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“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. In the last few months, those of us working in the world of ad exchanges have been bombarded by articles and discussions about issues that will directly affect our careers: privacy regulation, data sources, emerging business models and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. [x+1] Gets More Cash [x + 1] (read CEO John Nardone’s AdExchanger.com Q&A here) has received $2 million in additional funding according to PaidContent.org’s Tameka Kee. SEC filing here. kirshenbaum bond + partners Hires New CEO Fresh on the heels of news that MDC […]

Russell Glass is CEO of Bizo, a business-to-business ad network. AdExchanger.com: Judging from your June release, Bizo business appears to have momentum. Has B2B been slowed in the recession or never stopped? What are you expecting from the economy in the next 12 months? B2B has been hurt by the recession, but it has kept […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Traditional Media Revolts It appears traditional media companies are tired of their Nielsen main course and have decided to try something else from the menu. Bill Carter and Stuart Elliott of The New York Times cover a recent diabolical plot by the heads of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Former aQuantive Exec Turns VC Emily Steel interviews former Microsoft ad executive and aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews for the WSJ Digits blog. McAndrews is joining Seattle-based VC company, Madrona Venture Group, and will run a $250 million investment fund. You can read more from […]

Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, an online advertising provider. AdExchanger.com: PaperG is getting a lot of traction in the online news vertical. Why? VW: Flyerboard is based on one of the most popular methods of exchanging local news — the community bulletin board. It isn’t surprising to the PaperG team that Flyerboard has been […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Bull Found Martin Peers of The Wall Street Journal discusses the recent benefits of the Microsoft search deal to Yahoo! and suggests that it may be in a good position to capitalize on display. Peers says that “although Yahoo is taking the risky […]

Doug Knopper is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FreeWheel, an online video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the key learnings that you’re bringing forward from your experience as DoubleClick’s GM? DK: There are two key parallels that come through. One is the critical importance of building a strong team, which has been one […]

Paul Pellman is CEO of Click Forensics, a traffic quality management company. How is Click Forensics addressing the display advertising marketplace beyond clicks? While most of our clients are focused on the CPC space, we do have a number of ad network and publisher clients with significant CPM and more display-oriented businesses that see unique […]

John Trimble is CRO of Pandora, an internet radio service. AdExchanger.com: How important is display advertising to Pandora‘s overall revenue model? JT: We are genuinely in a unique position in the marketplace based on our ability to bring brands a digital multi-platform adverting solution with display, mobile and audio. The success of our display has […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Razorfish CEO On Acquisition CEO Bob Lord of Razorfish tells David Kaplan of PaidContent.org that he expects to fill a clear niche within VivaKi and believes that collaboration between Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia is logical. But, he expects to maintain a wall […]

Caleb Hill is SVP of Product at Unicast. AdExchanger.com: Given the competitive marketplace in rich media ad serving, where do you see Unicast fitting and how do you differentiate? CH: Unicast is an established interactive advertising and marketing technology company serving more than 120 top online publishers and advertising agencies around the globe. We have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Murdoch Turning To Subscriptions Building on recent comments by Rupert Murdoch that news may need to switch to a subscription model quickly, one of Murdoch’s properties, London’s Sunday Times, will either be turned to a subscription model or something closer to a pay-per-view/micro-transaction system […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Getting Hyper With IPG Mediabrands’ Geomentum IPG’s Mediabrands announced a new unit (or practice) today called Geomentum. Check out the new site here. With graphical arrows pointing upwards on the site, Mediabrands appears to have a clear vision on the opportunity in cross-channel, local […]

Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an online data exchange. AdExchanger.com: Regarding your new BlueKai Certification Program, ad networks and buying platforms must be excited – you’re performing lead gen for them, are you not? What is BlueKai getting? OT: Yes, the new program is definitely designed to drive agency leads directly to our partners. […]

Aaron Bell is CEO of AdRoll, an online co-operative, advertising network. AdExchanger.com: What’s been happening at AdRoll lately? Recession effects? While we’ve dialed down some of our own costs (ahem – postponing the order for the office 72” plasma screen to showcase our world domination metrics), we’ve actually seen double-digit monthly growth despite the dour […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $12.5 Million For MediaMath MediaMath announced today (Release here.) that it has rung the register and collected a cool $12.5 million to drive “continued expansion — with a focus on technology research and product development, executive and staff recruitment, tactical acquisitions, and geographic expansion.” […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Karin Blake, Senior Lead of Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. An Economist piece two weeks ago centered on the popular question of how social media companies will monetize their networks and whether or not banner advertising could be their revenue savior.  The explosive growth of users […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo!’s New PR Firm First, The New York Times runs an article by Brad Stone and Ashlee Vance offering insider details on what a great deal (follow closely) Microsoft thinks that Yahoo! received in handing over search to Microsoft. Yesterday , Kara Swisher on […]

Andy Cocker and Martin Kelly are co-Founders and Managing Partners of UK-based, Infectious Media Ltd. AdExchanger.com: How does the UK advertising marketplace perceive exchanges today?   What can be improved? IM: There’s still a lot of misinformation being peddled in the UK around Ad Exchanges. Some of this comes from Networks who probably feel that exchanges […]

Mike Lewis is President and Co-Founder of Ad-Juster, an ad server discrepancy management company. As you have said in your release, Ad-Juster looks to solve “two of the digital ad industries major pain points: 3rd party reporting and discrepancy identification.” Can you share momentum you have seen with Ad-Juster’s product in 2009? And, who needs […]

Demand-side platforms are becoming the rage. Whether you’re creating an agency platform strategy or offering white-label solutions for all ad buyers including ad networks, agencies or directs. So, what’s driving the media buying platform trend and when will Nintendo release its console version? I’ll leave the Nintendo version alone for now (Imagine “Dance Dance Revolution” […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The TV Upfront Show Turning To Exchanges? The heavily-publicized TV upfront “show” is winding down according to Anthony Crupi of MediaWeek and media chiefs are P.O.’d. Quoting an unnamed ad boss at a media company, presumably a network, the agencies were working hard to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Web Trends Eats WideMile For Its Insights Analytics provider, WebTrends, has bought multi-variate testing and site optimization company, WideMile for an unknown sum. Release here. Analytics companies are broadening their tool set to discover actionable, consumer insights for their clients. A blog post just […]

Another privacy piece on the behavioral ad network business has been launched – this time by The New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford. In her piece entitled, “Ads Follow Web Users, and Get Deeply Personal,” web ads are considered “Orwellian.” Good god. That’s over the top and reminiscent of other recent pieces in the media (like […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital GRPs for Brand Marketers Comscore and Microsoft announced today that they are “develop[ing] a digital media planning solution, named the Reach and Frequency Planner (RF Planner), which will allow brand advertisers to predict reach, frequency and audience composition at the ad placement level.” […]

Paul Edmondson is CEO of YieldBuild, a yield optimization company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe the momentum you’re seeing at YieldBuild. For example, how many participating publishers are a part of your optimization offering these days? We’re really happy with our growing publisher base. While we want to respect our publishers’ privacy, we can say that we […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search Retargeting Just Got Bigger Details on the forever imminent “Microsoft/Yahoo search deal” should happen today and AdAge claims that Yahoo! will run search ad sales for both companies. Also of note, according to AdAge’s Michael Learmonth, Yahoo!’s search retargeting product will now incorporate […]

Konrad Feldman is CEO of Quantcast, an online advertising solutions company. AdExchanger.com: Overall, what industry-wide trends are you seeing across your product lines in 2009? KF: From our vantage point we are seeing tremendous energy by brand advertisers and their publishing partners to unlock the value of real-time audiences. At the end of the day, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. TV Needs To Sell In Real-Time The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Vranica and Sam Schechner are reporting that the TV upfront for the four big networks is going to crater a whopping 10-15% – at least – as buyers like HP (quoted for the […]