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  • Foundry President Kumaran Ramanathan.

    Foundry President On Its Journey From B2B Publisher To Data And Tech Provider

    Foundry, formerly known as IDG Communications, wants to shed its old identity and build a new reputation not as a digital publisher but as a provider of data and marketing tech, according to Foundry President Kumaran Ramanathan. Ramanathan spoke to AdExchanger about why Foundry walked away from open-web programmatic, how it’s fusing its first-party data with a marketing and data tech stack and its M&A ambitions.

  • Reddit Could Rake In $350M In Ad Revenue; IDG Communications Acquires Kickfire

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reddit And Weep Reddit could clear $350 million in ad revenue this year, double its earnings from 2020. But Reddit’s percent-growth rate is high because revenue is relatively low; Pinterest has a similar number of active users, but earned $1.1 billion in the first […]

  • We Need To Stop Chasing Scale And Focus On Specificity

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pete Longo, CEO of US Media at IDG Communications. It’s a data-driven world, and digital ad buyers still rely on the legacy notion that “scale” is necessary to harness as many eyeballs and as much […]

  • Tech Publisher IDG Communications Adds Scale To Native

    IDG Communications, publisher of more than 1,000 tech websites including PCWorld, TechHive and CIO.com, is launching a native platform Wednesday. The platform will span across all its properties and include contextual placements such as in-feed video or links to branded content created by IDG’s team. IDG is embracing native because it better aligns with how […]