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 […]
Efficient Frontier announced that it was getting in the demand-side platform game by adding a display media buying component to its paid search buying platform. According to the release, “The new display offering includes real-time bidding capabilities, which is dynamic bidding at the impression level, as well as a proven portfolio approach to optimization.” Read […]
RocketFuel announced that it is partnering with Dynamic Logic for its new Real Time Brand Optimzation solution which “optimizes the targeting of [brand marketer’s] campaigns based on familiar characteristics such as being in-market for a product or being favorable towards it.” Read the release. Richard Frankel, president of Rocket Fuel Inc. discussed the Dynamic Logic […]
“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Nick Talbert, Director of Product Marketing, Eyeblaster, a campaign management and advertising technology company. Search and display budgets decisions made within their silos will only yield non-scalable results. Attribution decisions need to be channel agnostic and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Asia And Platform Buying David Tiltman of Media.Asia looks at ad exchanges and platform-based buying of digital media in Asia and its growing momentum, or lack there of. Adam Hemming, GM at Zed Digital, tells Media.Asia, “I think the next six months will see […]
David S. Kidder is co-founder and CEO of Clickable, a search networks and social advertising buying platform. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Clickable solving today overall? DSK: Our goal at Clickable is to help businesses survive and thrive by simplifying online advertising success. We began in 2007 with Clickable Pro, our flagship product. Clickable Pro removed […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Reports Q1 Earnings The Wall Street Journal’s Nick Wingfield reports that Microsoft’s “revenue from its cash cow Windows division rose 28% from a year earlier to $4.42 billion.” (Read about it.) The company was easily profitable (<- understatement) in Q1 2010 earning over […]
Roy de Souza is CEO of ZEDO, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: One of the complaints about ad serving in general is the lack of innovation over the years. What’s your view? RS: You are right – ad serving did lack innovation for many years. However ZEDO has heard the demands of publishers’, and is […]
Former AOL Vice President Matt Prohaska was recently hired as CEO of North America by Smartclip, an online video ad network. Read the release. AdExchanger.com: How would you characterize Smartclip’s online video advertising network business model? Is it like a site rep firm? MP: It certainly is. Old-timers like me and many of our publisher […]
J.B. Rudelle is CEO of Criteo, a pay-per-click, personalized retargeting company. AdExchanger.com: Why move into the U.S. market now? JBR: Criteo spent 3 years focused on R&D, building the most robust and precise retargeting solution on the market. With almost 2 years of in market experience and over 400 customers successfully implementing our pay per […]
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, […]
OpenAI announced a CAPI, along with the public launch of its self-serve ads manager, as the latest features of its rapidly evolving ads business.
It’s been nearly four years since the Federal Trade Commission first accused Kochava of selling highly sensitive location data. Now, the two have finally reached a settlement.
Amazon has packaged a handful of upgrades to its ads measurement solutions, obviously catered to TV and streaming media advertisers.
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.
