In addition to running several vertical blog networks around subjects from tech to food to health, Federated Media has built up its tech side in the past year. The first anniversary of its acquisition of ad net operator and supply side platform Lijit is approaching and FM is preparing to start offering private exchanges to […]
Sam Decker is CEO of Mass Relevance, a social content management system for vertical channels. He spoke to AdExchanger.com recently about his company and industry trends. AdExchanger: First, please share a bit about your background… SD: Sure. The first third of my career was in startups in the Bay Area. Some were media startups, some […]
Well, if Facebook isn’t going to do it, maybe Twitter will? More data for informing the “interest graph” could be on its way to microblogging service Twitter as the company announced Tuesday its newest “Follow” button – a javascript “widget.” Widget alert! Tags-on-a-page! Twitter’s Brian Ellin explains in a post on his company’s blog: “Using […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Boots Some Ad Networks Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo announced from the Twitter blog that the company is booting specific ad network types. Costolo writes, “We will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Ad Platform Lurks All Things D’s Peter Kafka has unearthed what Twitter’s new ad platform will look like – it will look like Google’s according to Kafka’s sources. In addition to using 140 character or less ads, Kafka writes, “Twitter will work with […]
Is Twitter about to add contextual advertising? Seems like it as Twitter-watching AdRants noticed a well-known, beta tester checking out (and tweeting about) the new ad functionality – The New York Times’ Saul Hansell. Hansell tweets: “My last tweet was testing a new ad system that looks at what you Tweet about (like movies or […]
