Yesterday, PubMatic announced that it had acquired publisher yield optimizer Revinet, According to the release, PubMatic will a new office in Boston, 15 new employees, and a set of publishers in the news vertical “including The Christian Science Monitor, A.H. Belo, Boston Herald, The Sporting News, and more.” Read the release. PubMatic CEO Rajeev Goel […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. 575 Million Smackers Publicis has acquired the largest independent, digital, ad agencies left in Rosetta writes Ad Age’s Rupal Parekh and Kunur Patel. They add, “The deal means the third-largest agency holding company (Publicis) now owns three of the 10 top digital shops by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. FTC Talks Do-Not Track FTC’s David Vladeck presented his unit’s views on the online privacy debate and legislation at yesterday’s IAB Networks and Exchanges Marketplace. Vladeck spoke to Ad Age’s Edmund Lee after his speech and answered questions about the latest legislative efforts around […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. R U Sharing Video Ads? Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth looks at the online video ad and how marketers are increasingly mesmerized by “the share”. Learmonth notes the competitive set for video ad sharing companies, “A new generation of video-seeding firms that launched to provide […]
Veering away (temporarily) from his ecosystem landscape map for display advertising, LUMA Partners‘ Terence Kawaja has released his latest display-related endeavor after being inspired by a tweet from Brian Morrissey of DIGIDAY. Morrissey suggested there was opportunity for action figures and a board game, too. Yes. It’s a send-up of Monopoly – display ad style… […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Agencies Moving To Platforms Agency Horizon Media announced a new partnership with Adap.tv and its Adap.tv for Advertisers product which will be Horizon’s online video advertising campaign management system of choice. In addition, the companies said in a release: “Together Horizon Media and Adap.tv […]
Today, Yahoo! announced two new Smart Ads products – Smart Ads for Homepage and Smart Ads for Video. According to the Yahoo! Advertising blog Smart Ads for Homepage is powered by Dapper and Smart Ads for Video is powered by Yahoo! partner Mixpo (as well as some Dapper tech), and serves 15-second segments of in-banner […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Interclick Reports Revenue Surge Marketing services platform company interclick said that its “revenue was $23.8 million, an increase of 67% year-over-year.” in Q1 2011 (ended 3/31/11). The company also broke a little better than even and saw, “Gross profit margin was 46.7%, versus 44.9% […]
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.” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Clearspring To Acquire Online publisher tools and audience targeting company, Clearspring, announced yesterday that it has raised $20 million more dollars from investors. All Things D’s Liz Gannes reports that Clearspring will be on the acquisition warpath: “Clearspring co-founder and CEO Hooman Radfar said […]
