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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Web Trends Eats WideMile For Its Insights Analytics provider, WebTrends, has bought multi-variate testing and site optimization company, WideMile for an unknown sum. Release here. Analytics companies are broadening their tool set to discover actionable, consumer insights for their clients. A blog post just […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital GRPs for Brand Marketers Comscore and Microsoft announced today that they are “develop[ing] a digital media planning solution, named the Reach and Frequency Planner (RF Planner), which will allow brand advertisers to predict reach, frequency and audience composition at the ad placement level.” […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search Retargeting Just Got Bigger Details on the forever imminent “Microsoft/Yahoo search deal” should happen today and AdAge claims that Yahoo! will run search ad sales for both companies. Also of note, according to AdAge’s Michael Learmonth, Yahoo!’s search retargeting product will now incorporate […]

More earnings reports – ch-ching? Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer stepped up to the Microsoft Fiscal 4Q 2009 earnings microphone (see the release) and although he didn’t have a lot to say about advertising on the call – they’ve got a lotta stuff going on over there at MSFT – a few nuggets did slip out in […]

Jed Nahum is Director of Business Integration for AdECN and led Microsoft’s acquisition of AdECN. AdExchanger.com: Can you provide insight on current momentum and scale at AdECN? And, how is the Federated platform performing? What’s next? JN: Our federated platform is a real-time bidded exchange that allows massively scaled ad networks, ad brokers, and publisher […]

No, Federated Media has not suddenly become part of AdECN, and by association, Microsoft. Apparently, AdECN is ready to test its new ad exchange platform called the Federated System and is asking that interested ad networks come and test the new version of the advertising exchange before it reaches a wider public release in 2009 […]

Ad exchanges received a plug today in the New York Times when Stephanie Clifford wrote an article entitled “Leftover Ad Space? Exchanges Handle The Remnant” about companies looking to take advantage of the efficiencies of exchanges by building tools that enable online advertising traders much the same way traders stock exchanges depend on tools and […]