Today, social media marketing company Buddy Media announced the acquisition of Spinback, a social commerce analytics and technology company. On Buddy Media’s company blog, Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow explains how attribution was at the center of the reason for buying Spinback: “By combining sharing and conversion tracking into one elegant technology solution, Spinback shows […]
Today, ad verification company AdSafe Media announced the hiring of Scott Knoll as CEO replacing founder Helene Monat. Previously, Knoll was founder and president of Datran Media’s Aperture as well as CEO of BlackFoot, a digital advertising solutions company, and “spent 6 years at DoubleClick, directing the launch and development of the DoubleClick ad network.” […]
CTR, CPM – back to your caves! The engagement tribe is claiming the delivery of an improved sack of “billyclub” success metrics for the marketer to wield as he or she spills chocolatey ad spend across channels digital and non. Choose-your-own-adventure video ads, filling out a survey to aid the marketer, entering a brand message […]
Rob Lenderman is Co-Founder, CIO-CMO of BoostCTR, a crowdsourced marketplace the optimization and testing of online ad creative. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come for “BoostCTR”? RL: A few years ago I was working at a company that inherited an AdWords account for a multi-million dollar company. They had not had a single text ad […]
Ad tech angel investor (33Across, Flurry, Magnetic, Metamarkets, PerformLine, The Trade Desk, XA.net, and Yieldbot among others) Jerry Neumann recently spoke to AdExchanger.com about his views of the digital advertising ecosystem today. Click below or keep scrolling to read his answers… What is missing in the digital ad ecosystem today? Is there room for more […]
Layton Han is CEO of Adara Media, a provider of online solutions for loyalty programs. AdExchanger.com: How has your experience as founder of MyPoints.com informed your work as CEO of Adara Media? LH: MyPoints was a loyalty program leveraging data to provide highly effective advertising solutions to retailers. Using this data to provide relevant offers […]
Jeff Green is CEO of The Trade Desk, a demand-side platform for digital media. AdExchanger.com: We touched on it before, but what problem is The Trade Desk solving? We think there are two really difficult problems that we’re addressing. What is it worth to an advertiser to show an ad to this user, with these […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Chavez, CEO, Krux Digital. The battle for consumer data just reached a new, much more feverish pitch. The day before yesterday, Apple announced what a lot […]
Russ Mann is Co-Founder and CEO of Covario, an interactive marketing analytics and agency services company. AdExchanger.com: Please share a bit of background on Covario. RM: Covario is one of the nation’s largest independent providers of search marketing software and services. We have smart digital marketing investors of whom we are very proud, including Voyager, […]
