With the launch of an Ads API access yesterday, LinkedIn joined a very small club of social companies that allow developers of outside platforms to customize and sell into their paid media products. The club shrinks further if you count only household names. Of the roughly 8 social companies with ad APIs, Facebook is the […]
While the media and tech press watch Facebook and Twitter minutely for their respective ad strategies to emerge in a more defined way, professional social network LinkedIn has been slowly growing its ad business through its Marketing Solutions unit. As the company pointed out in a research note released Friday, 72 percent of LinkedIn’s revenues […]
In contrast to the recent stumbles by Facebook, LinkedIn has done fairly well since filing its IPO (the stock was even up slightly on Tuesday, closing at $107 a share). But that doesn’t mean LinkedIn doesn’t have the same pressures to show a diversified source of revenues. And from the looks of things right now, […]
The digital advertising start-up world continues to play its siren song as the résumé pages of LinkedIn reveal moves and machinations within the industry. Over at Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange, Lauren Nemeth has left the building to take on the Director of Sales role at AppNexus. Highly respected within Big G, Nemeth brings her high-level […]
