Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Targeting Netezza? On the WSJ’s Venture Dispatch blog, Robert Armstrong talks “big data” and observes the consolidation taking place in the space such as EMC’s purchase of Greenplum recently. He writes, “Aster Data Systems Inc., Vertica Systems Group Inc., Netezza Corp. (every DSP and […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matt Shanahan, SVP of Strategy for Scout Analytics, a behavioral analytics platform for publishers. As Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley recently pointed out, 28% percent of consumers time is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Exchange From Chitika Chitika announced that it is the latest company to offer an exchange with a focus on local advertising. Called “LAX Local Advertising Exchange”, this has nothing to do with an airport in L.A. but leveraging publisher search data. From the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo!’s McGrory On Openness Gavin Dunaway interviews Yahoo! VP Ramsey McGrory about Right Media, Yahoo! and even McGrory’s army days in a comprehensive, two-part interview on Adotas. McGrory once again does not mince words in a not-so-veiled reference to Google when discussing the difference […]
Simon Aurik is Business Development Director Europe of Yieldivision, a media agency based in The Netherlands. AdExchanger.com: What is Yieldivision? SA: We are a new breed of agency with a technology which allows us to buy inventory across multiple sources (exchanges, adnetworks, direct pubs and ssp’s). Our technology enables us to base our media buying […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Time Inc Puts Up Paywall Nieman Journalism Lab reported yesterday that Time Inc. may have put up a paywall for Time Magazine’s online site. Joshua Benton writes, “On almost every story that comes from the magazine, there’s this phrase: “The following is an abridged […]
Ad verification company, AdSafe Media, announced a $7.5 million Series B round of financing led by Atlas Venture and includes existing investors Founder Collective among others. The funds will be used in part to roll out products Network Monitor 2.0 and Content Rating API. Read more in the release. Co-Founder and CRO Kent Wakeford discussed […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMind Offers Video Ad Tool MediaWeek’s Mike Shields writes that MediaMind (was Eyeblaster) is now delivering the Video Ad Selector tool to CBS as it looks to solve this problem: “Display ads are often too small, or too tucked away to the side to […]
Andrew Weissman is founder and COO at Betaworks, which invests in and operates Internet and digital media companies. AdExchanger.com: There’s been a lot of good buzz about Betaworks recently. Why do you think that’s the case? AW: Luck? Right time at the right place? Our companies speak for themselves; to the extent there is attention […]
AudienceScience announced that is has acquired ad network, Wunderloop, as AudienceScience looks to broaden its reach in the European market. According to the release, “Wunderloop offers the possibility to precisely reach target groups on the Internet and was the first company in Germany to qualify for the European Union-backed ‘EuroPriSe’ seal for exemplary privacy protection.” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Acquires All Travel Intenders For $700 Million Google is about to get its hands on travel search data as it announced the acquisition (for $700 million in cash) yesterday of ITA, a critical provider of search software to the airline industry for online […]
Real-time ad platform AppNexus and Collective, “a media and technology solutions provider for display advertising,” announced yesterday that Collective will integrate with AppNexus’ ad platform and leverage its tools and inventory, which includes the major ad exchanges like Google’s DoubleClick and Microsoft’s AdECN. Read the release. Collective EVP Jerome Fitzgibbons discussed the partnership and Collective […]
(Almost) All the big Google names came out on Tuesday to meet with members of the press and reiterate Google’s firm commitment to succeeding in display advertising. Execs presenting and answering questions were as follows – think of them as the Display Ad SWAT Team -or DA SWAT: Neal Mohan, VP of Product Management Henrique […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Brian O'Kelley, CEO at AppNexus. Ad networks are an integral part of today’s display advertising ecosystem and I find the oft-cited reports of their demise greatly exaggerated. In […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DSP Chango Gets $1.4 Million Demand-side platform Chango (AdExchanger.com Q&A) which is focused on bringing search and display together announced in a release that it has raised $1.4 million in Series A financing from “Metamorphic Ventures and Geoff Judge [which adds] to their existing […]
On Monday, DataXu released insights from a recent sample of client display ad campaigns that showed creative has more impact on conversions than context or audience. Read more on the DataXu blog about “Beyond Audience: What Drives Campaign Performance?” And, download the one-sheeter (PDF). Sandro Catanzaro, VP of Products at DataXu, discussed the study’s findings. […]
Tom Chavez is an entrepreneur, technologist, musician, and family man residing in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of Rapt Inc., and following the acquisition of Rapt by Microsoft, he served as General Manager of Microsoft Advertising’s Online Publisher Business Group. I’d like to take a moment to respond to Tolman Geffs recent query, […]
Click Forensics announced that today that it has closed a “$6 million Series C funding round led by Austin Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and Shasta Ventures.” Read the release. Click Forensics CEO Paul Pellman discussed the company’s strategy going forward. AdExchanger.com: With the $6 million, what can you share about what you’ll do […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Spanfeller Re-appears Jim Spanfeller’s new company is closing a $2 million investment round and that “backers include RRE Ventures, Greenhill SAVP, Softbank and Lerer Media Ventures,” according to Peter Kafka of All Things D. Kafka adds that the former Forbes.com CEO’s business strategy will […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Amiad Solomon, Founder & President at Peer39. Look up the word “remnant” in a dictionary and you’ll find definitions that pretty accurately describe how the word is used […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publisher Goes For Scarcity, Custom PaidContent’s David Kaplan writes that MSNBC.com’s new single-page, site redesign “promises to do an end with clicking on stories and on ads.” There still seems to be a bit of clicking when AdExchanger.com took a look but the MSNBC […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO at LucidMedia. Nearly every online marketer is concerned with transparency and brand safety. These seem to be the biggest roadblocks to brands embracing display. A […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brand Dollars Coming Brand dollars are coming online in a big way if Unilever CMO Keith Weed is to be believed. ClickZ’s Zach Rodgers covered the conference and says Weed suggested digital budgets will double in the coming year. Rodgers writes, “In some countries, […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Porres, CMO at Lotame. There’s been a lot of talk lately about the need for data transparency. That makes sense: With the increasing value of data collected […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IPG CEO Says Not So Fast Wait, maybe the economy isn’t bouncing back as quickly as everyone had hoped in the ad world? Michael Roth of ad holding company Interpublic Group tells Dow Jones Newswire, “We are encouraged by what we saw in the […]
Paul Cimino is CEO of Brilig, which formally announced its audience commerce platform today. Read the release. How has Brilig’s model pivoted since last we spoke a year ago? PC: The basic concept of our audience commerce platform and open marketplace hasn’t changed but the ecosystem around us has. A year ago the agencies we […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Omnicom On Digital Acquisitions Omnicom’s Jonathan Nelson says in an interview with Dow Jones Newswire that even though the company is focused on growing “organically” (pun? Nelson co-founded agency Organic), the ad holding company is seeing opportunity for digital acquisitions in certain regions saying, […]
Attitudinal targeting ad network Resonate Networks has announced a $5 million series A round of financing led by Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital. Read the release. Resonate Networks CEO Bryan Gernert discussed his company’s new funding and the data-driven advertising landscape. How is the funding environment today in ad tech? Is data resonating? While venture […]
Marc Poirier, co-founder and CMO, Acquisio, discussed his company’s new partnership with buy-side platform The Trade Desk which will integrate the company’s PPC platform into The Trade Desk’s platform (Read more in the release.). AdExchanger.com: This is the first time I’ve heard of a search PPC platform from one company being integrated into a DSP […]
