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 […]
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 […]
Google won’t have to break up its ads business after being declared an online monopolist. Meanwhile, Amazon faces a lawsuit from the FTC alleging that it charged advertisers more than necessary for ecommerce ads.
Buy-side experts said it’s another example of a Big Tech platform taking advantage of the lack of transparency built into programmatic ad auctions. And they’re not optimistic change is coming.
This week, the Commerce Media Newsletter catches up with a startup from outside the world of data-driven advertising, but with an interesting position when it comes to ecommerce advertising. That’s Clearco, a Canadian fin tech company founded in 2015.
Halo Collar, a dog collar brand with direct-to-consumer origins, is preparing for its retail expansion by honing its first-party data strategy and incrementality measurement.
The company is launching an accelerator program to help tech vendors pitch their solutions in a way that makes sense to advertisers.
TWC is building a monetization model that treats weather as both a contextual and an emotional signal, and it’s using AI sales agents to bring it to market.
