Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ad:tech Party, Uh, Conference This Week This week, the annual San Francisco version of ad:tech comes to the cavernous Moscone Center in downtown SF. Lots of panels, likely lots of booths (exhibitor list here). And, free drinks and apps (edible kind) galore, as parties […]
MediaMath announced its acquisition of Adroit Interactive, an advertising technology company specializing in multi-variate creative, also known as dynamic ads. Read the release. MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki discussed the acquisition and Adroit’s technology. AdExchanger.com: For the creatives – such as those at creative agencies-, how do you make the case for Adroit’s technology being additive […]
Publisher yield optimization company, PubMatic, announced a $7.5 million Series C investment round led by existing investor Helion Venture Partners. Read the release. CEO Rajeev Goel discussed the funding and plans for the company. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a bit more about how your platform will manage both direct and non-guaranteed inventory? Why the move […]
“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 Teg Grenager, Founder and VP of Product at adap.tv. Online video advertising spending continues to grow rapidly, and it’s easy to see why. It’s practically the perfect […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Acquires Adroit Interactive Adroit Interactive – with multi-variate creative technology, an impressive client list and smart people – has been acquired by demand-side platform, MediaMath. Read more on ClickZ. Birds Of Feather Featured The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel looks at “birds of […]
FetchBack announced yesterday that it has launched a recommendation engine as part of its retargeting solution for advertisers. Read the release. FetchBack CEO Chad Little discussed the new product and recent developments in retargeting. AdExchanger.com: Please provide a “use case” on how FetchBack’s machine-learning technology works. The only use case we can provide now is […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Josh McFarland, CEO of TellApart, an ecommerce data and ads platform. Dear retargeting advertiser — We all agree online advertising needs a more comprehensive metric than the click. […]
In addition to joining its board, Jeff Pullen has been hired as President and COO of AudienceScience, the company announced. Read the release. Pullen discussed his new role and recent experience in the online advertising economy. AdExchanger.com: Where do you begin when putting together a company’s strategic roadmap? In regards to creating AudienceScience’s roadmap, where […]
Zvika Netter is CEO of Innovid, an online video technology platform. AdExchanger.com: How has the company pivoted its strategy since its inception? What have been some of the external factors at work? A year ago, we entered the market with an interactive video platform capable of turning any video into an engaging interactive experience. Towards […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Meeker Means More Mobile In an update to her Internet Report from late last year where she said 2010 would be the year of mobile, Mary Meeker spoke at an event at Google yesterday and delivered an “Internet Trends” report. Fear not, mobile is […]
Ad technology company, Resonate Networks, announced today that in its own study, attitudinal targeting showed up to a 4x lift when compared to demographic targeting. Read the release. Resonate Networks’ CEO Bryan Gernert discussed the finer points of attitudinal targeting. Where does attitudinal targeting fit within psychographic targeting (PeerSet, Mindset Media) and behavioral targeting? Attitudinal […]
Continuing our look at “Transparency and Exchanges” (see post), Yahoo! Right Media‘s Senior Director of Professional Services, Megan Pagliuca, discussed her company’s view in answer to the following question: Regarding the recent dust-up between an ad network and several publishers as highlighted in Mediaweek, is more transparency needed from exchanges, for example? Or should this […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Network And Publishers In Mediaweek Following last week’s article in which Mediaweek reporter Mike Shields identified several publishers who claimed that ad network, InterCLICK, had misrepresented their inventory, this week, each is given the Mediaweek microphone to state their case. Read more. InterCLICK […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO at LucidMedia. Since I run a venture-backed company, I spend more time with venture capitalists than any sane person should. Of late, one topic keeps […]
Following up Merkle’s presentation at the NexTargeting event hosted by [x+1] in March, demand-side platform, [x+1]. announced a broad partnership with customer relationship marketing agency, Merkle, as “the two companies will provide marketers with a truly integrated, analytics-based multichannel approach to customer acquisition.” Read the release. John Nardone, Chairman and CEO of [x+1], discussed the […]
Walter Knapp is COO of Lijit Networks, a search tool proving analytics to publishers and audience targeting to advertisers. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Lijit solving? It appears to be a couple of problems potentially. WK: You’re right there are really two problems that Lijit solves. The first is for publishers. If you think about it, […]
Greg Rogers is CEO of Pictela, a brand content distribution platform. AdExchanger.com: How is your Tacoda experience relevant to what you’re doing today with Pictela? GR: At Tacoda we developed a sophisticated targeting engine. Now that the industry can effectively reach the right people, the next step is to build an advanced messaging platform that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Selling And Exchanges Mediaweek’s Mike Shields says that several financial website publishers – such as Bloomberg, TheStreet.com and WSJ.com – dispute ad network InterCLICK’s assertions that it can re-sell their inventory. interCLICK president, Michael Katz, told Shields that his company had done nothing wrong […]
IPG Mediabrands’ agency trading desk, Cadreon, recently announced plans to track and verify audience in addition to integrating ad verification vendor technology. Read more on MediaPost. Cadreon’s VP of Media Technology Michael Brunick discussed the latest developments in the holding company’s trading desk strategies. AdExchanger.com: Regarding new audience verification strategy, Cadreon will use “various Research […]
OpenX announced a major expansion of its exchange strategy and infrastructure as it will partner with Orange-France Telecom Group to create the Orange Ad Market. According to a release, “The initial launch will take place in the second quarter of 2010 in the UK and France with planned launches following elsewhere in Orange’s European footprint.” […]
“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Jeff Hirsch, President and CEO, AudienceScience. A publisher that invests heavily in developing quality, valuable content correspondingly creates two primary assets that advertisers demand. The one we have grown most familiar with is space, or inventory. The one that […]
Doug Burke is General Manager of FatTail, an online advertising technology company. AdExhchanger.com: How did FatTail begin? DB: FatTail formed in 2001 to apply the tools and technologies of financial trading systems to the data rich world of online advertising. The founding team, which continues to lead the market’s innovations, had extensive experience in advanced […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online Video Ad Upfront The Upfront, as it has been known, is a time of year where marketers and broadcast media companies lock down big deals for the year. Mediaweek’s Mike Shields says that online video ad networks are out to “steal” a share […]
“Networking” is a column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Tyler Moebius, CEO of Adconion, an online advertising network. Traditionally, ad networks have been perceived as enablers, as tools advertisers and agencies can use to increase campaign efficiency, extend their reach and add scale. An agency […]
XA.net (formerly CPM Advisors) announced the results of a recent campaign results using eXelate data and XA.net’s platform, CPMatic.com. According to to the release, “A computer retailer accessing eXelate data on CPMatic.com using multi-day variable frequency caps saw a 92% ROI lift on the targeted campaign vs. a single-frequency-cap no-data control on the same site […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Better Advertising And The “i” Scott Meyer’s Better Advertising will be enabling the “i” as IPG Mediabrands’ Cadreon will use the new privacy icon initiative in an upcoming Microsoft campaign according to Wendy Davis of MediaPost. “The icon — an ‘i’ in a circle […]
Today, Google announced that it is enabling Google AdWords advertisers to remarket to its users by letting them cookie their users, and then buy display ad inventory that match those user cookies on the Google Content Network. Read the announcement by Google Product Manager Aitan Weinberg on the AdWords blog. Hello? Anyone there? This is […]
Jeff Wood is CEO of aiMatch, a publisher selling solution for direct and unsold inventory. AdExchanger.com: Looking back at your aQuantive/Accipiter experiences, what key learnings will you bring forward to aiMatch? JW: First, our greatest achievements in our past experience(s) came from being laser-focused on providing value to our customers. We have to continue to […]
Can a good sales presentation offset the impact of a very bad news week? That’s a question for Meta, which collected two guilty verdicts in court this week for failing to protect children and creating additive products.
Meet Clamor, a new social listening product that pulls cultural insights from online conversations in real time. Clamor helped Manscaped freshen up its marketing, including for this year’s Super Bowl.
Hotel chain Red Roof is using Zeta’s new voice-activated AI agent to guide its campaign creation, deployment timing and audience development.
Brave’s chief of ads Jean-Paul Schmetz on competition in the search and browser markets, the fallout from the Google Search antitrust ruling and whether AI search will help smaller upstarts compete with Big Tech.
Walmart and Vizio announced at NewFronts that unified account logins are coming to smart TVs using Vizio’s operating system.
The age-old question for streaming TV advertisers is, how to target the viewers they want while reaching the scale their businesses need. The quick-serve restaurant operator CKE, which owns Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, sought an answer in a case study with Attain and Amazon Ads.
