The buildup around the online advertising “NewFront” presentations this week from Microsoft, Yahoo, Digitas and others are meant to appear similar to the annual TV upfront extravaganzas, AOL appeared to take the notion as seriously as possible. At a rented studio on Manhattan’s west side, the company unveiled a presentation that makes AOL’s content offerings […]
Depending who you ask, momentum for an online GRP measurement standard is either the best answer the online video business has to unlocking billions of TV ad dollars or it’s a menacing hand from the past come to smother web video metrics in the cradle. The latest major player, and first publisher of size, to […]
AOL’s advertising is mostly known for its ad network and targeting tools, but in contrast to rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, it has not been deeply immersed in the ad exchange space. During the company’s Q4 earnings call, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told investors that AOL plans to roll out several products around audience buying […]
AOL’s Q4 looked much like the previous three quarters: double digit growth in display, both domestic and international, as well as a further slowing of its revenue declines. Not to mention, the low expectations of Wall St. analysts also helped it top consensus targets. Read the earnings release. But other problems are still more acute, […]
Last Thursday, Aol and Bonnier’s Parenting Group announced a deal which will bring Parenting.com content to Aol owned and operated sites as well as leverage Aol’s salesforce and ad products on behalf of Parenting.com’s own site. Read more. Ned Brody, CRO and President of AOL Advertising, discussed the deal. Click below or scroll for more: […]
It’s only been 60 or so days since All Things D’s Peter Kafka broke the story, but Microsoft, Yahoo! and Aol made it official in a press release: “The agreements will allow ad networks operated by Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL to offer each other’s premium nonreserved online display inventory to their respective advertising customers.” And […]
Ned Brody is Chief Revenue Officer and President of AOL Advertising. Brody sat down with AdExchanger.com and discussed Aol Advertising strategy and momentum. AdExchanger.com: Can you update us on the latest regarding Aol’s technology stack strategy? NB: The first time we sat down, I said that Aol will be focused on providing a technology stack […]
Aol and VivaKi announced a new partnership which will look to unearth new formats for online video advertising and will be part of VivaKi’s “The Pool” initiative. Read the release. Erin Clift, SVP of Branded Experiences at Aol, discussed the deal as well as her own role that addresses both marketer and agency constituencies. AdExchanger.com: […]
As Aol announced yesterday its intention to buy Huffington Post, the sell-side platform world was all ears. Here comes Aol CEO Tim Armstrong crafting a content generation strategy that goes beyond the content farm, but includes real brands that leverage the community. The community is critical since it helps generate content for the brands. No […]
Aol had a busy year in 2010 as it announced its Project Devil initiative, made several acquisitions (5min, Pictela, TechCrunch and more) and continued its transition from as a standalone public company after being spun out from Time Warner in December, 2009. Aol’s Jeff Levick, the company’s President of Global Advertising and Strategy, discussed Aol’s […]
Today, Aol continued its charge into the premium digital ad business as it announced the acquisition of Pictela (AdExchanger.com Q&A from 4/5/10), a company whose technology platform provides branded content across advertising and social media according to the release. Read it. Aol appears to remain laser-focused on building premium ad opportunities and preparing for brand […]
Last week, AOL, owners of the Advertising.com ad network, announced Ad Desk, the company’s new, self-service platform for ad buying across the Advertising.com network and AOL properties. Read the release. AdExchanger.com interviewed AOL execs Dave Jacobs (SVP, Publisher Services), Don Kennedy (SVP, Network Sales) and Jamie Fellows (VP, Product Management, AOL Advertising) in regards to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Network And Publishers In Mediaweek Following last week’s article in which Mediaweek reporter Mike Shields identified several publishers who claimed that ad network, InterCLICK, had misrepresented their inventory, this week, each is given the Mediaweek microphone to state their case. Read more. InterCLICK […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Predicts Display Rev Decrease In a 10-K filing today with the Securites Exchange Commission, AOL revealed that its expecting its display ad revenue to be down from a year ago in Q1. According to Barron’s Eric Savitz, the company blamed the decrease on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Reports For The First Time AOL reported its 4th quarter 2009 earnings and among the takeways, “Domestic display revenue grew year-over-year for the first time in 8 quarters.” Get the Investor Relations Presentation (PDF) here. ClickZ’s Christopher Heine looks deeper into the earnings […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Norman Becomes GroupM CEO The quotable Rob Norman, digital chief of the biggest media buying agency on the planet, GroupM, has become even chief-ier with his elevation to the CEO role at WPP’s GroupM according to Michael Bush of AdAge. Norman takes over for […]
Patrick Keane is CEO of Associated Content, an online publishing platform. AdExchanger.com: Given AOL’s recent positioning in the content creation space, where does Associated Content fit? And, is it odd having Tim Armstrong as an advisor and competitor? PK: Tim remains an investor and friend of the company. I cannot comment about Tim or AOL’s […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DoubleClick Ad Exchange Update – Long Tail Revolt? Barry Schwartz of the Search Engine Roundtable blog notes a trend among a small number of long tail publishers regarding their perception of “Certified Ad Networks” accessing and buying the Google Content Network through the DoubleClick […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Releases Campaign Insights Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth looks at Google’s answer to Microsoft’s engagement mapping called “Campaign Insights.” According to Learmonth, Google compares data from the advertiser’s ad server and marries that to data from the Google Toolbar (- so that’s what it’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Shuts Down Some Ads According to All Facebook, Facebook is getting more aggressive about policing the advertisements ad networks place through the social media platform. Though the article on Facebook seems unnecessarily hysterical in that Facebook is apparently cutting “IQ Quiz ads” (who […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Quigo And Tacoda Names Cut In the speed of a tweet, AOL Advertising announced through its Twitter account that the Quigo and Tacoda names were company names non-grata. (All that trademark work for nothing!) OK, they didn’t announce on Twitter – it all starts […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CPM Tea Party Shelby Bonnie, the CEO of Whiskey Media – and the co-founder of CNET – , says on TechCrunch that it’s time to kill the CPM as he speaks to his media publishing brethren who can’t seem to get a break as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Talks Exchanges David Kaplan of PaidContent cornered AOL’s Jeff Levick at the OMMA conference in New York City this week and asked whether or not AOL would be interested in its own exchange – especially in light of the recent hoopla around the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $9 Million For Rubicon Project Rubicon Project brought in another $9 million in equity investment to “continue pursuing acquisitions and global expansion.” Leading in this round was GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund which invested $6 million investment with existing investors Clearstone Venture Partners and Mayfield […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DoubleClick Ad Exchange Day The press coverage of today’s launch of the DoubleClick Ad Exchange is extensive. Paid Content’s David Kaplan quotes one agency executive who offers that the exchange should disintermediate “loathsome ad network arbitrage junkies.” Read more. The New York Times Miguel […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Former aQuantive Exec Turns VC Emily Steel interviews former Microsoft ad executive and aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews for the WSJ Digits blog. McAndrews is joining Seattle-based VC company, Madrona Venture Group, and will run a $250 million investment fund. You can read more from […]
AOL has grabbed “Mr. Microphone” and gone on a PR spree regarding display advertising. Today’s Wall Street Journal article by Emily Steel, “Chief to Focus AOL on Becoming Display-Ad Leader,” tells CEO Tim Armstrong’s side of the display ad story as AOL will be trying to lay claim to leadership held by Yahoo! and Google. […]
Forrester is predicting that interactive marketing spend will hit nearly $55 billion by 2014, but advertising overall will decline. On ClickZ, Rocket Fuel CEO George John discusses actionable data in online display with a couple of his own fancy graphs and tables. In discussing the use of optimization tools, John makes this clever analogy: “It’s […]
