“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Roland Cozzolino, CTO of MediaMath, an online advertising technology company. Whenever someone wants to understand the basics of RTB, I like to tell them that they need to understand […]
John Federman is president and CEO of Searchandise Commerce, an online media network for product manufacturers and their retail channel partners. How did Searchandise Commerce come together? Searchandise Commerce was founded in July 2008 by an executive team with extensive advertising, retail, search and high-tech experience. Our business model is based on the proven technique […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Buys VOIP Google has made its nearly weekly acquisition of a company for a sub $100 million price. This time it’s Global IP Solutions for $68.2 million according to MocoNews’ Joseph Tartikoff who adds that the company “sells technology used to deliver voice […]
Yahoo! officially opened up the pocketbook in an impressive way by acquiring Associated Content and getting its own content generating machine. Startups looking to be acquired should be jumping for joy as CEO Carol Bartz addresses her company’s content future in competition with companies like Demand Media and AOL’s Seed. There is also an important […]
Jesse Chenard is CEO at Image Space Media, an in-image ad network. AdExchanger.com: Given your experience at Tremor Media, what key learnings are you bringing with you to Image Space Media? In order to present a scalable offering to advertisers, we need to fit into their entire online and offline ecosystem. This means measuring results […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MySpace Simplifies Privacy In a battle of privacy policies, MySpace has simplified its privacy setting that enable users to control what is tracked and what isn’t of their online MySpace experience. The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel writes, “The new MySpace privacy controls, which […]
LucidMedia announced a new self-service version of its demand-side platform targeting agencies and advertisers. Read the release. Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO and Founder of LucidMedia, discussed the different facets of the announcement. Why do you think agencies want self-service? Aren’t they overwhelmed as it is and need full or at least “fuller” service? Yes, agency media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brand Marketer Invasion Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth reveals that brand marketers such as Unilever are invading Silicon Valley to keep track of the latest and greatest from technology companies that will impact their digital marketing mix. Unilever CMO Keith Weed tells Ad Age, “What […]
Though they aren’t big numbers in terms of the Internet’s hottest, three-word phrases, “demand-side platform” has come from nowhere to relative, online display advertising fame since January 1, 2010. Consider, if you will, the recent momentum for organic search traffic to AdExchanger.com when a phrase containing “demand side platform” is entered into a search engine […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. For anyone who has been watching the data space over the last year and a half, the explosion of […]
Alan Pearlstein is CEO and President of Cross Pixel Media, a data-centric marketing services company. AdExchanger.com: How about a little background? How did you get where you are today? AP: I have always been a direct response marketer by training. The first business I started was a mail order catalog, and in 2002 I launched […]
“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 Part II of a two-part column (Part I is here) written by Mike Afergan, CTO & SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions at Akamai. Mention ‘shopping data’ to an agency […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publicis Buys Back From Dentsu Publicis bought back 7.5 million of its own shares from ad holding company rival and shareholder Dentsu. Back in 2003, according to the Wall Street Journal, both companies had entered into a stock-swap agreement which gave each roughly 10% […]
Ad network and technology platform, Collective, released its “2010 Collective Display Advertising Study” here (PDF). Among the findings, “About two-thirds (64 percent) percent continue to use click-thru rates (CTRs) to evaluate ad network performance. The study finds a disparity between senior- and lower-level agency decision makers, with the latter relying heavily on CTRs and the […]
Targeting brand marketers looking for better insights, Undertone Networks has combined products offered by research firm Dynamic Logic, Comscore and others to create its Undertone Qualified Insights program, a “customer learning programs for marketers investing in large or ongoing campaigns.” Read the release. Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer of Undertone Networks, discussed the program and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Eyeblaster Dwelling Eyeblaster has released a new study on dwell time – the time that a user is exposed to an ad on a web page. Among the findings, “High Dwell [Rate] triples brand-related search, increases traffIc by 69%.” Need more? Read the release. […]
Online video ad marketplace, Adap.tv, announced on Wednesday that its marketplace was now real-time bidding-enabled. DSP partner [x+1], Publicis’ VivaKi and CineSport LLC each discussed its importance in the release here. The potential for marketers to track cookies across multiple supply sources as well as multiple channels presumably makes online advertising even more efficient than […]
On Wednesday, online ad network AudienceScience, announced the acquisition of Consorte Media, an ad network targeting Hispanics online. According to the release, “Consorte Media employees will become part of the AudienceScience team, and Consorte’s San Francisco headquarters will become the newest branch location of AudienceScience.” Read more. CEO Jeff Hirsch of AudienceScience discussed the acquisition […]
It’s finally available online! View the video – “A Few Good DSPs” – from last Monday’s presentation at the IAB Exchanges and Networks Marketplace by GCA Savvian’s Terence Kawaja.. And, see and hear Kawaja’s complete PPT presentation…
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Time Inc.’s McDonald On Data Digiday Daily’s Melinda Gipson covers Time Inc.’s president of Digital Kurt McDonald at the recent AudienceScience Targeting Summit. Rather than shying away from the challenges that online data presents publishers today, McDonald is choosing a pro-active approach. According to […]
Representatives Rick Boucher (Democrat, Virginia) and Cliff Stearns, (Republican, Florida) released their “discussion draft of legislation to assure the privacy of information about individuals both on the Internet and offline.” (Given the initial language from the release, it would seem that there is much more broader scope such as the offline direct marketing (catalogs etc.) […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Legislation Is Here At long last, legislative action in the U.S. is here for online advertising – at least as it relates to consumer privacy according to numerous sources including Emily Steel of The Wall Street Journal who writes, “The draft legislation proposes regulating […]
Alan Chapell, online ad privacy guru and President of Chapell & Associates, led a panel at today’s IAB Networks and Exchanges event today entitled, “Data, Transparency and Privacy.” Among the sound bytes: An interesting give-and-take between Mpire’s AdXpose CRO Kirby Winfield and Yahoo! VP Ramsey McGrory regarding the verification space that echoed throughout the panel. […]
At today’s Internet Advertising Bureau Networks and Exchanges Marketplace, Terence Kawaja, Managing Partner of investment bank GCA Savvian, provided an extensive industry overview called “Parsing the Ad Tech Value Chain,” which spanned nearly every ad tech company strategy in the value chain between advertisers and publishers. Among his predictions: only $400 million in revenues for […]
It’s time to gather up the most recent Q&As and send them out into the wild! Get insights and info from members of the digital ad ecosystem including publishers, advertisers, agencies, ad tech and data companies. AdExchanger.com presents Volume II of its Q&A report, a 271-page publication consisting of all the Q&A interviews on the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdReady Raises $5.3 Million According to a regulatory filing, online display advertising technology company, AdReady, has raised $5.3 million. Read a bit more on Northwest Innovation. The filing is here. Turning The AOL Ship Mediaweek’s Mike Shields reviews industry sentiment on AOL in light […]
Chris Sukornyk is CEO of Chango, an search and display demand-side platform. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Chango solving? CS: Search Marketers know how to make money from the Internet searchers they reach. They’ve got financial models, optimized keyword lists, optimized bid prices, and text ads tuned to get attention. If they can reach more searchers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Reports Q1 There was across the board decreases in overall display ad revenues in Q1 for AOL according to its latest earnings report yesterday. Display ad revs reached $125.6 million in Q1 2010 compared to $143.8 million in 2009. Instituting a scarcity strategy […]
Video ad serving and management company, FreeWheel, announced earlier this week that it had closed a $16.8 million Series C financing round led by Steamboat Ventures. Read more. Doug Knopper, co-founder and co-CEO of FreeWheel, discussed the investment and the company’s product line. AdExchanger.com: What were you looking for in terms of a strategic investor […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Healthy Investment Peacock Equity, the cleverly-named (who doesn’t love the Peacock?) $250 million fund founded by GE Capital and NBC Universal, has released $2.5 million dollars from its coffers into the checking account of health information company, Healthline, as part of its recent $14 […]
AdExchanger Senior Editors Alyssa Boyle and Anthony Vargas share their takeaways from three days chatting about agentic AI at POSSIBLE.
Generative AI search has pushed traffic off a cliff across most of the internet, but not on social platforms. Reddit included.
Domenic Venuto, indie agency Horizon Media’s chief product and data officer, sat down with AdExchanger during POSSIBLE at the Fontainebleau in Miami to unpack the role of AI in today’s media and advertising landscape.
Google announced new features and ad types for AI Max, its AI-based bidding product for search and shopping or sponsored product ads. The company also touted “hundreds of thousands” of advertisers using AI Max.
Meta’s Q1 call sounded like an AI and hardware pitch, but under the hood it was still about one thing: investing in AI to squeeze more money out of its ads business.
Alphabet earned $109.9 billion in Q1 this year, up from $90.2 billion a year ago. And that’s not even the truly gobsmacking number.
