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Matt Sanchez is CEO of VideoEgg, a rich media advertising network. AdExchanger.com: Can you give us a sense of current momentum at VideoEgg? Any effects from the economy? Have clients changed their buying strategies? MS: We are delighted about the traction we are getting. 2008 revenue was up 110%. This year we are up more […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search, Schmidt, Display BusinessWeek’s Rob Hof goes inside the Mountain View headquarters of Google and is introduced to the human brains within the search engine that try to keep big G on top. Read the article. As an added bonus, Hof includes the transcripts […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DoubleClick Ad Exchange and AdWords View-Throughs Good news for the DoubleClick Ad Exchange – If you’re advertising on AdWords through the Google Content Network, a new attribution feature has been enabled showing view-through conversions. This will undoubtedly encourage more display buyers to buy through […]

Janneke Niessen is CEO of Improve Digital, a publisher yield optimization firm based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: How did Improve Digital begin? Publishers are facing a shift in the online advertising ecosystem where performance campaigns, ad networks and exchanges are playing a more and more dominant role. In 2007, over 40 percent of the […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a new column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Lancelot, Director of Professional Services at Invite Media, a buy-side optimization platform. In recent years, the traditional agency strategy for DR campaigns has been to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Quigo And Tacoda Names Cut In the speed of a tweet, AOL Advertising announced through its Twitter account that the Quigo and Tacoda names were company names non-grata. (All that trademark work for nothing!) OK, they didn’t announce on Twitter – it all starts […]

Gustav von Sydow is CEO and Founder of Burt, an advertising software company and makers of “Rich,” a campaign analytics tool focused on creative agencies. AdExchanger.com: Burt recently presented “Rich” at DEMO ’09. Why was it chosen to present? Can you discuss the value proposition? GvS: Right now, we think of Rich as an educational […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Dogster and $40 CPMs TechCrunch looks at a new partnership announced between dog lover social network, Dogster, and viral web publishing phenomenon, I Can Haz Cheeseburger. TC’s Sara Lacy says that Dogster has been wise to build relationships directly with advertisers as opposed to […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a new column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ted Shergalis is Chief Strategy Officer of [x+1], a buy side optimization platform. The benefits of real time exchanges to buy side participants are clear. Both […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP Spot Runner Suit Tossed David Kaplan of PaidContent reports that WPP’s suit against Spot Runner, “a web-based TV creative ad agency”, has been thrown out by a New York court. WPP had said in the suit that its investment in the start-up had […]

Matt Greitzer is VP of Search Marketing and Head of ATOM Systems at Razorfish. AdExchanger.com: What can you tell us about momentum in Razorfish’s ad exchange practice? Any year-over-year comparisons that you can draw? We’ve only been in market for about nine months, so it’s too early for year-over-year comparisons, but we’ve seen consistent month […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CPM Tea Party Shelby Bonnie, the CEO of Whiskey Media – and the co-founder of CNET – , says on TechCrunch that it’s time to kill the CPM as he speaks to his media publishing brethren who can’t seem to get a break as […]

Matt Spiegel is CEO of OMG Digital, the digital media buying division of Omnicom Group. Certainly, the new Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange will have big impact because it’s the first sizable pool of inventory which has real-time bidding – this is what we’ve been waiting for. Being able to buy using real-time bidding is important […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a new column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. In 2006, Greg Stuart, Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO, estimated that advertisers’ waste, that is, […]

Adam Cahill is SVP, Director of Digital Media at Hill Holliday, a full-service communications agency. What trends are you seeing from your digital media clients today? Two of the more interesting trends are social media listening and rapid response marketing, and although clients have been asking for these independently, they’re actually closely related. Our clients […]

Joanna L. O’Connell is Manager of Strategic Development, ATOM Systems, Razorfish. The word “transparency” seems to be everyone’s favorite word these days. Clients want it, publishers fear it, and networks – increasingly – boast that they offer it. I’d like to propose that we’re thinking about this word in the wrong way and suggest that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Talks Exchanges David Kaplan of PaidContent cornered AOL’s Jeff Levick at the OMMA conference in New York City this week and asked whether or not AOL would be interested in its own exchange – especially in light of the recent hoopla around the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $9 Million For Rubicon Project Rubicon Project brought in another $9 million in equity investment to “continue pursuing acquisitions and global expansion.” Leading in this round was GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund which invested $6 million investment with existing investors Clearstone Venture Partners and Mayfield […]

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 […]