Read more reaction on the launch of the new DoubleClick Ad Exchange, its benefits and any concerns from members of the online advertising ecosystem… 24/7 Real Media Acxiom AdBuyer.com AdMeld AdReady Aggregate Knowledge Audience Science Bluetie Brand.net Brilig ContextWeb/ADSDAQ DataXu eXelate Forbes.com Invite Media MediaMath RocketFuel Triggit TRAFFIQ Turn Undertone Networks [x+1] Yieldex Agency Reaction […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ComScore and Omniture (and Adobe) Fresh off being acquired by Adobe, Omniture announced a new partnership with ComScore aimed at unifiying reporting of website analytics and audience measurement. Is this another step toward a better attribution model? It can’t hurt. Jonathan Mendez tweets that […]
Darren Herman is the Founder and President of Varick Media Management, an audience and media buying platform, and a unit of MDC Partners. DH: We (at VMM) are excited about the promise of the next version of exchanges. A lot of talk has been around real-time bidding and Google should deliver on this. The impact […]
Nathan Woodman is the Managing Director of Adnetik, Havas’ Digital Trading Network. NW: AdX 2.0 brings massive supply liquidity to the bidded online display media space. Especially with the addition of AdSense real estate. Google is looking to create an environment where display ad buyers compete with text ad buyers for pieces of AdSense real […]
Michael Brunick is VP, Media Technology Director at Mediabrands Worldwide, a media buying and planning unit of Interpublic Group. MB: The rollout of Google’s updated DoubleClick Exchange offering – and the proliferation of other similar real time bidding platforms – marks a watershed moment in the progression towards truly dynamic, demand-driven advertising transactions. These mechanisms […]
Matt Greitzer is VP and Global Discipline Lead of Search Marketing at Razorfish. MG: I think it represents an industry tipping point. Google has already proven that they are the lead player in auction-based ad monetization. I think everyone is excited to see how they can apply their expertise to the next generation of biddable […]
Robbie Hills, CEO Asia Pacific, GroupM Search, a unit of WPP Group. The impact of Google DoubleClick’s Exchange is going to very much depend on the ability to behaviorally target, the markets they launch it in across the APAC region and the volume of inventory they can push through. Also if agencies are forced to […]
Adam Cahill is SVP, Director of Digital Media, Hill Holliday, a media and creative agency, and unit of Interpublic Group. AC: I think the launch of AdX 2.0 is an example of growing the pie as opposed to stealing share from a competitor because it’s going to bring lots of new sellers (AdSense and DART […]
David Smith is CEO of Mediasmith, a digital advertising media agency. The biggest impact will be the increased credibility and volume to the Exchange category. It should also give a big boost to the technology platforms like Turn, MediaMath and Invite which agencies are increasingly using to combine exchange purchasing with targeting options. Our concern […]
This is Part II of AdExchanger.com’s discussion with Neal Mohan, Google’s Vice President of Product Management, and Scott Spencer, Group Product Manager, regarding the official launch of the new DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Part I is here. (Today and tomorrow, we’ll have reaction to the launch from across the industry.) AdExchanger.com: What percentage of the inventory […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Job Tales Om Malik of GigaOm reads the research of former UBS and current Broadpoint.AmTech analyst, Ben Schachter, and gets his take on the tale of the company job boards of Yahoo! and Google, respectively. According to Schachter, Google has been showing its cards […]
This is part one of our meeting with Neal Mohan, Google’s Vice President of Product Management and Scott Spencer, Group Product Manager regarding the official launch today of the new DoubleClick Ad Exchange – read the post from Neal on the Google blog. Below, Neal gave us a background on the evolution of the exchange […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DoubleClick Ad Exchange Day The press coverage of today’s launch of the DoubleClick Ad Exchange is extensive. Paid Content’s David Kaplan quotes one agency executive who offers that the exchange should disintermediate “loathsome ad network arbitrage junkies.” Read more. The New York Times Miguel […]
Frank Weishaupt is VP North American Marketplaces at Yahoo!. One reason I love this business is that it’s always evolving. Change is essential to success in online advertising…especially when it comes to ad exchanges. As the needs of ad networks, publishers, agencies and advertisers continue to change, exchanges have had to stay ahead of every […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. TV Clicking Newteevee’s Chris Albrecht reports that Cablevision will be the first to have TV ads that have a “click here to learn more” button that TV viewers can “click” with their channel changer/clicker/sword. I’ve noticed this functionality on Time Warner’s service in New […]
Jason Glickman is CEO of Tremor Media, an online video advertising network. Adexchanger.com: On your website, you identify your #1 ranking in premium video views according to Comscore. What do you mean by “premium”? And, is there such a thing as non-premium video ad inventory? If so, does Tremor Media fill non-premium inventory and is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adobe Buys Omniture Adobe is going data! With a focus on creative with their core product suite of Photoshop and Illustrator as well as the entire Macromedia line bought in 2005, Adobe signals a change in strategic direction. According to The Wall Street Journal, […]
John Giuliani is Chairman and CEO of Dotomi, an online marketing agency. AdExchanger.com: What’s been happening at Dotomi in 2009? Any trends you can share on the client-side? Dotomi is very fortunate to be experiencing double digit growth in 2009 despite macro economic trends and a general decrease in overall advertising revenue. Marketers are looking […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting Reach Undertone Networks announced yesterday “U360 AudiencePlus™.” In an example from Undertone publishing partner A&E, the new offering is positioned as an audience retargeting solution which will retarget A&E visitors (cookied by Undertone), for example, when they visit other sites within the Undertone […]
DataXu came out of “stealth mode” today and stormed the stage at Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch 50 talent show. Among the nuggets to come from the presentation was a 150-200% improvement over “traditional” (digital) media buying methods using the DataXu real-time-bidding enabled platform according to presenting DataXu CEO Mike Baker. Baker also announced DataXu’s first major […]
Antony Taylor is VP of Display Platforms at Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange. AdExchanger.com: It feels like it’s very early in the understanding of display ad exchanges especially as it relates to feedback from attendees at recent conferences. AT: After a recent exchange panel, an attendee said to me, “None of it. I got none of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Not Everyone Wants AdSense Open Josh Dreller, VP of Media Technology for Fuor Digital, writes on the Search Engine Land blog that he was surprised that more SEMs who use the Google Content network weren’t upset by the recent announcement to open Content Network […]
Iggy Fanlo is CEO of AdBrite, an online advertising exchange. How’s business at AdBrite? Is the exchange model working? IF: The ad exchange model is very strong. We’re seeing incredible results from our targeting algorithms (black boxes). The addition of third party (open architecture) data and targeting algorithms is being implemented and the early results […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Transparency On Exchanges On ClickZ, Hill Holiday SVP, Director of Digital Media, Adam Cahill looks at the ad exchange space and says its time for more transparency so that buyers can see what website they’re getting. To date, many large publishers fear that unmasking […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. New demand-side platforms now make it possible to execute buying strategies and purchase directly across wide swaths of inventory, cutting out the middle-man aggregators. Agencies have to think about how this new technology impacts and changes their media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Media Contacts Picks Tribal Fusion Tribal Fusion is taking their relationship with Media Contacts, “the global interactive media network of Havas Digital, the interactive division of Havas Media” to another strategic level and will be supplying the agency with nearly every service an agency […]
Turn announced today that Bill Demas has been promoted to CEO of Turn, Inc., an online advertising platform and network company. Jim Barnett, who stepped down from the CEO role, will remain as Chairman. According to the company, this secession plan has been in the works for a while and Demas has been “deeply involved” […]
Michael Rubenstein, who managed the ongoing operations of Google Doubleclick’s ad exchange product (AdX), has joined cloud-computing and real-time advertising infrastructure company, AppNexus. Rubenstein told AdExchanger.com that after 3.5 years of growing AdX, it seemed like the right time to pursue his entrepreneurial instincts. At AppNexus, he’ll become the company’s President. He added that his […]
Helene Monat is President, AdSafe Media, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What challenge does AdSafe Media solve for marketers? HM: AdSafe Media was founded with the goal of helping brands implement safe and successful digital advertising strategies. While many brands and agencies have adopted best practices for advertising on the Internet, the complexities of the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The IDG Ad Network Spencer Ante of Businessweek looks at how traditional print publisher, IDG, has created an ad network that not only sells advertising for its own properties but other non-IDG properties, too, as well as distributes content to those properties. It’s a […]
It’s been nearly four years since the Federal Trade Commission first accused Kochava of selling highly sensitive location data. Now, the two have finally reached a settlement.
Amazon has packaged a handful of upgrades to its ads measurement solutions, obviously catered to TV and streaming media advertisers.
AdExchanger Senior Editors Alyssa Boyle and Anthony Vargas share their takeaways from three days chatting about agentic AI at POSSIBLE.
Generative AI search has pushed traffic off a cliff across most of the internet, but not on social platforms. Reddit included.
Domenic Venuto, indie agency Horizon Media’s chief product and data officer, sat down with AdExchanger during POSSIBLE at the Fontainebleau in Miami to unpack the role of AI in today’s media and advertising landscape.
Google announced new features and ad types for AI Max, its AI-based bidding product for search and shopping or sponsored product ads. The company also touted “hundreds of thousands” of advertisers using AI Max.
