Technology

Update 4:00 ET: In a recently-released blog post, Mozilla VP of content services Darren Herman announced the kick-off of an experimental program called Directory Tiles. Normally, when Firefox users open a new tab, they see tiles featuring images from sites they’d visited in the past. New users with no Firefox surfing history will, upon opening the […]

FreeWheel, a technology and services company cofounded seven years ago by Jonathan Heller, Doug Knopper and Diane Yu, helps media companies like NBCUniversal and Viacom connect TV buyers with premium digital video inventory. It also worked with Amazon to help power video ad content for the ecommerce giant. Knopper, who also serves as FreeWheel’s co-CEO, […]

Google is injecting real-time metrics into its DoubleClick ad business via a partnership with comScore, the Mountain View, Calif., company said Tuesday. On day two of the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting, Neal Mohan, Google’s VP of display advertising, outlined the challenges marketers face in measuring the results of digital ad campaigns. “Existing frameworks don’t do a […]

It’s a tumultuous time for the usually staid ad-tech subsector of sell-side platforms (SSPs). As The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (registration required), PubMatic will chase direct competitor Rubicon Project into the public markets, seeking a valuation of more than $1 billion. Additionally, PubMatic has replaced its top marketer, Larry Harris, with Razorfish and […]

As ecommerce takes off globally, retargeting technology and demand-side platform (DSP) provider RTB House, which works with brands in 29 markets, is educating international advertisers about programmatic buying and RTB. Programmatic buying and RTB in Europe has benefitted from the increase in ecommerce and the growth of the international fashion industry. RTB House started in 2012 in […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) kicked off day one of the Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM) by rallying advertisers to raise the bar on marketing. To do this, however, marketers and advertisers need to be more vigilant around traffic fraud. Additionally, they must also realize that consumer attention spans, especially in mobile, are short. Holding Agencies […]

Location-based marketing technology company MomentFeed is betting big on the hyper-local search and marketing movement. Founded in 2010, the Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) company has raised $3 million in seed funding and recently closed a $6 million Series A round. According to its chairman and CEO Robert Blatt, MomentFeed is “the first company to […]

The distinction between an ad exchange and a supply-side platform (SSP) has become muddled as the once disparate but complementary technologies have merged. Rubicon Project’s description of its offering as an “Advertising Automation Cloud” in its S-1 filed Tuesday underscored that shift and showed how companies originating as SSPs have attempted to shed the label. […]

As Google continues to expand its efforts in search, display, video and mobile, and address consumers across digital marketing channels, the company has obvious aspirations to become a more holistic solution for marketers. The seeds of Google’s marketing – not just advertising – plans could be linked even to the name of its platform: the DoubleClick Digital […]

Google’s shift of ads and commerce chief Susan Wojcicki Wednesday to SVP of YouTube, which has 20.5% stake in the US video ad market, and which eMarketer estimated had $5.6 billion in gross ad revenue last year, comes at a critical time for the online video platform. With Wojcicki’s appointment, Salar Kamangar, SVP of YouTube […]

Rubicon Project’s Tuesday IPO filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was a widely anticipated moment of financial transparency for the sell-side platform (SSP), but it wasn’t the first programmatic player to initiate a public offering. Rocket Fuel and Criteo both went public last fall, creating an interesting point of comparison for Rubicon […]

Although national automotive ad budgets are often planned three years in advance, the successes in digital media and marketing on local campaigns have brand managers rethinking those appropriations more frequently. Such was the case with Toyota’s Scion line, a brand designed for younger auto buyers. “Come March, we will likely have discussions as for how […]

Bizo, a maker of B2B digital media and marketing solutions, is betting on the growing importance of paid media to marketing tech. After citing Q4 gross revenue of $12.4 million and a $50 million annual run rate with media costs that average in the 35-40% range, Bizo’s CEO Russ Glass said Bizo for Marketing Automation, […]

At long last, sell-side platform (or do you say “ad exchange” or “marketplace”?) Rubicon Project has filed it’s S-1 Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission in preparation for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company is looking to raise $100 million. It has yet to reveal pricing for its offering so no […]

EBay and Acxiom on Monday forged a partnership to bring Direct Matching services to European advertisers. “Direct Matching” connects eBay’s transactional-level data with Acxiom’s access to third-party datasets, as well as brands’ own customer and prospective databases to identify potential matches for targeting purposes. This represents Acxiom’s latest move as it attempts to expand the […]

WPP Group’s addressable media unit, Xaxis, has acquired Netherlands-based BannerConnect, a 10-year-old company that evolved from its roots as a traditional publisher network to embrace the exchange-buying trend. BannerConnect has headquarters in Sittard and satellite offices in London and Amsterdam. In addition to bringing on the 40 employees in those locations, Xaxis gets technologies for […]

John Sculley, the former Apple and Pepsi CEO, joined David Sable, global CEO of agency Y&R, Jessica Gelman, VP of customer marketing and strategy for Kraft Sports Group (which owns the New England Patriots professional football franchise) and others Thursday in New York for a discussion about the way data has changed the marketing “message.” […]

One of the many highlights of last week’s Industry Preview 2014 conference, which highlighted some of the best and brightest thinking in digital marketing technology, was the “Data Management Platforms” panel discussion moderated by AdExchanger’s Director of Research, Joanna O’Connell. See the panel: Participants included: Scott Howe, CEO, Acxiom Omar Tawakol, CEO, BlueKai Bill Demas, […]

Video syndication firm News Distribution Network (NDN) has migrated to Google’s DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) ad server and will offer some video inventory through the DoubleClick Ad Exchange. The deal is noteworthy because it suggests Google is making some progress in diversifying its video supply beyond YouTube. Google, through a spokesperson, declined to comment specifically […]

Yesterday, mobile ad network Millennial Media announced the hire of industry – and programmatic-media – veteran Michael Barrett as its new CEO. As Barrett told AdExchanger’s Judith Aquino yesterday, “Buying programmatically is certainly a big interest with a lot of our advertisers, publishers and developing partners, and we’ll continue going down that path. [But] Millennial is also […]

If you’ve ever seen an online meme or a viral image (and these days who hasn’t?), chances are you either viewed it through the photo-sharing service Imgur (pronounced “imager”), or it was uploaded there first. Founded in 2009 by then-Ohio University computer science student Alan Schaaf, Imgur has seen its financial support structure evolve from […]

When Neustar, a company whose telecommunications infrastructure routes calls and texts across North America, purchased data-management platform (DMP) provider Aggregate Knowledge (AK) last October for $119 million in cash, analysts and industry insiders wondered – as they do with every acquisition – what the integrated solution would look like. For Neustar’s SVP of Marketing Services […]

AppNexus has laid off half its 44 part-time auditors as the company looks to streamline its operations in that area. The auditing department is responsible for hundreds of thousands of creative executions and pieces of inventory that run through AppNexus’ system. The team was constructed of a mix of full- and part-time auditors and contractors […]

Facebook CPM-based ad prices jumped more than 400% in Q4 2013, according to some 240 billion impressions analyzed in Adobe’s Q4 2013 Social Media Intelligence Report. However the holiday season delivered “warning signs” for Facebook in the form of tepid growth in the visits and revenue it’s driving to retail sites, relative to some of […]

Whether one defines Amazon as a technology company, a retailer or both, what marketers should really be paying attention to is the company’s growing position as a media company and how they can better play ball with the platform, insiders say. “Who can get a better CPM rate lower in the funnel than Google?” said […]

Yoyi Media, one of the major DSPs in China, will launch a data management platform called Data Bank for clients in early 2014, according to CEO Roy Zhou. “If you want a good result, regardless if you’re a direct response client or a branding client, you need to have very good data,” Zhou told AdExchanger. […]

The first Forrester Wave on lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) automation solutions released Tuesday singled out Oracle’s Eloqua and the still independent Marketo as marketplace leaders catering to large enterprises. As defined by Forrester, L2RM is essentially B2B marketing automation. Additionally, Act-On and Salesfusion were champions among solutions designed for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The report […]

Criteo, a French provider of retargeting solutions, announced Thursday that it has released the beta version of an in-app ad product that includes a deep-linking feature. In-app ads are becoming increasingly necessary as mobile users spend more time on apps instead of a mobile browser, said Criteo’s chief product officer, Jonathan Wolf. “Users spend 80% […]

Brad Rencher, SVP and GM of the digital marketing business unit at Adobe Systems, oversees the six-product-strong Adobe Marketing Cloud, which crossed the $1 billion mark in business for fiscal year 2013. Onstage at Industry Preview 2014, Rencher said that ad tech, marketing and enterprise technology are “becoming one and the same.” It’s certainly reflective […]

A data-management platform (DMP) panel held Wednesday at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview 2014 revealed the philosophical differences held by four major DMP providers in terms of how the technology should best be implemented and used. The panelists – CEOs Scott Howe of Acxiom, Omar Tawakol of BlueKai, Bill Demas of Turn and John Nardone of [x+1] […]