Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IPO For FriendFinder PaidContent’s Rafat Ali says that the update s-1 registration statement indicates that FriendFinder Networks has cut its original IPO plans in half and will now seek “only” $220 million. The original raise of $460 million was going to be used to […]
CPM Advisors’ CEO Rob Leathern is reporting that it has received a notice from Microsoft’s AdECN that the exchange is being shut down. “February 15, 2010 will be the final day that ads will be served,” reads the email sent to exchange members. View the complete note on CPM Advisors blog. Update: Leathern has learned […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Data-Driven U.S. Gov’t At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said during an interview that among his priorities is “transforming the FCC into a data-driven ’21st century agency.’” Read about it on the LA Times Tech blog. In spite […]
Feedback has been increasingly consistent within the large publisher community for the past few months. (Note: I’m not saying “premium publishers.” You can be premium and be small/targeted!) For large publishers looking to optimize display ad yield on their website, it’s no longer good enough for a yield optimization company to simply offer better CPMs […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bizo On Transparency Bizo and its CEO Russell Glass think they’ve got the right idea on transparency. In a Bizo blog post called “The Next Generation of Truly Transparent Ads,” Glass gives his answer to “What would it be like if with every ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pewing The Internet Pew Internet has released its latest findings from a survey conducted last month on “Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics.” Though it didn’t find many trends as most results were flat compared to the previous study, there is a cornucopia of […]
Aggregate Knowledge announced today that it raised $9 million in a round led by OVP Venture Partners and with additional participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, DAG Ventures, and its original existing angels. See the release. AdExchanger.com asked Martino about Aggregate Knowledge business and the funding environment for ad technology today. AdExchanger.com: In the […]
“Social Exchange” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of social media in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Andrew Pancer, Chief Operating Officer of Media6Degrees. As we head into 2010, privacy and brand safety will continue to remain at the forefront of marketer and consumer concerns. With these issues in mind, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Attributing Display Dotomi announced results from the use of its attribution technology which reiterates the impact strong attribution models can have in driving display or any digital media’s future growth. From the release: “Dotomi found display increased performance by an average of 20 percent […]
Today, the mobile ad network gravy train proved it has plenty of steam left in the engine as Apple bought Quattro Wireless for $275 million in a story first broken by All Things D’s Kara Swisher. The prediction by Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker that 2010 Internet trends will be led by Mobile appears correct – […]
“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. Historically, media value was determined by a relatively simple calculation: divide campaign cost by the number of persons reached within a specified target segment expressed in thousands. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Norman Becomes GroupM CEO The quotable Rob Norman, digital chief of the biggest media buying agency on the planet, GroupM, has become even chief-ier with his elevation to the CEO role at WPP’s GroupM according to Michael Bush of AdAge. Norman takes over for […]
Invite Media announced today that it has formally opened a London office led by former Right Media employee (they’re everywhere!), Paul Turner, as it looks to expand in the UK and Europe. Read the release. AdExchanger.com caught up with Invite Media COO Nat Turner about the announcement and its implications. AdExchanger.com: What factors went into choosing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Forbes On Rubicon Project Consortium According to a January article in Forbes, “In just two months EVP J.T. Batson has convinced 30 of the Web’s larger digital publishers to form a digital consortium where they’ll aim to sell online advertising at rates 60% to […]
What’s 369 pages long and contains everything you need to know about the evolving world of digital media optimization? That’s right! It’s the AdExchanger.com 2009 Year-End Report containing every Q&A from 2009. You have two flavors of downloads from which to choose. You can: Download All Q&As (PDF, 5.0 MB) Or, download your favorite parts: […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Karin Blake, Senior Lead of Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. Ten Predictions for 2010 200% growth in the DSP market. 25% failure in the DSP market. Online publishers take an offensive position in how/where their inventory is sold. Real-time creative optimization becomes and integration solution for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Agency Sign O’ The Times GM has finalized its agency dance partners (for now) and for the first time in nearly 100 years, Chevy campaign duties will be split by perennial GM agency service provider, IPG’s Campbell-Ewald, and newcomer Publicis. There are no favorites […]
Dean Vegliante is General Manager of Netmining, an online ad network and optimization company – and a division of Innovation Interactive which also owns SearchIgnite and 360i. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Netmining solving for its clients? Netmining helps marketers drive significantly more revenue from their websites and online advertising. That’s the heart of what we […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Your New T’s And C’s MediaPost’s Wendy Davis reviews the IAB and AAAAs proposed, new Terms & Conditions guidelines which evidently includes this: “Advertisers (and their agencies) can’t now decide to send a second ad to users simply because they already viewed a first […]
Today’s data nugget! How far along are we in this new data-rich world of ad exchanges and demand-side platforms? Not “too” if Google Trends is to be believed. In fact, in the United States., we’re still at 2007 levels when Google bought DoubleClick, Yahoo! bought Right Media and Microsoft acquired AdECN. The “F” bump you’ll […]
Yesterday, BlueKai announced the second edition of its BlueKai Pulse which looks at intent data across its data exchange through the end of November. The report offers insights on consumer buying trends much like the company’s new analytics tool, BlueKai In-Market Reports, which includes access to a a panel of 160 million unique users across […]
Patrick Keane is CEO of Associated Content, an online publishing platform. AdExchanger.com: Given AOL’s recent positioning in the content creation space, where does Associated Content fit? And, is it odd having Tim Armstrong as an advisor and competitor? PK: Tim remains an investor and friend of the company. I cannot comment about Tim or AOL’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Efficiency Kills From his company’s blog, Lotame’s Dan Reich references a recent manifesto/post by the IAB’s Randall Rothenberg who said, “technology succeeds in driving the cost of reaching the perfect audience down to zero.” Reich identifies a growing phenomena in the new demand-side platform […]
Fresh from its move to the NASDAQ, InterCLICK announced that it has succesfully placed “2,875,000 shares of common stock to a select group of institutional investors.” Given the sale price of $4.50 share, InterCLICK now has a cool $12 million in net proceeds to play with. Acquisitions? More tech? Feet on the street? We’ll see. […]
Dom Vidal is a partner at Index Ventures, which backs – among others – OpenX, Criteo and Adconion, an ad network. AdExchanger.com: What sets Index Ventures apart from other venture firms? DV: At Index, we invest in technology and life science companies from early through to the growth stage of their development. We’re global in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Partners Swarm ScanScout In a release, video ad network ScanScout said its partnering with a gaggle of “premium” brands including Warner Brothers, Warner Music and Marvel Comics to provide its video ad network services. Read the release. On Beet.tv, CEO Bill Day talks “engagement” […]
In today’s Google Investor Webcast, a team of Google execs focused on the company’s display advertising products including VP of Product Management, Neil Mohan, who addressed Google’s strategy for the Exchange. The on-demand version of the webcast (“December 15 Educational Webcast”) is available on Google’s IR site. Mohan’s presentation was an abbreviated version of the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CBS Lovin’ Ad Exchanges Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth breaks the supposed bad news for ad networks that CBS Interactive is showing the door to arbitrage in hopes of boosting direct ad sales, eliminating channel conflict and getting control of their data. The good news? […]
Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management at Google, announced on the Google blog that tomorrow (Tuesday, 12/15) at 10 a.m. PT, Google is “hosting an educational (live) webcast for analysts, investors and press about our display advertising business.” Similar to its September webcast which looked at recent innovations in search, this one promises to […]
Social ad targeting firm, Lotame, named Eric Porres it’s Chief Marketing Officer in a release today. Read it on the Lotame blog. Lotame also announced that it’s paying the piper (ComScore) to be included in the ComScore ad network report as the company looks to position itself against the reach of traditional ad networks. Porres […]
As performance takes center-stage in more advertising discussions, demands to solve fragmentation and cruddy measurement are reaching a fever pitch.
A word of caution to digital advertising companies, as they go all in on AI algorithms: They need to build these solutions with ownership, governance and accountability from the start – or AI could sink them with a single mistake.
To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.
Roblox is making its under-13 audience available to advertisers for the first time. And it named youth-focused ad marketplace SuperAwesome as its exclusive advertising partner for under-13 users.
Prebid is turning the page on what might be called its second chapter as the organization navigates some major changes in the digital advertising landscape and within its own ranks.
Performance CTV tech company Keynes launched an AI-powered platform. Tuckernuck says it can finally “pop open the hood” and see what’s working.
