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From the Official Google blog and the Teracent website’s home page, the news is finally confirmed: Google has purchased multi-variate display ad company, Teracent, after weeks of rumors. In the Google blog post, Neal Mohan, VP of Product Management and Joerg Heilig, Engineering Director commented said, “We’re looking forward to welcoming the Teracent team to […]

Seth Goldstein is the co-founder and CEO of SocialMedia, a social advertising platform. AdExchanger.com: AdKnowledge acquired SocialMedia.com’s ad network last week as noted here by TechCrunch. Where does this leave SocialMedia.com? We are excited about the transition of our ad network to Adknowledge. This move will allow SocialMedia.com to focus solely on its core business […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lead Gen IPO QuinStreet will be taking the Street by storm as they announced plans for a $250 initial public offering according to alarm:clock. The company is already profitable having logged $17 million in profits through the first half of the year on gross […]

This is a response to AdExchanger.com’s recent survey, “Industry Reaction: The Impact Of Right Media And The Importance Of Multiple, Large Exchanges.” Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center – Kurt Unkel, SVP Being the slacker who didn’t turn in his homework on time on this one has afforded me the opportunity to read the many excellent perspectives […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Privacy Prodding In DC The Hill’s Kim Hart checked in on hearings taking place in D.C. around consumer privacy online and covers Acxiom executive Jennifer Barrett’s testimony regarding, “1,500 possible data points about individual consumers” that Acxiom tracks. Barrett said that “Acxiom receives that […]

Given the announcement earlier this week from Yahoo!, the plot thickens as the display ad ecosystem evolves into demand-side platforms. In this survey of a broad, cross-section of the digital ad industry, AdExchanger.com looks back and looks ahead with the help of the industry. The questions… What has been the impact of Right Media Exchange? […]

And now.. The Demand-Side Platform reaction. The questions… What has been the impact of Right Media Exchange? In the future, how important is having at least two, liquid, large scale, ad exchanges in the display ad ecosystem? And why. AdBuyer.com Brilig CPM Advisors DataXu Invite Media Triggit Turn [x+1] View Intro and More Reactions >> […]

And now.. Ad Networks and Exchanges reaction. The questions… What has been the impact of Right Media Exchange? In the future, how important is having at least two, liquid, large scale, ad exchanges in the display ad ecosystem? And why. 24/7 Real Media AdBrite Bizo Brand.net ContextWeb/ADSDAQ InterCLICK LucidMedia Rocket Fuel TRAFFIQ Undertone Networks XTEND […]

And now.. Agency reaction. The questions… What has been the impact of Right Media Exchange? In the future, how important is having at least two, liquid, large scale, ad exchanges in the display ad ecosystem? And why. Havas’ Adnetik Hill Holliday Infectious Media Razorfish Varick Media View Intro and More Reactions >> View Demand-Side Platform […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. [x+1] Announces Media+1 In a release, [x+1] announced it’s new Media+1 platform – “a full-featured media targeting platform” for marketers and agencies as the audience buying platform arms race continues toward a more self-service endgame. The company added in the release: “The Media+1 platform, […]

TARGUSinfo and Invite Media announced a partnership today. Here is the release. Below is a Q&A on the announcement with David Helmreich is VP of interactive markets at TARGUSinfo and Nat Turner, COO and Founder at Invite Media. AdExchanger.com: What is meant in the release in regards to “accessing AdAdvisor data in real-time”? Is AdAdvisor […]

Jeff Crowe is Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners. AdExchanger.com: With investments in Brand.net and Turn, obviously Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) appears bullish on the digital media buying space. What drove NVP to invest in each of these companies? JC: Overall, we have been bullish on the digital advertising space for several years and continue […]

Bill Wise is Yahoo! VP/GM, Ad Platforms. Wise answered a few questions that follow up on yesterday’s announcement regarding Right Media’s new positioning. AdExchanger.com: When will Right Media have DSP capabilities? Right Media already has DSP capabilities by leveraging exchange inventory and linking and numerous decisioning, optimization, and analytics technology within the company, and has […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mike Walrath Exits Yahoo! SVP of Ad Strategy, Michael Walrath, left the company yesterday telling the WSJ’s Jessica Vascellaro that “it was the right time to ‘move on in my career’ and that he looks forward to ‘taking some time off and working with […]

Read the story by Abbey Klassen in AdAge: “Yahoo Rebrands Its Right Media Exchange as Premium“. More from Yahoo! VP/GM, Ad Platforms, Bill Wise on the Right Media blog here.

How will agencies survive if there is no agency of record? After reading a recent Advertising Age story from Kunur Patel about “the dropping” of three digital agencies of record in favor of a competition of ideas between three others, one might justifiably wonder how is the agency going to survive in this climate. Have […]

Eric Roza is President of DataLogix, an advertising data and technology company. AdExchnanger.com: Can you discuss trends you’re seeing in the data marketplace? ER: There’s no question that data is hot all of a sudden. But, candidly, the use of data to drive online advertising effectiveness is still in its infancy. To give you perspective […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Direct Selling Survey OpenX just release the results of a survey of its publishers who are selling advertising direct for a +$5 CPM. Lots of interesting data points in the survey. What do many of these publishers have in common: they’re “using a direct […]

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco chaired the Monaco Media Forum – YouTube channel here – in his diminutive principality this past week with luminaries from advertising taking part in panel discussions as well as ad tech companies showing their wares. (Post-show, cigarette boat tour video with Sean Connery here.) Among those on […]

Adi Orzel is CEO of Xtend Media, an online display advertising network. AdExchanger.com: How will ad networks need to change to remain viable? AO: I think that ad networks will need to rely much more on media buying, rather than developing their publisher networks, due to the fact that more and more publisher relationships will […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Dentsu Stirs Haven’t heard too much about the DSP plans of Dentsu? Maybe the plans are on the way. According to Media.Asia’s Anita Davis, the Japanese agency holding company superpower is consolidating digital operations into Dentsu Digital Holdings, which is slated to launch on […]

AdExchanger.com was able to catch up with AppNexus president Michael Rubenstein after his company’s recently announced “$5-million Inside, Up Round.” What’s all this AppNexus “gateway” talk, you ask? It’s official – AppNexus is a demand-side platform. Rubenstein was unequivocal when elaborating on what was meant in the release by the term “gateway.” He said that […]

Mike Collinson is Director, Marketing & Product Strategy, Mazda Canada Inc. When will brand marketer dollars finally shift online in a way that syncs with the overall time spent online versus other mediums? – For example, when there are better attribution models perhaps? MC: This is a complex question, I’ll try to be succinct. Budget […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hearst Has A Billion Dollars And you don’t. The NY Post’s Keith Kelly writes that the replacement of SVP Ronald Doerfler by Mitchell Scherzer may signal the beginning of a more aggressive digital acquisition strategy as the company looks to grow new revenue stream […]

The ad network, InterCLICK (get the ICLK quote from CNN Money), which recently moved to the NASDAQ with its publicly-traded stock, rang today’s opening bell at the NASDAQ Market Site in New York City. Michael Mathews, CEO and Michael Katz, President and Founder of interCLICK, Inc., were among the lucky ringers. The ad network model […]

CPM Advisors’ CEO Rob Leathern noted yesterday that you can’t target Yahoo! through Google AdWords or the new Google/DoubleClick Ad Exchange even though you can target the other 199 of the top 200 sites on the planet. Rob thinks their may be some mischievous engineers at work on Google’s side. From here, I wonder if […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. We Advertise Therefore We Regulate Given the recent moves by the EU, it would appear that Google is taking the stance that it needs to become more involved in regulation. The Guardian notes that Google is stepping up its relationship with the UK regulatory […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. The CEO of a major ad exchange recently likened the flow of data from real-time ad exchanges to a fire hose – I like to think of it as more of a broken water main. There is so […]

If reports are true, in a boon to advertising and technology companies in the rest of the world, The European Union appears to have effectively killed off any innovation for its native online advertising industry as the opt-in cookie law will be put into effect 18 months from now. More coverage from Tech Radar here. […]

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