Technology

Andy Atherton is COO of Brand.net, an online advertising network. A senior agency executive who manages the digital account for an Ad Age 50 CPG manufacturer recently delivered the best line I have heard in a long time.  We were talking about Behavioral Targeting (BT) and he said, “In my experience BT is a much […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Thumbs Down On CPMs Lightening rod, David Koretz (AdExchanger.com Q&A), takes a less controversial position than usual and says that the CPM is dead save for a few large sites (WSJ, NY Times, etal.) which can still provide a unique branding experience for advertisers.  […]

Zach Coelius is CEO of Triggit, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: So what is Triggit – and where’d the name come from?  Are you a buying platform? A media buying services company? ZC: Triggit provides Real Time Bidding (RTB) technology and services to innovative marketers and their advertising agencies.   Specifically, Triggit’s technology individually prices […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Officially Spun As David Kaplan of PaidContent said from this twitter account, it was “not an auspicious day for AOL’s stock: ended down 0.68 percent at $23.51” in its opening day of trading. Erik Sherman of Bnet reviews recent analysis of the newly-minted […]

John Mracek is CEO of advertising technology company, NetSeer. NetSeer announced a new offering today called “concept-based” advertising. Read the release (PDF). Concept-based advertising sounds a lot like semantic or contextual. Is the “secret sauce” the real-time identification of concept categories like “Italian food” or “headphones”? The secret sauce is the ability to algorithmically, and […]

Henry Wong is CEO of Adgregate Markets, a transactional performance ad network and technology company. The company announced today that it ran its first mobile commerce campaign with NBC Universal using its ShopAds technology. Read the release. Generally speaking, when do you think mobile display advertising reaches significant scale and what may be some of […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Leathern, CEO of CPM Advisors, an online advertising optimization company. In late 2009, the story of Real-time bidding (RTB) in the display ad space appears to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Fuel For The Rocket Rocket Fuel has raised $2.85 million more in cash from “existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures, with participation from other backers and company executives” according to Joseph Tartakoff of PaidContent. Read more. To view the SEC filing, click here. Display Catching […]

“Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer of Undertone Networks. Over the last several months there have been numerous reports about fraud impacting all facets of the online advertising industry – publishers, networks, agencies – and ultimately, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mags Getting Digital Staci Kramer of PaidContent reports that five magazine publishers have made it official: they’re going after the e-reader market with open standards for the “technology, advertising and digital sales.” The five pubs – Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith), News Corp, and Time […]

“Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Andrew Pancer, Chief Operating Officer of Media6Degrees. It’s become a sport to bash ad networks over the past couple years, with panels and articles calling for publishers to “fire your network.” My personal favorite was […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Outside.In VC Pockets Neighborhood news/blog aggregator Outside.In announced that it rang the register with a $7 million round of financing with investors that include CNN, Union Square Ventures and Betaworks . As newspapers struggle to find a solution to drive revenue, local news solutions […]

John Childs-Eddy is VP of Business Development at Australian direct response ad network, Funbox. AdExchanger.com: How is the Australian ad network business different than ad network businesses in other parts of the world? JCE: It’s far less fragmented. The Australian market is essentially controlled by an oligopoly of a few main publishing players who work […]

“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 Paul Martino, CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. There is a widely held belief in the display advertising business that the only way to reach […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turner’s Jacobs On Audience Buying Turner’s Walker Jacobs talks to Mediaweek about a new tool used by the Turner direct sales team called Nexus which can help predict future performance of a client’s ad campaign using audience data sources include ComScore and @plan. In […]

“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 Ken Rona, PhD, V.P. Data Strategy and Client Analytics at [x+1]. The other day, I was speaking to an ad agency about use of third-party data in […]

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Yahoo! is on the warpath again today with its premium messaging as a blog post by Stephanie Dorman, Senior Director, Client Services and Operations, bangs the drum on the closing of DMX and the new “premium” focus for its Right Media Exchange: “We believe that the future of the Right Media Exchange lies in the […]

David Karnstedt is President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, a performance marketing company. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the key drivers for Efficient Frontier recently announcing expansion of its product line into display advertising? Our goal is to unify optimization across both search and display. There were several developments that led us to launch our […]

Murthy Nukala is CEO of Adchemy, a demand-side buying platform. AdExchanger.com: What is “de-averaging” as it relates to digital advertising and how does Adchemy “de-average”?  Would you say “addressable media” is an equivalent? MN: De-averaging summarizes a trend toward increasing the relevance of digital advertising. Today’s dominant online advertising model primarily relies on a one-size-fits-all approach […]

The funding hit parade has not abated as Boson-based, OwnerIQ, a targeting platform that uses ownership data points to effect client campaigns, and Bizo, an online B2B advertising company that uses its “bizographic” magic to target b2b audiences across inventory sources. CEO Jay Habegger told AdExchanger.com that this this funding round wasn’t as hard as […]

Toby Korner is VP, Account Management at [x+1], which released a new CPG-focused product today (Release here. More here from AdWeek.) AdExchanger.com: Why offer a CPG product? Curious your thoughts on product development for this as I assume you see identified CPG as low-hanging fruit for a reason – perhaps for brand dollars? TK: You […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Vizu Raises $6 Million+ Down economy? Not so much in the ad tech world. Fresh from its AdExchanger.com Q&A, online ad effectiveness firm Vizu announced it has raised $6.75 million from a group of investors including “iNovia Captial and Greycroft Partners with participation from […]

This post follows up on an article this week by MediaWeek’s Mike Shields in regards to concerns publishers have about agency demand-side platforms (DSPs). Read the article. In the article, Shields said that Rubicon Project met with some of these publishers. A Rubicon Project spokesperson provided the following responses. AdExchanger.com: Did Rubicon Project meet with […]

In a reflection of its shift toward a “premium” exchange strategy, Yahoo!’s Direct Media Exchange – acquired as part of the Right Media acquisition – is being shuttered effective January 2010. In an email, participating DMX publishers have been notified today: “Right Media will discontinue the DMX platform on January 31, 2010, so that we […]

Randy Nicolau is CEO of Demdex, a behavioral data management company. AdExchanger.com: What challenge is Demdex looking to solve in behavioral advertising data? RN: Demdex gives its clients the speed and flexibility to understand and adapt to that rapidly changing “audience data” marketplace. We help our clients better understand the value of the behavioral and […]

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Dan Beltramo is CEO of Vizu, an online advertising effectiveness research company. How did Vizu begin? And where did the name come from? Vizu began with the vision that market research could be made more widely available and useful by using the internet to make it much faster, easier, and less expensive to conduct. While […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publishers And The Agency DSP Web publishers fear agency demand-side platforms – that’s what the headline says anyway in a Mediaweek article by Mike Shields. Not all publishers were willing to go “on the record” for Shields regarding their concerns, but their hesitancy is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Grabbing TiVo Data According to Todd Spangler of Multichannel News, Google is looking to “combine second-by-second set-top data from TiVo with data from Dish Network, which will let the Web giant track the viewing habits associated with more than 5 million TV sets […]