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Ken Barbieri
 is Vice-President of Business Development at 
LucidMedia Networks, Inc. and is responsible for developing and growing strategic partnerships with online publishers, advertising networks and advertising exchanges at LucidMedia. AdExchanger.com: How’s business for LucidMedia? Any momentum you can report? KB: At LucidMedia we are having a record year for revenue growth and client acquisition. […]

If you can’t get the consumer to the store, bring the store to the consumer. That’s what Adgregate Markets – which calls itself the “world’s leading transactional ad network” – is doing for Google’s DoubleClick and a slew of others. And it’s run by former AdECN-ers. Already a TechCrunch 50 member, Adgregate has received quite […]

Rajeev Goel is CEO and Co-Founder of yield optimizer, Pubmatic based in Palo Alto, California. AdExchanger.com: How many participating publishers does Pubmatic have? Rajeev: We have over 5,500 large and medium publishers using PubMatic including eBay, Kiplinger , Inc./Fast Company, Sugar Network, United Press International, and many more. What is your target publisher market? Can […]

Div Bhansali is director of self-service products for Platform-A, and serves as product manager for Platform-A’s self-service display advertising solutions, BidPlace SB and LeadBack.com. Div came to Platform-A by way of AOL / Advertising.com, where he served as Product Development Director. AdExchanger.com: What is Platform-A’s BidPlace SB and tell us about BidPlace’s product pipeline? DB: […]

After growing its open source ad server “business” for nearly a decade, OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds, which was formerly knows as PHPads) appears to be gaining traction as well as branching out to supply publishers new tools for monetization. Yesterday the company announced impressive growth for its OpenX Hosted (Hosted) and OpenX Download (Download) […]

This is ad exchange-related news, and definitely not an April Fools’ joke. For jokes, go here. Max Kalehoff, Marketing VP at media optimizer Clickable, wrote a piece in MediaPost and on his “Attention Max” blog called, “The Endgame Of Media Buying And Selling” about the coming revolution in digital media: ad exchanges. Except he really […]

Many regional interactive marketing associations are busy with panels and symposia about digital marketing strategy and tactics – even exchanges! The Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AIMA – Facebook link) provided a panel to its members on ad networks and exchanges this past week that included Google and Yahoo!. Upcoming, on April 8, the IAB comes […]

After complaints about malware and pornographic ads on its network, Vizi came out with a video yesterday which addresses publisher fraud. As you may recall, Vizi claims that ad network Oridian was serving unwanted pornographic ads via the Right Media Exchange, but has since cut Oridian loose from its network chain. Ad Operations Online’s Otilia […]

BlueKai and eXelate hit the PR jackpot today with a feature article in the NY Times. Though the article written by Stephanie Clifford ends with a thud, it hits on a core reason exchanges exist and expand today. Clifford quotes BlueKai CEO, Omar Tawakol, saying, “People are realizing that it’s the data that drives the […]

Expanding its toolkit for publishers, Contextweb announced today that it will make available in-text ads for publishers on the Adsdaq exchange beginning March 31. Leveraging its contextual technology, Contextweb will enter the same space which Vibrant Media and Kontera have dominated in the recent past in a battle-contextual-royale. Contextweb’s Jay Sears explains how in-text ads […]

Today, Day 2 of Search Engine Strategies NYC, featured a collection of agency executives who discussed the current online display advertising market in a panel titled, “Pardon My Reach: A Snapshot of the Display Ad Marketplace.” With AdExchanger.com’s focus on ad exchanges, this was an opportunity to learn about agency opinion and innovations as it […]

Today’s announcement that Steve Perelman’s OnLive may have potentially disintermediated game console providers has the blogosphere a-chirping. The company has created a new compression which allows data used for online game services to be computed on distant servers – cloud computing servers – instead of through a game console or speedy, local computers.  Considering the […]

From Today’s AdAge article, “Media Giants Want to Top Google Results” by Nat Ives: “You should not have a system,” one content executive said, “where those who are essentially parasites off the true producers of content benefit disproportionately.” Load the cannons! Kiss the loved ones goodbye! This is WAR! Premium publisher titans undoubtedly led by […]

It’s coming. It’s the second Google “killer app” after search advertising. It’s Google’s advertising exchanges! – the exclusive location for Google Search retargeting as long as Big G can survive the privacy tidal wave. The Evolution of the Killer App A long time ago, in an ad world far, far away… For many years, Google […]

Considering the glacial migration towards premium AND remnant inventory exchanges by the online ad industry, the attributes of social media and ad exchanges have a lot in common these days aside from the fact that social media display ad inventory is unloaded through exchanges. Whether we want to admit it or not, both mediums prominent […]

It’s been a while since we served up linkage. So, here we go – ad exchange-related news. Financial Times writer, John Gapper, says that skepticism reigns regarding online ad exchanges – only for the uninformed, John. But, opposing viewpoints are always welcome here at AdExchanger.com. Apparently, big brands and newspaper sites may “shun” the advertising […]

For the ad exchange model, liquidity and scale are factors in determining price for media. And, of course, so is data. Today, behavioral impressions are bought and sold, contextual impressions are bought and sold, etc. In the future, among several ways to trade advertising, including online display advertising, we suggest the “media profile” value. The […]

Today’s Media Post reports that yield optimizer, Pubmatic, led by CEO Rajeev Goel, is providing new tools to large publishers which he says already comprises 80% of the inventory among the 5,500 Pubmatic publishers. From Media Post’s Mark Walsh: PubMatic Premiere is aimed at publishers with more than $5 million in annual online revenue, and […]

Darren Herman of MDC Partners‘ Varick Media Management recently published his thoughts on the disintermediation of online display advertising and, by extension, ad networks. Though it cannot be said we’re in complete agreement, it is a well-conceived argument that plots a path to success for savvy ad agencies who are ready to bring ad exchange […]

Google is interested in your interests. The Google monolith announced today that its next option for advertisers will include behavioral targeting, and Miguel Helft of the NY Times wisely posits that the acquisition of DoubleClick and its technology is becoming more visible in Google strategy. From “Google’s Official Blog,” Susan Wojcicki, VP, Product Management, writes: […]

The Online Publishers Association has nobly decided to help the world of display advertising by introducing three, online display ad sizes. Each new ad unit will be implemented and sold only through participating publishers’ direct sales teams later this year. Implicit is that ad networks and exchanges will not be selling these units. Yeah, right. […]

Amidst the mayhem of the current AdMonsters Publisher Forum in New Orleans which brings together ad operations professionals and their ad technology vendors comes news! AdMeld, led by CEO Michael Barrett and founders Ben Barokas and Brian Adams, has released a new tool for client publishers. AdMeld‘s FireMeld enables the ad operations team of web […]

Are those pork bellies or M&M’s in the picture? Ad exchanges get premium billing in Razorfish’s just-released 2009 Digital Outlook paper (PDF here). In the “What’s emerging” section of the paper, Razorfish has imbibed the ad exchange Kool-aid with a four-page spread entitled, “Ad Exchanges: Revolutionizing the Buy-Sell Process.” The exchange feature is even before […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday. During the on-stage interview with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, (a little) more information dribbled out on Big G’s ad exchange and display advertising strategy. From CNN: Schmidt also said the search advertising company has a good opportunity […]

This news likely crossed under the radar for many but yield optimizer, Pubmatic, took another step forward into the exchange model by allowing ad networks open API access – the ability to buy from its network of website publishers. To date, yield optimizers have served member publishers by aggregating, and then testing (sometimes may also […]

A flood of behavioral targeting company news coincided with the OMMA Behavioral conference at the Marriott Marquis in NYC this past Thursday. In ClickZ, Michael Katz of interClick noted the recent appearance of new data “intermediaries” – such as yield optimizers Rubicon Project, “meta network” MediaMath and ad data exchanges like Media 6° and BlueKai […]

There should be more to this announcement, no? There is a hint of a new, Google ad exchange strategy involving AdSense if we are to believe David Rosenblatt, Google’s president of display advertising, during his IAB keynote. David Kaplan of PaidContent.org wrote yesterday: Google’s approach: The ad exchange extends the AdSense marketplace. It’s neutral and […]

Amidst the hoopla of the IAB Conference in Orlando, Florida, Yahoo! SVP of Advertising Joanne Bradford says the company plans to leverage its search technology and display ad inventory by implementing retargeting capabilities. Retargeting allows advertisers to re-target a user with an ad after they have been cookied while visiting an advertiser-specified page. In this […]

Enough. The unending criticism from ad industry leadership of ad exchanges, networks and their technology is an abomination. Cut to a scene from the movie, “Network” with Yahoo!’s Carol Bartz poised in the window instead of Peter Finch. Carol: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Today – the […]

You’ve read all the press about declining CPMs in Pubmatic’s AdPrice Index and the dark, dwindling outlook for online advertising. Truth be told, ad budgets are continuing to come online as premium content sites are showing remarkable resilience in spite of the sputtering economy. Yesterday, health and wellness website, WebMD, reported better than expected earnings […]