Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Reports, Page Becomes CEO Google reported its Q4 2010 earnings and it was another whopper that exceeded Wall Street analyst expectations as “Google reported revenues of $8.44 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, representing a 26% increase over fourth quarter 2009 revenues […]
Joe Epperson is CEO of MaxPoint Interactive, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: I see you’re part of the PayPal mafia. Were you an original gangster there and how does that experience and eBay motors inform what you’re doing at MaxPoint? JE: No, I am not a part of the “PayPal” mafia. They had left […]
Nikesh Desai is Founder of InvestingChannel, a vertical ad network and publisher services company. AdExchanger.com: How did the InvestingChannel begin? And how has the company pivoted since it was first started? ND: We started this business for a couple of key reasons, amongst others: The business was started as an advisory business designed to help […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rocket Fuel Ignites Video With Display Ad network Rocket Fuel announced that it’s bringing its data-driven audience buying to the video channel with a product called Video Booster. According to the release, “The solution, which offers 15- or 30-second duration in-stream pre-roll ads with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook’s Ad Haul ”2010 was the year that Facebook firmly established itself as a major force not only in social network advertising but all of online advertising,” says eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson, noting that the social net should hit $2.19 billion in […]
AdExchanger.com spoke to Google’s Lexi Reese, director, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, about the whitepaper (PDF) which offers insights about publishers using Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange within the past year. (Google’s Neal Mohan formally announced the whitepaper on the Google blog here. Interview with Mohan by PaidContent’s David Kaplan is here.) Also, Reese discussed new category blocking […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Agonistes There is something about AOL’s mystique that seems to attract a lot of deep thinking and furrowed brows about its future. The company, which has been around almost as long as the modern Internet, has gone through many faces and phases: Internet […]
From the Official Google blog, Google exchange strategy takes center stage as VP of Product Management Neal Mohan announces the publication of a new whitepaper which reaffirms what he says is the contribution which the DoubleClick Ad Exchange is making to the advertising ecosystem. Read the post. And, download the paper. (PDF) Mohan notes the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lotame’s New Target Demographic ad targeter Lotame is starting a new business that involves providing ad agencies and brands with greater insight on how their online ad campaigns are performing. Given the industry’s insatiable thirst for analytics the creation of the Lotame Media Group […]
The much ballyhooed search-and-display convergence has been lighting up the digital airwaves for over a year now as startup companies either enter the space looking to provide a solution, or media agencies, search engine marketers, ad networks and DSPs add the search-display channel to its offering. Yet, it remains early days for a publicly available, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Selling Ads At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, global sales chief Carolyn Everson tells ClickZ’s Zach Rodgers about her company’s new focus on agencies as its sells ads across Microsoft properties: “We are now going very deep agency-by-agency, client-by-client. It’s part of a […]
On Tuesday, tag management firm TagMan announced that it had closed $2+ million in Series A investment led by venture capital firm Greycroft Partners. TagMan founder and CEO Paul Cook said in the release, “We will put the new funding to immediate use in releasing version 3 of our technology, building out our infrastructure to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Partnering Over Optimization Attempting to take another step in solving the attribution gap, MarketShare Partners and comScore announced a new partnership. From the release: “MarketShare will integrate comScore’s proprietary search, display, mobile and video data into their marketing analytics, resulting in more precise recommendations […]
Matt Keiser is CEO of LiveIntent, a trading desk and exchange solution for email and display. AdExchanger.com: First, can you share a little bit about your background and how you got to forming LiveIntent? Prior to founding LiveIntent, I co-founded and served as the President of Datran Media. I architected Datran System, the underlying technology […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cox Folds The Adify Brand Cox Communications announced that it is bringing vertical ad network tech and media company Adify under the Cox umbrella. Let’s hope it’s not raining. Cox Cross Media and Adify will now become Cox Digital Solutions. According to a press […]
Atul Patel is CEO of OneScreen, a technology platform that operates a video exchange for content producers, publishers/distributors, and advertisers. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come from for OneScreen? And, what’s the name mean? The idea of OneScreen came when we applied our insights from startups in lead generation and display advertising to the digital […]
Below is a sample of industry reaction to yesterday’s acquisition of attribution analytics company ClearSaleing by e-Commerce infrastructure and services company GSI Commerce. Read the release. Justin Evans, SVP Audience Insights, Collective GSI’s move into the advertising analytics arena emphasizes the trend among advertisers to take advantage of increasingly sophisticated ROI metrics. As data sources […]
Andrew Nibley was recently appointed CEO of Yieldex. From last week’s release, “Prior to joining Yieldex, Nibley was Chairman and CEO of WPP’s advertising and digital marketing agency Marsteller. He has also served as CEO at several digital media companies owned by media giants Vivendi, Bertelsmann and Reuters, including co-founding Reuters New Media.” Read more. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Time Merges Print and Digital Sales AdAge reports that Time is fusing the mighty forces of its print and digital corporate sales, the two units that handle the media giant’s biggest advertisers. Assuming the wheel of the hybrid vehicle is Leslie Picard, previously the […]
Gil Elbaz is CEO of Factual, an open data platform. AdExchanger.com: Looking at your experience when you sold Applied Semantics to Google (which became AdSense), what is relevant today with Factual? GE: Applied Semantics was founded to develop and take advantage of it’s natural language understanding technologies which extracted meaning from unstructured data, and AdSense […]
There appears to be good momentum in digital advertising for ad verification solutions, but where does it all end up? Can a “point solution” evolve into a sustainable, long-term business within the ad technology stack? I’d argue more “points” will need to be added – especially if these companies want to “exit.” But first, let […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hamman Heads To Chango Parting is always tough, especially when you started the display media group at your digital marketing agency. Dax Hamman is giving up the reigns on the display media group at iCrossing — acquired by Hearst this past summer for a […]
Wednesday, demand-side platform Turn announced the closing of a $20 million Series D round of funding led by Greenspring Associates and existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Shasta Ventures and Focus Ventures. Read the release. Turn CEO Bill Demas discussed plans for the new funds and industry trends. AdExchanger.com: Do you identify Turn as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Display Declaration Even as rivals Yahoo and Google claimed easy display revenue increases in 2010, AOL continued to struggle. The company was in the midst of a major overhaul of its ad systems and approach CEO Tim Armstrong cautioned many times. Over the […]
“Hey! That data is valuable – we want it back!” The recent blow-up between American Airlines and Orbitz may be the beginning of a larger trend as aggregators fight to keep participants in line and provide value for their co-operative (the airlines) and the consumer. In case you haven’t been keeping score at home, the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Millennial Money Having $27.5 million in its latest funding round, mobile ad network Millennial Media may just be up to the task of staying independent and staying in the game against the two competitors, Apple and Google. The company claims that revenue tripled last […]
Social targeting firm 33across announced a Series B, $9 million investment led by “Flybridge Capital Partners with participation from Series A investors, First Round Capital and QED Investors.” Read the release. 33across CEO Eric Wheeler discussed plans for the new funds and company strategy. AdExchanger.com: Can you drill down on the “Technology, Product and Sales […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. One Good Turn One of the early ad networks to morph into a DSP, Turn Inc. has closed a huge $20 million in Series D funding led by Greenspring Associates. Turn will use the new capital to fund its “explosive growth,” build up its […]
Yesterday, media buying solutions company [x+1] announced that it has raised a Series B round of financing to the tune of $10 million led by Intel Capital with additional funding coming from existing investors Advanced Technology Ventures, Blue Chip Venture Company and Hudson Venture Partners. According to the release, “the funding will be used to […]
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 Spanfeller Media Group CEO Jim Spanfeller who recently answered the following question during a conversation with AdExchanger.com… […]
