Triggit announced its new self-service, demand-side platform for online display advertising today. Read more on TechCrunch. AdExchanger.com spoke to Triggit CEO Zach Coelius about the launch and his expectations for the product. AdExchanger.com: How different is this new platform then what you have been running to date? ZC: Our launch today is the beta version […]
Jeff Zwelling is CEO and Co-Founder of Convertro, a marketing metrics attribution company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Convertro trying to solve? JZ: Marketers today are in large part “flying blind” when it comes to properly allocating their marketing dollars among their various marketing channels. I say this because most advertisers are relying upon outdated tracking […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Tyler Fitch is Director of Ad Network Sales at hi5 Networks, Inc., a social media website. I know the AdMeld Partner Forum in NYC a couple of weeks ago has been mentioned multiple times already, but I wanted to give it […]
Quantcast announced a recent deal with MTV Networks in which Quantcast will offer “audience targeting capabilities on sites in MTVN’s domestic online portfolio, including MTV.com, VH1.com, ComedyCentral.com and Spike.com, as well as on partner sites in the company’s Tribes vertical ad network.” Read the release. Quantcast CRO Todd Teresi discussed the announcement and its cross-channel, […]
OpenAmplify recently announced research which showed that by using the company’s semantic technology, it was able to discover engagement levels for certain brand ads – such as Audi ads after the Super Bowl, in this case. Read the release. Mark Redgrave, CEO of OpenAmplify, discussed the findings with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Are brands such as Audi […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turn Climbs Aboard AdECN It’s ALIVE! AdECN is evidently humming with the RTB-infused Federated system as the Turn blog sheds light on the remarkably stealthy proceedings at Microsoft. (It’s hard for big Microsoft to be stealthy, right?) According to Turn Senior Director of Engineering […]
Creative optimization company, Tumri, announced in a release today what it calls a new cloud-based, “real-time marketing analytics solution” with the goal of simplifying “campaign launch and reduce time-to-value for the most common types of dynamic creative marketing campaigns.” Read the release. AdExchanger discussed the announcement with Tumri CEO Calvin Lui. AdExchanger.com: It would seem […]
“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Tim Ogilvie, CEO of AdBuyer.com, a demand-side optimization platform. “We sell. Or else.” — David Ogilvy The best thing a marketer can do for their business and their career is to transform their advertising expense to […]
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“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, CEO at Peer39. When watching an NFL or NASCAR event on TV, you expect that most of the commercials aired will be for beer, restaurants, shavers, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adap.tv Gets Video Ad Exchange Clients Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth covers the news that Adap.tv has signed Gannett, Omnicom and Publicis among others to its ad exchange. Trying to temper concerns about lower CPMs, Adap.tv’s CEO Amir Ashkenazi says that in comparison to display […]
AdExchanger.com discussed TagMan‘s new funding announcement (See release.) and recent momentum with Jonathan Baron, co-founder and general manager of Tagman. AdExchanger.com: What attributes did you look for in a funding partner? How have you found the funding climate? JB: We sought partners that had an understanding of the online ad marketplace such that they could […]
James Beriker was named CEO of Dapper, an online advertising technology company. Beriker’s previous roles include CEO at Efficient Frontier, a search engine marketing firm. See the story. Beriker discussed Dapper and his experience with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: AdWeek quoted you as saying, “It’s [the] beginning days of display is a very powerful direct response channel.” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Search Retargeting From his Bronte Media blog, Niki Scevak unearths Google search retargeting efforts as Google’s Inside AdSense blog quietly announced last week that a “few hours” of search queries will be used to help target AdSense display ads: “The technical way that […]
“Networking” is a column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Michael Katz, President, InterCLICK. Ok, I admit I didn’t come up with the phrase and I hate to be the bearer of bad news but (the top 25) networks aren’t going away anytime soon. Recently there […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. eXelate Releases Intender Report Data exchange, eXelate, released the “eXelate indeX, a research report based on audience interest and purchase intent trends observed by its data lab.” Among the findings, Apple’s iPad announcement ignited purchase intent for portable computing products – Google’s Nexus One […]
“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 Andy Monfried, CEO at Lotame. There’s been a lot of chatter in the marketplace of late on the evolving nature of DSPs, networks, SSPs, agencies, and data providers. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Omnicom Reports; Acquisitions Imminent? Agency holding company, Omnicom Group, reported Q4 earnings yesterday. Profit fell, but hey, there’s profit ($229.6 million worth). Organic revenue fell – but not as much as analysts expected. Read more from AdWeek. Also, it looks like Omnicom is on […]
David Kenny is Managing Partner of VivaKi, which combines the media and digital assets of the Publicis Groupe including Starcom, Zenith, Mediavest, Optimedia, Digitas, Razorfish and Denuo. AdExchanger.com: Everyone is talking about how agencies need to evolve media buying. Every major holding company has announced a media trading desk strategy. What areas of the workflow […]
“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. Demand Side Platforms (DSP) are hot! I can tell by the huge agency interest, and even more eager venture capitalists anxious to get […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DSP Revenues Power Higher It’s happened again! Another private ad tech company is reporting its financial progress – this time it’s demand-side platform [x+1]. The company said in a release, “Fourth quarter revenue increased 62 percent over the same period in 2008, while revenue […]
“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 Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. Last week the folks at Admeld threw a tremendous event on the topic of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) at the […]
After today’s announcement on the Google Blog by Neil Mohan regarding Publisher revenues through Google advertising products (also covered here by AdExchanger.com), AdExchanger.com asked Group Product Manager, Scott Spencer on DoubleClick Ad Exchange specifics. AdExchanger.com: How does the second-price auction work in DoubleClick Ad Exchange and why is this good for publishers? SS: AdX is […]
AdSafe Media recently released its first Safety Report that showed – when looking at display ad media across its platform – “58% of network traffic was ‘invisible’” and “29% of traffic was served to sites featuring UGC” among many data points. Read the release (PDF). And, you can download the report here (PDF – signup […]
This morning, Google released information on how publishers maximize revenues using the DoubleClick Ad Exchange as well as other Google products. The post by Neal Mohan, VP of Product Management, on the Google blog includes a one sheeter. View the post here. And, download the one-sheeter here. There’s not much that’s new here except for […]
“Networking” is a column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer of Undertone Networks. The media landscape continues to evolve as advertisers move away from impression-based demographic buying to audience-centric strategies. This shift recognizes that audiences more accurately reflect potential customers and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Display Starting To Pump In a BusinessWeek article by Douglas Macmillan, Doug Anmuth of Barclay’s Capital tells BW, “Display ads are likely to contribute a little more than $1 billion, or about 4% of Google’s (GOOG) total sales this year—an increase of as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Display Comeback Brian Morrissey pens “Display Ads Aim for a Banner Year” on AdWeek and says, “Banner ads, nearly given up for dead, are showing new life thanks to developments in the display ad business that could close the gap between ad spending […]
Resonate Networks announced that it has launched attitudinal targeting in a release on Wednesday. AdExchanger.com discussed the new targeting capabilities with Resonate Networks’ CEO Bryan Gernert. AdExchanger.com: Given the rich sources of social data available today, how important is social media to creating Resonate’s dataset? Or, is it important? BG: While social data is important […]
Michael Walrath is the former CEO of Yahoo!’s Right Media. I believe that there is a cycle of innovation at work in digital advertising. Where we are in the cycle at any given time depends on many factors, including the economy, availability of capital, supply and demand imbalances, M&A appetite, etc. Let’s take a look […]
