Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Apple Teller Machine Apple made enough money in the fourth quarter to buy the startup ad tech ecosystem and ad holding company or two. From the release, “The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adjusting The Audience Algo If you want to target high net worth audiences, you may want to set your latest algo to target the tablet device. New data from Pew Research points to a quickly growing and potentially cash-rich demo if you compare tablet […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Targeting Showrooming Identifying yet another digitally-inspired buzzphrase – “showrooming” – The Wall Street Journal reports that mega-retailer Target has had enough of being the brick-and-mortar showroom for online retailers and its telling its vendors to either create products uniquely delivered to Target that better […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Vibrant Acquires Ad Network Yesterday, contextual ad network and technology company Vibrant Media announced the acquisition of in-image ad network Image Space Media (ISM). Long-rumored as a candidate for an IPO, Vibrant Media appears to be extending its case for the importance in online […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SOPA Wednesday Yesterday, in an effort to stop the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA), Internet destinations and digerati made their displeasure known that the U.S. government’s attempt to stop piracy was a step in the wrong direction – if not right off a cliff […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yang Out All Things D’s Peter Kafka notes the official announcement on the departure of Jerry Yang from his Yahoo! board seat and, presumably, the strategic control he had of the company – though he remains a holder of a significant amount of Yahoo!’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rubicon Adds COO, CFO Sell-side platform The Rubicon Project announced that Brian Barnum has been hired as CFO and COO. The former TNS and Business.com CFO emphasized his IPO experience in a press release. The release also noted the size of two acquisitions in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hotels And Ad Networks It’s another case echoing today’s tug-of-war in media with the online ad network model. Looking to cut out intermediaries such as Priceline.com, major hotels have banded together to create Roomkey.com. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Intermediaries usually retain 15% […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting Search With +1 On the Official Google blog, Google Fellow Amit Singhal discusses his favorite fruit (Chikoo) and what Google appears to position as the biggest change in search since its inception – the addition of Google+ and +1 data feeds in informing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Fox Digital Strategy VentureBeat gets a taste of what Fox News is thinking in regards to its digital strategy in 2012. No surprise – Fox’s cross-platform strategy centers around video. VentureBeat writes, “One of Fox’s first major moves Fox on this front is is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Glam IPO On Ad Age, sources tell Cotton Delo that Glam Media will try to go public in Q2 of this year. Delo writes, “Glam’s offering will also demonstrate Wall Street’s appetite for a true digital-media IPO. Vertical properties such as Zillow or WebMD […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Networks Are Alive And Well Mobile ad network Millennial Media says its ready to launch its initial public offering – and that means another company opens its financial kimono. All Things D’s Peter Kafka writes about the mobile ad network’s financials, “The company’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Chooses Tech With CEO Selection And the new Yahoo! CEO is…. former ebay/PayPal President Scott Thompson. Read the release. With the choice, Yahoo! appears to hold dear its tech roots as Thompson has a decidedly “tech” pedigree and includes being the CTO of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reviewing The SSP Following up its demand-side platform (DSP) report, Forrester has published a new missive on sell-side platforms (SSPs). Authored by analyst Michael Greene, he teases the report on the Forrester marketing blog saying, “The 6 vendors we reviewed – Admeld, AppNexus, Doubleclick […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital, Please -Wait, I Mean Advertising In a feature article, The Chicago Tribune’s Robert Channick covers momentum in the online advertising space in the Chicago area. Leo Burnett’s North American President says about digital, “We need to lead in this space, we need to […]
Sign-up for the AdExchanger.com Daily Newsletter here. It’s been quite a year on AdExchanger.com as events encompassing the ecosystem of advertisers, publishers, agencies, tech and data companies have not disappointed and included many twist and turns. In that spirit, please climb aboard the AdExchanger.com time machine and re-live the excitement as you sip on your […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Holster Your Weapons In a very co-operative-sounding press release, measurement and research rivals Nielsen and comScore made nice over a patent dispute which awards comScore four patents owned by Nielsen in exchange for a worldwide license to said patents and $19 million in comScore […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Targeting Auto Ads Video ad network TidalTV targets automotive marketers with its latest product launch as it will integrate audience targeting data from automotive data company Polk via Datalogix. According to the release, TidalTV claims, “Integrating Polk data directly and through Datalogix’s technology, TidalTV […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sparking Ad Sales In an Advertising Age article, Jim Spanfeller discusses Spanfeller Media Group and the success of its food-focused The Daily Meal site. Spanfeller admits to Ad Age’s Jason Del Rey that things didn’t going exactly as planned initially even though The Daily […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reviewing The Exit In the Wall Street Journal, reporters look at whether New York Times CEO Janet Robinson’s decision to leave the company was a result of missteps with digital strategy. The WSJ’s Russell Adams and Christopher Stewart write, “Executives under Ms. Robinson used […]
In a blog post yesterday, Microsoft publicly addressed its approach to channel partners (think demand-side platforms, ad networks, etc.), especially as it relates to the Microsoft Advertising Exchange. Eric Dahlberg, who is Director, US Network & Exchange Sales for Microsoft Advertising, emphasized the position that his company believed was the best choice among several options: […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. On Competing With Agencies Google VP of Product Neal Mohan takes a call from trade publication Campaign Asia-Pacific and talks display. On Google competing with agencies and going direct to clients, he says, “Google competing? Categorically no. Agencies are very close partners. In fact, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The DSP Wave Forrester Research published its latest “Wave” research report yesterday and even though there are hundreds of media buying companies using the DSP model across ad exchanges and other supply sources, Forrester’s criteria whittled the list down to seven, display-focused DSP companies […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Euro RTB London’s Infectious Media unlocks its own real-time bidding (RTB) data in a report titled “European RTB Insight Report.” Infectious’ Martin Kelly tells AdExchanger.com about the need for the report, “There’s still a dearth of information out there on the market and loads […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shopper Marketing M&A RichRelevance (AdExchanger.com Q&A in Feb. ’11) has acquired Searchandise (AdExchanger.com Q&A in May ’10) in yet another 2011 deal. Ad Age’s Jack Neff reports that “RichRelevance said the combined companies will serve 10 of the 25 biggest retailers on the web, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Knowledge Networks Acquired On Friday, market research company GfK Group announced the acquisition of ad effectiveness research company Knowledge Networks as yet another ecosystem company is assimilated. Knowledge Networks’ KN Dimestore has been in the same bucket as Vizu as both companies are looking […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adware Developments In the spirit of toolbar strategies from the days of yore, The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel discovers how certain developers have created new ways to suck in APIs, feeds and web pages and display them in a custom app with ads […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tremor Getting A GRP Nielsen is counting on Tremor Video to help push the GRP online as the two companies announced a partnership. The companies said in a press release that “the incorporation of data from Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings into [Tremor Video’s VideoHub […]
Rob Leathern is CEO of XA.net, an online media buying platform technology and tools company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Leathern to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of XA.net today. Click below or scroll down for more: Facebook […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Traditional DMP Audience platforms are infiltrating the traditional database marketing company as Epsilon announced yesterday that it’s getting into the online audience targeting business by partnering with Aggregate Knowledge. The company says that the new product called “Online Audience Central will bring together […]
