“The Video Audience” is a column written by members of the media community and focused on the evolving world of online video advertising. Today’s column is written by Cynthia Butler, Publisher Integration Engineer at Denver-based, SpotXchange, a video advertising technology company. I’ll give you two differences between display and video advertising: technology and people. Some […]
Yesterday, Adap.tv announced a new platform it’s calling “Adap.tv for Advertisers,” which it describes as a buy-side management system for online video advertising. The company says Interpublic Group‘s Mediabrands and its agency trading desk, Cadreon, is one of the first to leverage the new platform. Read the release. Adap.tv CEO Amir Ashkenazi discussed the announcement’s […]
Video ad marketplace SpotXchange – a portion of whose inventory is real-time biddable – announced the integration of a new optimization technology called “Otto” which it says will allow buyers to more efficiently buy video ads. In a release, the company claims that “it is the first video ad network to automatically optimize campaigns to […]
AdExchanger.com reached out to the video advertising, technology community for their predictions about the digital advertising ecosystem in 2011. Click a name below to begin, or scroll: Bill Day, CEO, Tremor Media Toby Gabriner, President, Adap.tv Scot McLernon, CRO, YuMe Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia Atul Patel, CEO, OneScreen Inc. Bill Day, CEO, Tremor Media As […]
Mike Shehan is CEO of SpotXchange, an online video advertising network. The company is announcing a new real-time bidding-enabled service for online video ads today. Read the release. AdExchanger.com: First, can you provide some background on SpotXchange? MS: SpotXchange is an online video advertising network that offers brand advertisers a scalable, efficient and measurable way […]
Video ad marketplace Adap.tv announced recently that it is seeing “a 92 percent average monthly growth rate for video ad views within its marketplace since the launch in February 2010”. Read the release. Adap.tv founder and VP of Product Teg Grenager provided some perspective on recent developments at his company. AdExchanger.com: Historically, there has been […]
Dan Greenberg is CEO of Sharethrough, a social video advertising and technology company. AdExchanger.com: Your bio notes that you were a teaching assistant in a Facebook class in Stanford in 2007. Why is this relevant to your new venture at Sharethrough? Also, gotta ask, how did you “grade” someone in a Facebook class? DG: The […]
Adam Singolda is CEO of Taboola, a video recommendation and advertising company. AdExchanger.com: It seems more and more content recommendation companies are getting into ads. Why does this make sense? AS: Advertisements that are suggested as content with high intent and context have long been the most productive and highest yielding online. Examples are Google […]
Publicis VivaKi’s Pool efforts appear to be paying off. ClickZ’s Jack Marshall reports that Google’s YouTube will add VivaKi’s Pool video ad format, known as the “ASq video advertising unit”, and joins Hulu, AOL, and Yahoo which had already announced adoption of the format in August. VivaKi’s video ad methodology allows consumers to select their […]
DataXu announced the next update to its demand-side platform known as DX2 which the company says, “measures, buys, and optimizes ad placements across online, video and mobile display channels, on a real time, impression-by-impression basis.” Read the release. CEO Mike Baker of demand-side platform DataXu discussed the new update to the company’s media buying platform. […]
