Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google, FTC Search For Settlement Google and the Federal Trade Commission are said to be hammering out an acceptable fine so they can end their dispute over whether the search giant misrepresented its privacy practices to consumers, the WSJ’s Julia Angwin reports. “The amount […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mapping the Yahoo Genome Goodbye Interclick, hello Genome. Yahoo has gone live with its integrated audience buying offering spawned from the purchase of Interclick late last year. The audience marketplace will bring to bear a range of first and third party data including Yahoo […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! CEO Race Yahoo! interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar are in the lead to be the permanent CEO of Yahoo! says Yahoo! ‘insider’ Kara Swisher on All Things D. She writes, “At this point, said sources, it appears to still […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mo’ Money Mobile It’s a ‘funding-a-day’ in ad tech! On Tuesday, mobile app marketing platform Fiksu announced it has added $10 million ($17.8 mil total) in new funds to its coffers. Read the release – which gives a pretty good sense of how Fiksu […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Uncapture The Flag Microsoft has had enough, fiscally, of its aQuantive acquisition. As you may recall, it was the largest of a series of digital media acquisitions that year which included Google buying DoubleClick, Yahoo buying Right Media, WPP buying 24/7 and even Microsoft […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LinkedIn Scrubbed Of Tweets LinkedIn is getting back some of its screen real estate as it said Friday that tweets will no longer be displayed on the B2B network site. A LinkedIn email to users explains, “LinkedIn and Twitter have worked together since 2009 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Forbes’ Homepage Pitch The corporate and wealth news magazine’s latest homepage revamp is focused, in part, on raising the profile of marketers in its AdVoice program, which integrates advertiser posts with user and staff content. As Lewis DVorkin, Forbes Media’s chief product officer writes […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Dotomi Sets ValueClick’s Destiny That’s the take from Piper Jaffray analyst Mark Zgutowicz on the negative impact of real-time bidding platforms on ValueClick’s ad network business. The display ad company finds itself in “the precarious position of having to bid up impressions among many,” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Funding Attribution Remember that famous Tom Hanks line: “There’s no crying in ad tech.” As Visual IQ proves, there’s no crying because the investment keeps flowing. The attribution and analytics solution provider raised another $12 million on top of an initial $3 million raise. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Exchange Boot? All Things D’s Peter Kafka bubbles up news that two of the early DSP/retargeter entrants to the Facebook Exchange may have been shown the door. He admits, “Who got the boot? Well, nailing that one down is a bit tricky, since no […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brand.net Sold Direct-mail, newspaper coupon marketing, and, yes, digital ad company Valassis announced the acquisition of online ad network Brand.net yesterday to enhance its “Valassis Audience Network, the components of an expansive network of online and offline data, state-of-the-art ad serving and targeting technology, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LocalResponse Hopes For Half-Full Social ad network LocalResponse is boasting that it’s serving more than 7 billion impressions per month. A pretty impressive number, though CEO and co-founder Nihal Mehta concedes, in an interview with Techcrunch’s Anthony Ha, that the company isn’t able to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Barrett To Yahoo!, Y! Ad Tech Plans Former Admeld CEO Michael Barrett is movin’ on from his post-acquisition Google role. All Things D’s Kara Swisher reports that Barrett will be joining Yahoo! as EVP and CRO and “will be in charge of ad revenue […]
Victoria Ransom is CEO of Wildfire, a social marketing software company whose sector has drawn strong interest recently from companies like Salesforce and Oracle. AdExchanger discussed Wildfire and industry trends with Ransom recently. AdExchanger: Regarding momentum in the social media marketing space – Oracle buys Vitrue, Salesforce buys Buddy Media – what do these acquisitions […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Acxiom Database The New York Times’ Natasha Singer profiles the data treasure trove that Acxiom manages and continues to grow in a feature titled, “You for Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome.” She writes, “Digital marketers already customize pitches to users, based […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publisher Dancing Former Knight Ridder exec and author Ken Doctor looks at Google’s relationship with pubishers and says, “Next Wednesday, Google hosts an all-day assemblage of news publishers in New York City. It won’t be the first meeting, but it’s an intriguing time to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting The URL Shortener Social ad platform RadiumOne continues to update its product line of data gathering apps as MediaPost’s Laurie Sullivan reports on ‘re.Po.st‘. The URL shortener aims to not only improve the sharing of links, a la Bit.ly, but it also “serves […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Komli Adds Millions Ad tech and ad network company Komli Media has gone to the bank as the company announced yesterday $39 million have been added to its venture capital-infused coffers. Crunchbase says Komli has raised $60 million all-time. This latest “inside round” was […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital Billions The IAB and the number crunchers at PriceWaterhouse Coopers revealed yesterday that overall digital ad revenue in Q1 hit a new all-time record at $8.4 billion. The release continues, “It is the highest first-quarter revenue ever measured by the IAB and PwC […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Apple’s New UDID The Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Vascellaro says that Apple may be coming to the rescue of mobile ad developers (my words), and presumably mobile ad networks, who are looking for a targeting alternative to the UDID – or device ID used […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Commodity Convo Reuters Jennifer Saba analyzes new revenue data for newspaper publishers and sees ad exchanges as the culprit. She explains to the neophyte, “Advertising exchanges are electronic platforms that allow buyers to bid on and purchase advertising space at drastically reduced prices. Many […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here PubMatic Banks $45 Million Sell-side platform PubMatic announced a hefty “mezzanine” round raise of $45 million as it looks to build out and, perhaps, even acquire sell or buy-side tools in preparation for an IPO. Peter Kafka interviews Goel about his company on All […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. It’s The Pixel Yesterday’s DoubleClick marketing event appeared to be a success if a “few thousand viewers” via a livestream is any indication. The event announced new integrations within the DoubleClick marketing stack known formally as DoubleClick Digital Marketing. Invite Media-like tech is getting […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Alt UDID Under Review The Wall Street Journal sees the new UDID alternatives as mobile ad networks’ efforts to “circumvent” Apple Safari browser security efforts. The WSJ says, “…Ad networks that serve advertisements within mobile apps have started using new identifiers that collect information […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Login Cometh Michael Miller reports on Google execs Susan Wojcicki and Sundar Pichai’s appearance at last week’s D:10 conference. In response to a question about the poor targeting of advertising today, Miller paraphrases Pichai who says, “The personalization of advertising is still in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DNT Set To “ON” If you just can’t stand browsing without a Do-Not-Track feature, in a few days Microsoft says it can help with DNT Features built into its latest Internet Explorer 10. Read the news buried in a release. Meanwhile, IAB CEO Randall […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Internet Trends In spite of the fact that former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker has joined the VC world (Kleiner Perkins), she is still cranking out her famous Internet Trends report which she presented at All Things D’s D10 conference. And guess what? Mobile […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Salesforce.com Has A New Buddy? Social marketing software is the new DSP. Last week Vitrue was acquired by Oracle. This week, Peter Kafka says on All Things D that Buddy Media and its $90 million of venture funding is about to get rolled up […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Kicking Tires With reports continuing to swirl of Amazon building a significant display advertising business, Kunur Patel says in Ad Age that the acquisition of a mobile ad network may be next. Patel thinks Amazon’s ecommerce data could be a powerful bottom-of-the-funnel solution for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Was MSNBC.com, Now NBC.com? There’s long been speculation that NBC Universal could take full control of MSNBC.com from Microsoft, its partner in the website venture. Adweek’s Mike Shields hears that the Comcast-owned network is considering it. “The site benefits heavily from its prominent placement […]
