Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Akamai Internet Traffic Report Akamai released its 3rd quarter 2009 (it takes them a while to get the report together) “State of the Internet Report” which looks at the Internet using the lens of their edge servers which help deliver insights like “attack traffic, […]
In a discussion with AdExchanger.com, Emarketer‘s senior online advertising analyst, David Hallerman, looks at display advertising and current challenges in display ad research today. AdExchanger.com: Briefly, what does eMarketer’s most recent research say about expected ad spending trends in online display? And what are the drivers? Trends in online display ad spending point to its […]
Demand-side platform provider, CPM Advisors, announced a partnership today with BlueKai today which it says uniquely offers clients access to BlueKai’s in-market data directly within CPM Advisor’s CPMatic media buying platform. To date, CPM Advisors has been a part of BlueKai’s Certification program. Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to CPM Advisors CEO Rob Leathern more […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. VideoEgg On Profitability First Bizo, now VideoEgg is promoting their 2009 revenues as the video ad network says that it has seen a doubling of revs in the past year to $25 million in annual revenue for 2009 – plus “7 consecutive months of […]
“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. Many search marketers want to expand into the display ad exchanges but aren’t sure where to get started. Auction-based pricing looks familiar, but there is a dizzying […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Old People Like Display Recent research by the Yahoo Labs team suggests that, sure, display positively affects purchase – but wait! There’s more… According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “The research found an approximately 5 percent increase in spending among those who had seen […]
Flurry, a provider of mobile analytics and mobile ad network solutions, announced its latest round of funding – $7 million – which included InterWest Partners and existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital and Draper Richards. Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke with Flurry CEO Simon Khalaf about the recent raise and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Norman Becomes GroupM CEO The quotable Rob Norman, digital chief of the biggest media buying agency on the planet, GroupM, has become even chief-ier with his elevation to the CEO role at WPP’s GroupM according to Michael Bush of AdAge. Norman takes over for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Agency Sign O’ The Times GM has finalized its agency dance partners (for now) and for the first time in nearly 100 years, Chevy campaign duties will be split by perennial GM agency service provider, IPG’s Campbell-Ewald, and newcomer Publicis. There are no favorites […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Bill Demas, CEO of Turn Inc., a demand-side platform and ad network provider. As the first decade of the new millennium comes to a close, the online […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Thumbs Down On CPMs Lightening rod, David Koretz (AdExchanger.com Q&A), takes a less controversial position than usual and says that the CPM is dead save for a few large sites (WSJ, NY Times, etal.) which can still provide a unique branding experience for advertisers. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Officially Spun As David Kaplan of PaidContent said from this twitter account, it was “not an auspicious day for AOL’s stock: ended down 0.68 percent at $23.51” in its opening day of trading. Erik Sherman of Bnet reviews recent analysis of the newly-minted […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Leathern, CEO of CPM Advisors, an online advertising optimization company. In late 2009, the story of Real-time bidding (RTB) in the display ad space appears to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Fuel For The Rocket Rocket Fuel has raised $2.85 million more in cash from “existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures, with participation from other backers and company executives” according to Joseph Tartakoff of PaidContent. Read more. To view the SEC filing, click here. Display Catching […]
“Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Andrew Pancer, Chief Operating Officer of Media6Degrees. It’s become a sport to bash ad networks over the past couple years, with panels and articles calling for publishers to “fire your network.” My personal favorite was […]
“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 Paul Martino, CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. There is a widely held belief in the display advertising business that the only way to reach […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turner’s Jacobs On Audience Buying Turner’s Walker Jacobs talks to Mediaweek about a new tool used by the Turner direct sales team called Nexus which can help predict future performance of a client’s ad campaign using audience data sources include ComScore and @plan. In […]
“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 Ken Rona, PhD, V.P. Data Strategy and Client Analytics at [x+1]. The other day, I was speaking to an ad agency about use of third-party data in […]
Toby Korner is VP, Account Management at [x+1], which released a new CPG-focused product today (Release here. More here from AdWeek.) AdExchanger.com: Why offer a CPG product? Curious your thoughts on product development for this as I assume you see identified CPG as low-hanging fruit for a reason – perhaps for brand dollars? TK: You […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Vizu Raises $6 Million+ Down economy? Not so much in the ad tech world. Fresh from its AdExchanger.com Q&A, online ad effectiveness firm Vizu announced it has raised $6.75 million from a group of investors including “iNovia Captial and Greycroft Partners with participation from […]
This post follows up on an article this week by MediaWeek’s Mike Shields in regards to concerns publishers have about agency demand-side platforms (DSPs). Read the article. In the article, Shields said that Rubicon Project met with some of these publishers. A Rubicon Project spokesperson provided the following responses. AdExchanger.com: Did Rubicon Project meet with […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publishers And The Agency DSP Web publishers fear agency demand-side platforms – that’s what the headline says anyway in a Mediaweek article by Mike Shields. Not all publishers were willing to go “on the record” for Shields regarding their concerns, but their hesitancy is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Murdoch-Microsoft Machinations In an effort to undermine Google’s search dominance, Microsoft is reportedly in discussions with News Corp to be the only search engine allowed to index News Corp content. That’s over the top – let’s take it a step further. What if Microsoft […]
From the Official Google blog and the Teracent website’s home page, the news is finally confirmed: Google has purchased multi-variate display ad company, Teracent, after weeks of rumors. In the Google blog post, Neal Mohan, VP of Product Management and Joerg Heilig, Engineering Director commented said, “We’re looking forward to welcoming the Teracent team to […]
Bill Wise is Yahoo! VP/GM, Ad Platforms. Wise answered a few questions that follow up on yesterday’s announcement regarding Right Media’s new positioning. AdExchanger.com: When will Right Media have DSP capabilities? Right Media already has DSP capabilities by leveraging exchange inventory and linking and numerous decisioning, optimization, and analytics technology within the company, and has […]
How will agencies survive if there is no agency of record? After reading a recent Advertising Age story from Kunur Patel about “the dropping” of three digital agencies of record in favor of a competition of ideas between three others, one might justifiably wonder how is the agency going to survive in this climate. Have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Dentsu Stirs Haven’t heard too much about the DSP plans of Dentsu? Maybe the plans are on the way. According to Media.Asia’s Anita Davis, the Japanese agency holding company superpower is consolidating digital operations into Dentsu Digital Holdings, which is slated to launch on […]
Mike Collinson is Director, Marketing & Product Strategy, Mazda Canada Inc. When will brand marketer dollars finally shift online in a way that syncs with the overall time spent online versus other mediums? – For example, when there are better attribution models perhaps? MC: This is a complex question, I’ll try to be succinct. Budget […]
