Technology

At last weekend’s Association of National Advertisers (ANA) event, the presentation by IBM’s Jon Iwata, who is the company’s SVP of Marketing and Communications, wasn’t what one might expect from a 100-year old company known for international business machines. It was about character. Iwata (see his bio) is a lifer at IBM having started there […]

Naveen Tewari is CEO and Founder of InMobi, a mobile advertising network. AdExchanger.com: InMobi purchased Sprout last year of course. How important is rich media to successful mobile campaigns today? Can an advertiser have a successful mobile campaign without rich media? NT: The importance of rich media is mostly determined by the objectives of the […]

Today, PubMatic produced its annual Ad Revenue Conference in New York City focused on the sell-side of the ad ecosystem. In a panel bringing together thought leaders who’ve “been busy” in the private marketplace or exchange space (whichever you prefer), Upstream Group’s Doug Weaver ably guided discussion about who’s buying and selling privately in audience-based […]

Yesterday, media company Federated Media announced the acquisition of Boulder, Colorado-based ad network and publisher technology company Lijit. Federated CEO Deanna Brown offered in a release, “Our combined relationships, proprietary tools and conversational marketing services will be invaluable to publishers and advertisers alike.” Read it. Lijit CEO Todd Vernon and COO Walter Knapp will become […]

Today, PubMatic announced that Kirk McDonald (LinkedIn), who was President, Digital of Time Inc, has joined the company as its President. Read the release. McDonald discussed his new role and the larger publisher landscape with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com:  Why is PubMatic the right next step for you? KM: Here’s the truth. I believe that the industry […]

Former AudienceScience executive Jeff Hirsch has announced that he is joining Santa Barbara, California-based Underdog Media as its CEO. Hirsch discussed his new role and his new company’s future plans with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Please share some details about the new role.  Why make the move? JH: It’s time for me to get back to basics […]

Murthy Nukala is CEO of Adchemy, an online advertising technology company specializing in search engine marketing tools for advertisers. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Nukala to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Adchemy today. AdExchanger.com: What would you […]

Bill Demas is CEO of Turn, a data and media management platform. In the first of a series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Demas to discuss his company, his views on the space and the state of Turn today. AdExchanger.com: What are Turn’s priorities for addressing each of the digital channels? […]

Hagen Wenzek is the newly-appointed CTO of IPG‘s Mediabrands unit. He recently discussed his new role and technology strategy for the agency with AdExchanger.com. At a high level, how will your experience at IBM help you create strategy in your new role as Mediabrands’ CTO? HW: I was at IBM for 12 years and my […]

Scott Spencer is Product Management Director of Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange. He discussed the new “direct deals” feature of his company’s ad exchange, which was announced here and here yesterday. How is “direct deals” different than “private ad slots”? These really are two different models, which we think are complementary. With private ad units, which […]

Brad Bender is Director of Product Management for Display at Google.  In an interview with AdExchanger.com, Bender recently touched on a few of the highlights from his presentation at the Citi Technology Conference on September 8 in New York City. AdExchanger.com: At the recent Citi tech conference, you were asked how Google would take the […]

Yesterday, Travel Ad Network announced the hiring of a new CEO – Nan-Kirsten Forte, formerly of health information site WebMD. According to the release, in Forte’s 13 years of service at WebMD, “she was instrumental in growing WebMD’s consumer audience from less than 1 million to over 100 million monthly unique users and a market […]

Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Bob Walczak is the former CEO of mobile ad network Ringleader Digital and currently runs Bump Equity, LLC. The latest change in Apple IOS 5 of eliminating the use of the UDID is a huge shift for the mobile application ad […]

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 Chris Lien, CEO of Marin Software, an advertising platform technology company. He recently answered a series […]

PRESS RELEASE

Forrester analyst Joanna O’Connell leads the charge – along with fellow analyst Michael Greene and others – in a report on data management platforms (DMPs). Her findings look at a number of companies providing DMP services in the data-driven advertising space. Among O’Connell’s observations on DMP integrations, “Be prepared for a time- and labor-intensive process […]

On Wednesday, marketing data services and technology company Acxiom announced that former Microsoft and aQuantive executive, Scott Howe, has been hired as the company’s CEO and President.  Read the release. Howe shared his thoughts on the new role and the industry with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: What attracted you to your new role as CEO and President […]

Adobe recently announced its enterprise content management system, known as Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP), which offers a series of integrated solutions (Customer Experience Solutions) across digital channels. Read the release. Loni Kao, Group Manager of Solution Marketing, Digital Enterprise, Adobe, discussed the announcement and its implications. AdExchanger.com: Do you see a fit between the […]

What’s this? Have the two rivals made up or established some form of detente? Google now lists Right Media on the approved list for global ad servers through Google Certified Networks. That’s new. And it means that if you’re using Right Media to serve your display ads or serve ads on behalf of clients, you […]

With the demand-side platform (DSP) model continuing to propagate, data sellers and data management providers are seeing up-close how the DSP is applying data to the targeting of users in display, mobile and video ad inventory today. From their data-centric point-of-view, AdExchanger.com wanted to know… how is the DSP model doing? In particular, we asked […]

Last week, ad network ad summos announced an agreement with automotive data company, Polk. According to the release, “With access to Polk’s vehicle make and model data, ad summos is able to determine the vehicle purchasing and ownership behaviors of individuals served online display ads.” Read the release. Polk’s Andrew Price, who is VP of […]

On Tuesday, Cox Digital Solutions (CDS) announced that it is adding a new brand, Appetite Media, to its portfolio of vertically-focused site networks. According to the release, Appetite Media will focus on offering “food lover” audiences to advertisers who also seek high-impact, “premium” placements. The company says that Appetite will bring together 22 million unique […]

Brian Lesser is CEO of Xaxis, a digital partner of GroupM agencies, and WPP Group company. To learn more, visit the new company website here. Lesser, previously GM of WPP’s Media Innovation Group, discussed Xaxis and its implications. AdExchanger.com: What is Xaxis? And how will it differentiate itself within the marketplace? BL: Xaxis is a […]

Yesterday, Collective announced AMP Exchange which it positions as a sell-side platform and says “allows publishers to create private exchanges using Real-Time Bidding (RTB) without separately managing reserved and pre-emptible inventory.” AppNexus is helping to provide the technology of the new offering. Read the release. Peter Longo of IDG Tech Network is quoted in the […]

Today, online ad technology firm MediaMind was acquired by DG (formerly DG Fastchannel) for $414 million. Read more coverage. MediaMind CEO Gal Trifon discussed the implications of the transaction with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Why is MediaMind a good fit for DG in your estimation? GT: I think why we became very excited about the fit is […]

In an interview with AdExchanger.com, sell-side platform CEO Rajeev Goel of PubMatic offered his views on Monday’s acquisition of its competitor Admeld by Google. Read full coverage of the acquisition here. AdExchanger.com: Generally speaking, what is your view on the impact of the acquisition on the ad ecosystem, and publishers specifically? RAJEEV GOEL: An acquisition […]

On Monday, Google announced the acquisition of Admeld, a sell-side platform which includes RTB’d inventory, real-time bidded tools for publishers and a list of big brand publisher clients. Read yesterday’s coverage. We asked a selection of ad industry participants their views on the following question: “What’s your take on Google’s acquisition of AdMeld?” Click below […]

Google VP of Product Neal Mohan, who helps drive advertising product strategy at the company, spoke to AdExchanger.com about today’s announcement regarding the acquisition of sell-side platform Admeld. AdExchanger.com: What will happen to the Admeld team post-acquisition? NM: One of the big drivers of the acquisition is, in fact, the team. We were incredibly impressed […]

According to The Official Google blog, Google has purchased AdMeld for a still-to-be disclosed sum. From the Google blog post and VP Neal Mohan: “By combining Admeld’s services, expertise and technology with Google’s offerings, we’re investing in what we hope will be an improved era of flexible ad management tools for major publishers. Together with […]

According to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, multiple sources tell him that sell-side platform AdMeld is being acquired for $400 million by Google – a very healthy number – especially if previous rumors of $150-200 million were true and AdMeld held out for more. Also, as Arrington points out, the company raised only $30 million in venture […]