Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Audience Buying Guide Ad Age has released a new “Audience Buying Guide” which offers a boat-load of articles on the data-driven ad world beginning with… Kathryn Koegel’s guide to acronyms here. Ad Age’s Kunur Patel covers the Group buying ecosystem here. Rebecca Lieb looks […]
David Karnstedt is President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, a performance marketing company. Karnstedt discussed his company’s strategy and recent momentum with AdExchanger.com. Click below or scroll down to read more: Today’s Trends On The Industry’s Attribution Challenges EF’s Digital Channels Target Market Clients And First-Party Data Profitability, Funding, Acquisitions Search & Display Misconceptions OBA […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Creates Agencies The growing, Facebook services and agency trend is featured in a piece by The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel and Geoffrey Fowler. Among the companies mentioned are Blinq Media (AdExchanger.com Q&A), Kenshoo (AdExchanger.com Q&A) and Webtrends as Facebook’s opening of its […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $30 Million More For Video Video advertising tech and solutions provider TidalTV – led by Ad.com’s former CEO and co-founder Scott Ferber – announced a healthy, new $30 million round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Comcast Interactive Capital and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aol Getting $60 CPMs Digiday’s Brian Morrissey reports from the Digital Publisher Summit in Utah that Aol’s big ads initiative “Project Devil” is running like a bat out of hell and “commanding unheard-of CPMs of $60 and up.” Morrissey finds skeptics in the crowd, […]
Read more on the Microsoft advertising blog, but it’s official as CVP Rik van der Kooi of Microsoft says, “I’m pleased to announce that the Microsoft Advertising Exchange is open for business and that the integration of our ad exchange with the AppNexus real-time bidding (RTB) platform is complete in the U.S.” And, what do […]
Still more curation news in Google Search-land as the company says it’s extending its social search strategy and getting the user to help with better search results through recommendation. What’s the impact on display? More targeting opportunities, perhaps. As has been previously announced, Google will allow users to start blocking results. But in a blog […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aegis’ Trading Desk On the UK’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) site, a new interview is published with Aegis’/iProspect’s Louisa Wong, who heads Aegis UK trading desk strategy. She offers, “A trading desk strategy cannot be prescribed at a local level, the fundamental tactics […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adap.tv Takes In $20 Million TechCrunch reports that Adap.tv has raised another round of financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners to the tune of $20 million after raising $4.5 million in October 2010. That’s $43 million total. It appears the company is full steam […]
Ari Paparo has moved to real-time ad platform AppNexus to become their senior vice president of product management. According to the release, Paparo “brings over 10 years of experience overseeing the development of the industry’s leading advertising technology platforms at Google, DoubleClick, and Nielsen.” Read it. For more background, read Paparo’s October 2010 AdExchanger.com Q&A. […]
“The Video Audience” is a column written by members of the media community and focused on the evolving world of online video advertising. Today’s column is written by Cynthia Butler, Publisher Integration Engineer at Denver-based, SpotXchange, a video advertising technology company. I’ll give you two differences between display and video advertising: technology and people. Some […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. interclick Plaintiff Drops Claim On Friday, online ad tech company interclick announced that the heat from the so-called “history sniffing” lawsuit may be subsiding. According to a release, “the plaintiff amended her complaint and voluntarily dropped her claim that interclick had violated the Electronic […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IBM Optimizing For The Marketer Here comes Big Blue. IBM announced separate products yesterday targeting the social media and email spaces with Coremetrics Social and Unica Pivotal Veracity Email Optimization Suite intended to provide “marketers real-time data from social media channels,” according to an […]
Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a new column devoted to an answer to a single question – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is Tolman Geffs, Co-President of Jordan, Edmiston Group, which provides investment banking services in the media and information […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adobe Reports Big Revs Adobe Systems reports fiscal Q1 (ending March 4, 2011) financials on Tuesday and, according to the release, the company “achieved record revenue of $1.028 billion, compared to $858.7 million reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 and $1.008 billion […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Social Ad Biz Buzz Social Vibe (AdExchanger.com Q&A) announced that it has raised $20 million ($32 million total to-date) more in venture funding led by new investor, Norwest Venture Partners. According to the release, “The company plans to use the growth capital to accelerate […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adnetik Indexing Inventory Adnetik appears to preparing itself – as well as positioning for its clients – for a cookie-free future as it announced the new AIM Index, a part of the “Audience Investment Management (AIM) system” at Adnetik. The index has nothing to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. More NYT Paywall Reaction All Things D’s Peter Kafka interviews The New York Times’ SVP Martin Nisenholtz about his company’s long-awaited paywall strategy. One tidbit – Nisenholtz on why the Ipad subscription costs more: “We built the pricing architecture off of the research as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. 10 Days Until NYT Subs Publisher Arthur Sulzberger announces on his company’s NYtimes.com site that beginning March 28 (but testing started in Canada yesterday), you can get your very own digital subscription to the New York Times or, you can just stay the way […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Malvertising Porno The WSJ’s Emily Steel reports that nefarious ne’er-do-wells are inflicting malvertising on big brands via innocent (oh please) visitors of certain pornographic websites. According to Steel, “When a user visits one of these porn sites, the Web page launches dozens of pages […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Obama Gets Involved According to the Wall Street Journal, the Obama adminstration has set its sights on “protect[ing] Americans from instrusive data gathering, amid growing concern about the tracking and targeting of Internet users.” A new law in the U.S. may be on the […]
At last week’s Adobe Omniture Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group‘s Senior Manager, Marketing, Sandy Martin, presented her company’s marketing story in a panel titled “Put Cross Channel Behavior To Work: Building Conversions And Revenue.” Martin discussed her company’s interactive marketing strategy and perspective with AdExchanger.com. Click below or scroll down: […]
Last week, search engine marketing platform Marin Software announced a new partership with Criteo to offer Criteo’s retargeting services to Marin’s clients. According to the release, availability of “Marin Retargeting is currently in Beta with select joint clients. General availability for the solution is planned for summer, 2011.” Read more. Marin Software CEO Chris Lien […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Do-Not-Track In The Browser The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will announce the launch today of its new IE 9 web browser which “will be the first major Web browser to include a do-not-track tool that helps people keep their online habits from […]
At last week’s Adobe Omniture Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ancestry.com‘s Head of Marketing, Josh Hanna, presented his company’s marketing story in a panel titled “Inuition Is No Longer A Marketing Strategy: The Plight of the Data-Driven CMO.” Hanna discussed his company’s marketing strategy and data’s role in his marketing organizations day-to-day with AdExchanger.com. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Patent Trolls They don’t lurk under a dark bridge unless that bridge is made of advertising technology – patent trolls are costing agencies and advertisers millions of dollars in settlement claims says Ad Age’s Kunur Patel. She writes, “‘Patent trolls,’ legally known as non-practicing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Everything About You Taking a page from the Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series, Time Inc. editors title a new piece by Joel Stein “Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You.” In spite of the ominous tone, Stein concludes, “We’re quickly […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. 4As Conference: Privacy And Talent Threads A discussion on privacy yielded a sharp response from Association of National Advertisers chief Bob Liodice at yesterday’s final day of the 4A’s agency conference in Austin, Texas. In a panel moderated by Ad Age’s Abbey Klaassen, the […]
David Young is Director of Online Marketing at hotels.com. He recently spoke to AdExchanger.com about data-driven media and his expectations for AdKeeper. hotels.com is one of the initial brands to sign-up for Adkeeper’s “keep” product. Read the release. AdExchanger.com: Thinking about hotels.com marketing, it would seem to be very DR (Direct Response) focused as opposed […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. FTC Speaks, Online Ads Listen Ad Age’s Edmund Lee interviews U.S. Federal Trade Commission chief Jon Leibovitz who says that browser and tech companies have improved in providing transparency around usage of a consumer’s data. But, he adds, “One area that we are concerned […]
