Technology

Google’s much anticipated Q2 earnings report has arrived and shed some light on display advertising. Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget covered the earnings conference call and jotted down the following from the Google execs: “Display and particularly YouTube have performed very well this quarter. YouTube is now on a trajectory we’re very pleased with.” Nikesh […]

Rob Leathern is CEO of CPM Advisors. AdExchanger.com: CPM Advisors… so I take it you believe the CPM is not dead? RL: CPM Advisors (“CPMa”) typically works with advertisers who are optimizing to a CPA or CPC metric, but realize that they cannot get volume and scale unless they can tap into CPM advertising options. […]

Yesterday’s ContextWeb/AdClub event which brought together NYC-area advertisers, publishers and traders has already yielded results in the form of a great blog post from MDC Partners/Varick Media Management‘s Darren Herman. <Ripple dissolve to yesterday’s summary on AdExchanger.com> Toward the event’s close, Herman quizzed yesterday’s IPG/Publicis/OMG/WPP panel on how they are preparing their culture and employees […]

Andrew Pancer is Chief Operating Officer at Media6Degrees. AdExchanger.com: How would you characterize momentum in 2009 for Media6Degrees? AP: 2009 has been a great year for Media6°! We officially launched our commercial product late last fall and have been able to deliver fantastic results for our marketing partners. An example referenced in Adweek on 6/28/09 […]

From WSJ Digits blog, the post, “Does Size Matter When Measuring Online Audience?” explores the way in which Comscore and Nielsen count audience with Quantcast noticeably absent. Nielsen is claiming to have launched the “Largest, Most Representative Online Audience Measurement Panel in U.S.” MediaPost editor-at-large, Diane Mermigas did a Q&A back on July 1 with […]

Whoa, Nellie – full house! People are getting the message about new opportunities in display ad exchanges and platforms as an impressive crowd of nearly 400 attended today’s Times Center event in NYC entitled, “Agency Demand Platforms: Art vs. Science in a Real-Time World,” co-sponsored by ContextWeb/ADSDAQ and New York’s Ad Club. After intros by […]

John Donahue is Global Director of Business Intelligence Analytics for Omnicom Media Group. AdExchanger.com: From your agency perspective, what trends are you seeing in the marketplace? JD: Digital up, TV down. I think we’re in a position where the economy is causing everyone to seize up their budgets. What’s going to be interesting is not […]

According to the Specific Media website late last week, Specific announced a deal which goes around the agency and straight to the Direct.   Dealership holding company, MileOne Automotive, will work with Specific to target “automotive in-market shoppers across the Specific Media premium publisher network.” Given its expertise in the automotive industry, this may be another […]

Jed Nahum is Director of Business Integration for AdECN and led Microsoft’s acquisition of AdECN. AdExchanger.com: Can you provide insight on current momentum and scale at AdECN? And, how is the Federated platform performing? What’s next? JN: Our federated platform is a real-time bidded exchange that allows massively scaled ad networks, ad brokers, and publisher […]

Did YOU Know? Arash Amel, Screen Digest’s research director, digital media, said that the ad-supported online TV market (including Hulu) in the U.S. was worth $448 million last year and estimated that revenues will reach $1.45 billion by 2013. ThinkEquity analysts Robert Coolbrith and Bill Morrison estimate that revenues in non-premium, non-reserved display advertising will […]

WPP is entering the auction for Razorfish along with Publicis according to PaidContent’s David Kaplan who writes, “For WPP’s part (or bid), despite doubts about its wherewithal to absorb such a large shop and meet Microsoft’s estimated $600 million asking price, the holding firm’s dealmakers may point out Publicis’ close relationship with Google.” Jon Fine […]

Paul McLenaghan is VP of Interactive Markets for TARGUSinfo. AdExchanger.com: What insights can you provide on current momentum at TARGUSinfo as it relates to your online services? PM: We are seeing a great deal of momentum around our AdAdvisor solution, which we launched out of private beta in February.  AdAdvisor is a unique online targeting […]

Forrester is predicting that interactive marketing spend will hit nearly $55 billion by 2014, but advertising overall will decline. On ClickZ, Rocket Fuel CEO George John discusses actionable data in online display with a couple of his own fancy graphs and tables. In discussing the use of optimization tools, John makes this clever analogy: “It’s […]

It’s that time again – let’s predict the future! One of the key areas in which technology is affecting online media is in publisher yield optimization. In little over a year, companies like The Rubicon Project, AdMeld, PubMatic, YieldBuild and others have solidified the position of the yield optimizer in the online display advertising ecosystem […]

Adam Goldberg is Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder of ClearSaleing. AdExchanger.com: What trends are you seeing in your ClearSaleing clients in 2009? Can you describe momentum for ClearSaleing this year? AG: Our clients are not reducing their online ad spend—in fact, it’s increasing in many cases. ClearSaleing is helping clients tie their ad buys to […]

Young Bean Song, senior director of analytics at Microsoft’s Atlas Institute, thinks that “Web Advertising Needs Traditional Media Metrics” in his post on the Microsoft Advertising blog. Song writes that traditional media metrics are disowned by online marketers due to their own arrogance, ignorance and fear to adopt. “Any hope to unlock the two-thirds of […]

Brad Terrell is VP and General Manager of Digital Media at Netezza, a data warehouse and analytic appliances company. AdExchanger.com: What trends is Netezza seeing from its digital media clients in 2009?  Can you describe momentum for Netezza this year?  Revenues, deal size, vertical strengths, product interests, etc.? We see consumer attention continuing to fragment […]

Good news in the world of online advertising according to the latest quarterly forecast from Publicis’ ZenithOptimedia Group. MediaPost’s Joe Mandese writes that the agency believes that global ad spending online is gaining share in 2009 will reach 10.1%, a 1.5% increase since their last estimate in April. The Wall Street Journal takes Zenith’s spin […]

With names such as VivaKi Nerve Center, Adnetik, Varick and Cadreon, among others, agency holding companies have begun to realize strategies that align media buying with future innovation in online advertising. But, what more can be done to preserve the agency model while digital takes its deserved share of voice in cross-channel marketing strategies? It’s […]

The New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford looks at recent initiatives to overcome privacy regulation efforts in the online ad industry in “Industry Tightens Its Standards for Tracking Web Surfers.” The article coincides with a new industry report called “Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising” and sponsored by the following acronyms: IAB, DMA, AAAA, ANA, and […]

Matt Hulett is CEO of Mpire, an online advertising solutions company. AdExchanger.com: Mpire’s AdXpose appears to give advertisers insight on placement and context. Yet, the trend these days seems to put more importance on targeting audience and addressable media. In your opinion, why does AdXpose belong in today’s marketplace? MH: AdXpose belongs in today’s marketplace […]

Tim Cadogan is CEO of OpenX, an online advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: When you say (MediaPost 6/29) OpenX Market is more like a search marketplace whereas Right Media is more like a financial market, what do you mean? TC: Just to be clear, OpenX Market is an exchange for display advertising. Specifically, the Market is […]

Quantcast is going ahead with its efforts to offer a new opportunity for marketers who wish to leverage the millions of Quantcast pixels all over the Internet that can help provide insight into audience.   Dubbed the  “Media Program” (see release), here are the details from Quantcast: The Quantcast solution applies marketers’ unique customer interaction data […]

Tim Ogilvie is CEO of AdBuyer.com, an online media buying platform. AdExchanger.com: What is AdBuyer.com and how did it begin? TO: AdBuyer.com is a media buying and optimization platform for auction-based media. We provide a full suite of tools to help online marketers understand how their online advertising is performing and what they can do […]

Following up on last week’s news that Microsoft’s Admira technology would provide the backbone for Publicis/VivaKi’s entrance into the television ad exchange space (Reuters) as advertisers hunt for audience, today finds Microsoft peddling Razorfish to Publicis, supposedly one of the leading candidates to acquire the venerable Seattle-headquartered agency. The rumored acquisition price according to the […]

John Nardone is CEO of [x+1], an online buying platform and data company. AdExchanger.com: What trends is [x+1] seeing from its clients in 2009? Can you describe momentum for [x+1] this year? Revenues, deal size, vertical strengths, product interests, etc.? JN: [x+1] has been extremely fortunate in 2009 to see its client list, revenue and […]

Omnicom Media Group CEO Matt Spiegel let another crumb drop regarding what’s going on with OMG’s media buying platform strategy in an interview with MediaPost’s Laurie Sullivan. Apparently, (no surprise) behavioral targeting is in the middle of it. With the exchange model swimming in data with – potentially – real-time bidding’s help, behavioral targeting and […]

The world of media optimization and ad exchanges is taking off. Need proof? Even AdExchanger.com is getting in the news. From Cynopsis Digital, an industry newsletter that informs readers about the latest and greatest in the digital media world, comes the following: “Media buyers, planners and advertisers interested in the growing online ad exchange model […]

Chip Hall is SVP of Sales and Marketing at Teracent, an advertising creative solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: What trends have you seen at Teracent in 2009?  Can you characterize trends in revenue momentum, deal size, client verticals, consumer audience targets, etc.? CH: Teracent has seen very positive growth and revenue in 2009 and so far has […]

“Give us back our lunch money!” At times, the loathing is over the top. Certain members of the advertising ecosystem (even ad networks) have little respect for the ad network model. It’s as if someone stole the complainers’ lunch money each and every day of the year. All ad networks have ever done is provide […]