John Bauschard is President of MediaBank Marketplaces and Tim Ogilvie is CEO of AdBuyer.com which was acquired by agency systems company, MediaBank, last week. Ogilvie becomes MediaBank’s new SVP of Product. Read the press release. The two discussed the acquisition and the strategy going-forward. Click below or scroll for more: Why MediaBank Is Buying AdBuyer […]
CEO Bill Wise’s MediaBank announced today that it has acquired demand-side platform AdBuyer.com (Read AdExchanger.com Q&As from 2009 and 2010). According to the MediaBank press release: “MediaBank will make the AdBuyer platform available to MediaBank partners via the MediaBank O|X and A|V media management systems, and will expand AdBuyer’s cross-channel capabilities across all major media—creating […]
At the recent AppNexus Summit, in addition to an announcement by AppNexus regarding new APIs which will allow partners to build their own tools on top of the company’s real-time ad platform, Microsoft outlined its plans for roll-out of its owned-and-operated display inventory through its exchange (see the new product page), which is powered by […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” Cathleen Ryan is Chief Results Officer, MEA | DIGITAL, partner of Arkitektive. Google has been trying to figure out how the get their hands in the brand dollar […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” John Montgomery is COO, North America of GroupM Interaction, a WPP Company. “This is a beta program running across a few verticals. Google appears to be pursuing the […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” Curt Hecht, CEO of VivaKi Nerve Center, a Publicis company “VivaKi has been advocating a reserved marketplace with Google dating back to our original partnership announcement in 2008. […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” Elizabeth Blair, CEO, Brand.net “My take is it is fantastic and about time. Brand advertisers’ needs haven’t changed. Their requests for brand-focused online advertising technology and services haven’t […]
Bruce Falck has joined Google’s demand-side platform Invite Media and will be leading the charge for sales as the unit’s sales director. It’s a role much like others across Google’s corporate structure of ad tech products such as DoubleClick Ad Exchange (where Lexi Reese and Michael Rubenstein had a similar role devoted to the Exchange.). […]
At ad:tech in San Francisco, Aol svp of publisher services, Dave Jacobs, discussed Advertising.com and Aol’s ad strategy with AdExchanger.com. At the show, Aol’s ADTECH unit announced ADTECH Lite “an ad management platform now available to small publishers and advertisers at no cost, reaffirming ADTECH’s commitment to help start-up and small businesses compete and grow […]
Hey, what’s this…? Looks like Amazon has started retargeting as last week’s news from analyst Ben Schachter of Macquerie Research (via GigaOm) may just be a hint at what’s happening inside the e-commerce giant. After visiting a few tech news sites where I’ve found many retargeting ads in the past, I visited 9 to 5 […]
Last Thursday, personalized ad technology company Criteo announced that it had hired former Huffington Post CRO, Aol and Yahoo! exec, Greg Coleman, to be its president. Read the release (PDF). Coleman spoke about the opportunity ahead with Criteo and his own recent experience in the online ad space. Click below or scroll for more: In […]
On Friday, UK-based video search engine and ad network Blinkx purchased U.S.-based ad network Burst Media for $30 million in cash and stock. According to the release, “The combination of the two companies will bring Blinkx’s 35 million hours of online video and TV to Burst’s audience of over 130 million unique users (source: comScore […]
The marketer speaks. And, this time it’s Verizon’s Patrick McLean at today’s NexTargeting event sponsored by at [x+1] in New York City. McLean, who leads Verizon Interactive, which is the digital marketing arm of Verizon, discussed how his marketing group is driving into the digital, data-driven future as well as scrambling over and around his […]
Ad network Rocket Fuel announced that it has raised an additional $6.6 million in funding led by Northgate Capital with participation from existing investors. Total funding to-date is $26.6 million. According to the release, “Rocket Fuel’s Series ‘C’ funding brings its overall corporate valuation to $160 million, and based on its current run‐rate for sales […]
A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo! announced its new “Search Direct” product which “predicts search results as fast as a person types, character by character, and presents those results” among other features. Read more on the Y! corp blog. Shashi Seth is the SVP of Search products at Yahoo!, Shashi Seth, discussed the implications of […]
Still more curation news in Google Search-land as the company says it’s extending its social search strategy and getting the user to help with better search results through recommendation. What’s the impact on display? More targeting opportunities, perhaps. As has been previously announced, Google will allow users to start blocking results. But in a blog […]
Yoav Izhar-Prato is CEO of Kenshoo, a digital marketing software company focused on search engine marketing and online advertising. AdExchanger.com: Beyond search marketing, in what other channels is Kenshoo buying today? What will you be adding in the future? YIP: Local has been a primary focus for Kenshoo for many years. We made the strategic […]
Jim Soss is CEO of Red Aril, a data management and audience optimization company.. AdExchanger.com: What’s your background? Why get into the startup world? JS: I began my career in enterprise software (prior to the Internet age), and I have been working specifically in the interactive marketing space for about 12 years now. Prior to […]
Social ad network RadiumOne announced that it has raised $21 million of Series B funding in a round led by Crosslink Capital. According to the release, “The latest funding round will primarily be used for international expansion and acquisitions. (…) The Company, which reached profitability in Q4, will use its existing and new capital for […]
Mario Diez is CEO of quadrantONE, a joint venture of Tribune Company, Gannett Co., Inc., Hearst Corporation and The New York Times Company, which offers exclusive ad inventory on news and information sites across U.S. local markets. AdExchanger.com: What has surprised you about QuadrantONE and its business model since you joined the company as head […]
Jeff Green is CEO of The Trade Desk, a demand-side platform for digital media. AdExchanger.com: We touched on it before, but what problem is The Trade Desk solving? We think there are two really difficult problems that we’re addressing. What is it worth to an advertiser to show an ad to this user, with these […]
Facebook’s list of approved ad networks for apps still doesn’t include Google’s AdSense. The news continues to swirl as apparently the list was finalized last week according to a post on Slashdot. This remains one, complicated story with huge stakes for both Facebook and Google. And, neither company is talking. Developers are pissed off and […]
Yesterday, the IAB announced its first-ever Data Council whose “initial agenda items include: Marketers & Agencies Education -An initiative that will address misinformation around data gathering and usage; Ecosystem Mapping – An effort to clarify the different kinds of data that can be collected through media buying; Data Lexicon – The creation of standard definitions […]
Yeeha! Let’s give this a try. It’s the IAB annual meeting Day 1 Live blog! Direct links: New IAB chairman Bob Carrigan speaks Google CEO Eric Schmidt Eric Schmidt audience Q&A Outgoing Chair David Moore accepts award; Rothenberg Roasted VIDEO: Bob Carrigan’s presentation courtesy of the IAB VIDEO: Eric Schmidt’s presentation courtesy of the IAB […]
On Wednesday, online advertising company interclick announced its 2010 financial results as the company’s revenues grew over 80% to $103 million for the year on net income of $4.1 million. Furthermore, according to a press release, “The Company estimates 2011 revenue and EBITDA will be approximately $140 million and $19 million, growing year-over-year by 38% […]
Rik van der Kooi is Corporate Vice President, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group at Microsoft. He discussed with AdExchanger.com the latest updates on Microsoft’s ad strategy especially as it relates to data-driven, digital advertising. AdExchanger.com: What’s the latest on Microsoft’s ad exchange strategy? Will AdECN re-appear? RvdK: Effectively that’s two questions. Let’s start with the […]
Today, demand-side platform (DSP) DataXu formally announced its mobile DSP capabilities. According to an article by MediaPost’s Mark Walsh, “The new platform also promises features such as advanced targeting, optimization that automatically allocates ad spending most efficiently, improved attribution metrics and analytics reporting across both the mobile Web and mobile applications.” Read more. DataXu CEO […]
“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s counterpoint column is written by Jacob Ross is Senior Director, Advertising Platforms, Demand Media Big news on both eBay and Microsoft today, and Eric Franchi did a great job of surfacing the importance of the news. However, it’s misleading to compare these two […]
AdExchanger.com spoke recently with CEO Todd Vernon and COO Walter Knapp of Lijit, a Boulder, Colorado-based company focused providing a search engine and other tools to long-and mid-tail publishers. In addition, publishers may choose to join Lijit’s ad network. Earlier this month, Lijit issued a release on company momentum. Read it here. AdExchanger.com: What momentum […]
Nikesh Desai is Founder of InvestingChannel, a vertical ad network and publisher services company. AdExchanger.com: How did the InvestingChannel begin? And how has the company pivoted since it was first started? ND: We started this business for a couple of key reasons, amongst others: The business was started as an advisory business designed to help […]
OpenX CTO Joel Meyer, who was named Prebid’s new chairman, previews the org’s next phase and helping publishers navigate competing agentic protocols.
Alphonso – LG’s ad tech division – finally has a way out of its legal drama with parent company LG Electronics. Actually, it has three potential options.
Much like the ecosystem of life that surrounds a blue whale, a market of AI SaaS vendors is springing up around the biggest AI companies. And AI data startup Micro1 is emblematic of the shifting nature of these early-stage AI vendors.
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Just in time for new TV programming to hit the screens in September, Nielsen is rolling out a few upgrades to its video measurement currency that will go live by the end of August
According to Horizon Media’s Bob Lord, most agencies are trying to solve the wrong problem by obsessing over cost efficiency at a time when AI has quietly unlocked something far more valuable: the ability to become a growth partner to advertisers.
