startups

As AI sweeps the tech landscape, new startups continue to emerge. Here are seven former ad tech execs’ thoughts on best AI practices and starting their own companies.

Super{set}, a venture studio led by Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya – co-founders of Krux back in the day – is bringing on serial entrepreneur and Rembrand CEO Omar Tawakol as a general partner.

Need ad creative? Here’s what you need to know about using a generative AI startup to make your ad. Plus: Reddit opens its books before a planned IPO.

Programmatic veterans are pivoting to become founders of privacy tech companies. Plus: Nielsen ONE and the currency battle continues leading up for the TV upfronts.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The “Solid” In Consolidation Are you sick of hearing about M&A already? TOO BAD! We’ve still got multiple deals being announced on the regular.  On Wednesday, the publisher services company OpenWeb – known for operating comment sections and targeting ads by user account IDs […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Reservations Donald Trump’s reelection campaign spent big money to book prime real estate on YouTube by grabbing the masthead in the days leading up to Nov. 3. But now that sort of real estate domination will no longer be an option. Google said […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Paolo Pironi, founder at Elevating Pioneers. Crises wipe out many startups, but those that survive emerge ever stronger. WhatsApp, Slack and Uber, for example, were all founded during the Great […]

An actor, AI expert and the former head of digital at CNBC walk into a bar. They create an analytics startup. There’s no punchline here – that really happened. (Maybe not the bar part.) Ed Norton, Daniel Nadler and Kevin Krim’s new company EDO announced Thursday it raised $12 million in Series A funding. The […]

Steve Katelman, EVP, Omnicom Media Group. took a slightly different tack with our round-up question on “When Is A Startup No Longer A Startup?” From his agency perch, Katelman opted for defining the startup. The “startup” company became famous in the late nineties during the dot.com boom/bust, and even though those days are long behind […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by  Greg Keller, Chief Operating Officer at LinkSmart. Green arrows up. Red arrows down. The distillation of large amounts of data into simple information that users can understand and take […]

Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a column devoted to an answer to a single question or topic – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is George John is CEO of Rocket Fuel, Inc., an online advertising network. He recently answered the […]

David Cohen’s TechStars went off without a hitch as the mentorship-driven, seed stage investment organization presented 11 new web and software startups in Boulder, Colorado today. Only one of the companies could be classified as “pure play” ad tech: out-of-home marketplace ADstruc (AdExchanger.com Q&A), which announced it is closing in on a fairly sizable initial […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Banking Bill: A Startup Killer The NextNY blog makes an impassioned plea to torpedo certain parts of Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd’s banking bill which will undermine the efforts of a critical part of the startup capital value chain in the U.S. – angel investors […]