers of online media. ROI, CPA, CPM, KPI, CTR – a rapper’s dream! – and other acronyms abound as we quantify the ongoing optimization of media. But, where is the user in all […]
Collective Media hired former Yahoo! automotive category director, Brian Elliott, to lead its Detroit office. Which got us thinking… Isn’t the domestic U.S. auto industry on life support? Haven’t they had their marketing budgets reduced dramatically? What is Collective Media thinking? In response, Joe Apprendi, Collective CEO told AdExchanger.com, “Yes, the auto industry in aggregate, […]
