It’s been six months since botnets entered the advertising lexicon in a big way, thanks to research and publicity efforts by self-styled fraud fighters and firms that specialize in detecting nonhuman traffic. March stories in Adweek, AdExchanger and other publications shined a spotlight on the pervasiveness of nonhuman Internet traffic and its threat to the value […]
After a year existing as a retargeting API feature within ad-exchange operator AppNexus’ system of technology tools, AdExtent says it is launching an independent version of its retargeting offering with a particular focus of augmenting Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) own solutions. In addition to AppNexus, the company is working with MediaMath, Turn and Google’s DoubleClick […]
As Salesforce.com and Oracle CEOs Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison demonstrated last week, what CEOs say in public can rarely be taken at face value. Following a bitter rivalry and lots of name-calling, Oracle and Saleforce.com announced a nine-year partnership to integrate Salesforce.com’s CRM software and Oracle’s cloud-hosted human resources and financial applications. There was […]
After stints running TV media sales software INVISION and heading corporate development for ad exchange operator AppNexus, former AOL executive Lynda Clarizio is joining investment bank Berenson & Co. to help expand its digital media dealmaking portfolio. Read the release. The post puts Clarizio on the other side of the M&A table from her early […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by John Ramey, CEO of isocket. At the AdExchanger Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco last week, while people schmoozed at the rooftop after-party, an unofficial meeting was held down the […]
Brian O’Kelley wants you to know he’s serious about mobile. On the same day IDC reported Q1 PC sales plummeted 13.9% as consumer usage shifted dramatically to tablet and smartphone devices, the CEO of AppNexus told attendees at the company’s San Francisco summit that the company is going “all in” with its mobile strategy. O’Kelley […]
Online ad fraud bubbled up in a big way last month, after London-based Spider.io published details of a botnet responsible for generating billions of illegitimate impressions per month. The sites that are selling allegedly non-viewable impressions from the Chameleon botnet are not widely recognized brands. Reports have identified Alphabird and DigiMogul as among the site […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is by Andy Atherton, SVP at AppNexus. It’s the second in a series on the emergence of programmatic reserve. A few weeks back, I laid out the case for a closer look at programmatic […]
Martini Media, the online ad network focused on targeting young “affluent” audiences for the past four years, is broadening its offerings to the programmatic side. Martini’s move reflects a number of factors reshaping the online ad landscape, but the shift is not without pitfalls. For one thing, the ad network model in general is under […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is by Andy Atherton SVP at AppNexus. It’s the first in a series on the emergence of programmatic reserve. There has been no shortage of attention paid to programmatic reserve of late. The […]
Google, AppNexus, and PubMatic are all talking up the convergence of guaranteed and non-guaranteed media. The first solutions designed to address this convergence were private exchanges, embraced by many sellers but fewer on the buy side. Now the companies are moving forward on the next wave of features. Among the favored approaches is so-called “holistic […]
Terence Kawaja, founder and CEO at LUMA Partners, has surveyed the past few week’s notable deals — demand side platforms MediaMath’s acquisition of Akamai’s Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) unit (which his firm helped broker); exchange platform AppNexus’ $75 million venture capital funding; and the shuttering of adBrite’s exchange business. And he sees the clear formation […]
No AppNexus insiders will take money off the table as the RTB pure play soaks up a new $75 million investment led by Technology Crossover Ventures. Instead, funds from the series D round will be pumped into the company in the form of new features, marketplace quality improvements, and employee development. CEO Brian O’Kelley wrote […]
Skinected is a young company, and small, with just five employees. But the pain point that spawned the business goes back some 15 years, and has plagued legions of media brokers and buyers. Co-founders Chip Meyers and Stefan Kosel began trying to integrate non-standard ad formats into movie websites in the late ’90s, beginning with […]
AppNexus is an object of some fascination in digital marketing circles, and why not? Led by former rivals from Right Media and DoubleClick Ad Exchange, the privately held company has grown up to become perhaps the only scaled “pure” technology company in the real-time bidding landscape. It provides no managed services, accepts no insertion orders, […]
Facebook’s Exchange is in full swing outside the U.S. Speaking at the AppNexus Summit in New York this week, Facebook VP global partnerships Blake Chandlee noted FBX buyers can now access audiences in the Asia-Pacific region and in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A spokesperson later confirmed the expansion and said Facebook is actively […]
“In the Netherlands we have a horrible privacy law. It requires us to ask for explicit consent before we can collect data or use cookies. That’s partly our fault. I think the US ad industry should really take a stand and inform both politicians and consumers.” -Kim Van Der Zande, Chief Strategy Officer of FlxOne, […]
AppNexus can be a tough company to draw a bead on. First, it’s not public and so isn’t required to disclose revenues, profits, or cash on hand. Second, it functions as a marketplace intermediary, sitting between media buyer and seller, and sometimes between other intermediaries. As such it’s not directly measured by the likes of […]
Facebook today removes the “beta” label from its fledgling real-time-bidding ad exchange (official blog post), and has given its 15 platform partners permission to crow about their early results. And crow they have… Here are two big takeaways from the wave of FBX data coming out this morning: (1) Facebook Exchange dramatically increases the amount […]
In the last three years, Microsoft has metamorphosed from a laggard to something of a leader in the exchange-traded media space. After a false start with its AdECN RTB platform, it now puts all, or nearly all, of its non-reserved inventory on its own ad exchange, which is powered by AppNexus. Daniel Sheinberg is senior […]
The steady collection of extreme tech skills over at real-time ad platform and app marketplace AppNexus is creating a growing opportunity around services. The company is actively recruiting for an AppNexus Global Services unit, according to a company website, including NYC and London “open positions” from its job board. Call it a high tech agency or […]
Rik van der Kooi is Microsoft’s corporate VP, advertiser and publisher solutions. In an interview with AdExchanger last week at the Cannes Lions ad fest, he opens up on a range of topics, including Microsoft’s relationship with Facebook, its display strategy, and the industry blow-up over its controversial stance on Do-Not-Track. How is Cannes treating […]
Good times were had by all at the AppNexus Summit in NYC today, as AppNexus gathered Yahoo!, Microsoft and Aol together for a little chat about their, potentially, big deal that will allow each of the three, huge publishers to sell each other’s “premium,” non-guaranteed, display inventory. (Tuesday’s press release here.) Participants for the panel […]
“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s counterpoint column is written by Jacob Ross is Senior Director, Advertising Platforms, Demand Media Big news on both eBay and Microsoft today, and Eric Franchi did a great job of surfacing the importance of the news. However, it’s misleading to compare these two […]
All Things D’s Peter Kafka reports that AppNexus direct access to Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange display ad inventory has been cut-off temporarily for what appears to be one of two reasons – which actually may be intertwined. Kafka quotes a Google spokesperson who suggests there may have been something going on with an unidentified campaign(s) […]
In a breezy panel discussion that captured the continuing momentum in the digital media optimization space, Dapper hosted, “Fixing Advertising: The New Data-Driven Display Ecosystem” in New York City on Wednesday night. (West coast, fear not. Dapper marketer Paul Knegten notes that the company will be bringing together a similar panel in San Francisco next […]
The digital advertising start-up world continues to play its siren song as the résumé pages of LinkedIn reveal moves and machinations within the industry. Over at Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange, Lauren Nemeth has left the building to take on the Director of Sales role at AppNexus. Highly respected within Big G, Nemeth brings her high-level […]
AdExchanger.com was able to catch up with AppNexus president Michael Rubenstein after his company’s recently announced “$5-million Inside, Up Round.” What’s all this AppNexus “gateway” talk, you ask? It’s official – AppNexus is a demand-side platform. Rubenstein was unequivocal when elaborating on what was meant in the release by the term “gateway.” He said that […]
