Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Patent Fighting Jeff Roberts covers the patent Yahoo!’s patent lawsuit on paidContent and breaks out the 10 patents here. Meanwhile, patent fight broke out into the blogosphere yesterday – mostly against Yahoo!. VC Fred Wilson said, “I am not writing this in defense of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mining The Data The Wall Street Journal covers a new loyalty program from Sears called “Shop Your Way Rewards” which essentially re-targets online shoppers in-store (you know, offline) and “promises customers generous freebies for repeat purchases, as long as they agree to share personal […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Standards For Mobile Display Mobile Marketing Association chief Greg Stuart discusses the new standardization efforts (known as “The Universal Mobile Ad Package”) going on within his industry organization – a process with which he’s familiar from his past experience at the IAB. In an […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic Adds To Mobility PubMatic announced the acquisition of MobiPrimo as the company looks to bolster its efforts in mobile in the sell-side platform (SSP) space. The release states, “The transaction will allow PubMatic’s mobile platform to integrate directly with the leading mobile networks, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. How Do I Subscribe? The online subscription model has moved beyond movies and Netflix as companies BirchBox, PetFlow and Dollar Shave Club (no, really) are aggregating consumers around particular interests. Former AzoogleAds guy and current PetFlow CEO Alex Zhardanovsky tells The NY Times, “This […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Ads at $1 Bil? According to an anonymous source, The Business Insider’s Henry Blodget hears that Amazon is trucking along at an ad run rate of $1 billion a year and is providing a serious challenge to Google in that regard. Blodget makes […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Verification Integration DoubleVerify is letting bidders on AppNexus real-time ad platform use its brand safety data to making decisions for display ad auctions. The release claims that benefits of the integration include: “Provide campaign specific brand-safety targeting parameters, general brand-safety tiers and specific sets […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Social Ads FTW TechCrunch says social ad network RadiumOne is looking for a $50 million fundraising round at a $500 million valuation. Not bad for a company that started in late 2010 (AdExchanger 2010 Q&A). TechCrunch’s Leena Rao adds, “We’re hearing that the company […]
Following up his question for 5 ad tech, platform panelists during the Tuesday session of the Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Annual Leadership Meeting (see the panel’s coverage), Tolman Geffs, Co-President of investment banking firm Jordan, Edmiston Group (JEGI) expands on his thinking for the AdExchanger audience. A question hit me hard during the IAB Summit […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Buddy Media Buys Buddy Media continues to dine at the table of social ad software as it puts its $54 million VC investment to use. Yesterday, the company announced the acquisition of UK-based Brighter Option. According to the release, Buddy Media claims that “Unlike […]
