it’s time for more ad exchange-related news! Frank Lee posted a good summary from a recent search roundtable discussion at MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit. Panelists included Craig Danuloff, ClickEquations’ President, and Matt Greitzer, VP, Search Marketing, Razorfish. “Display: consensus is that search and display are handled by different teams/agencies because with display who you know […]
Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an online advertising data exchange. AdExchanger.com: Can you provide insight on recent momentum at BlueKai? Any observations due to the recent economic slump? OT: We are seeing some very positive growth trends at BlueKai. The numbers of data buyers and the average spend per buyer in the system is […]
Jeff Hirsch is President and CEO of AudienceScience. AdExchanger.com: Do you agree that audience has become more important than placement? If so, what have been the key drivers? JH: I absolutely agree that the reaching right audience is the most important component of any advertising. Contextual placements are often a proxy for reaching a specific […]
Rajeev Goel is CEO of PubMatic. AdExchanger.com: What will demand‐side optimization provide for the advertiser/agency? Can you quantify performance improvements an advertiser might see in comparison to futures or reserved bidding/buying? Real time demand‐side optimization will provide advertisers and agencies with the ability to better target individual web users with the most relevant and timely […]
Jay Sears is EVP, Strategic Products & Business Development of ContextWeb, Inc. / ADSDAQ Exchange who announced their real-time bidding API recently. AdExchanger.com: What will demand-side optimization provide for the advertiser/agency? Can you quantify performance improvements an advertiser might see in comparison to futures or reserved bidding/buying? JS: More control. Very simply, real-time impression level […]
In a memorable clip from 1977 film classic Annie Hall, a young Jeff Goldblum says his one and only line into the phone, “Hello? I lost my mantra.” Transporting ahead Star Trek-style to 2009, publishers struggle with their mantra saying, “Hello? I lost my CPMs.” Demand-side voice, Rob Griffin of Media Contacts – makers of […]
Nay-sayers: ready to admit that online display advertising is not dead – it’s just getting started? In its latest Q1 earnings report, Valueclick sheds light on the growing opportunity in display as display ad revenues increased from the prior year according to PaidContent after VLCK’s earnings conference call: “Display beat expectations, gaining 2 percent to […]
Kurt Unkel is Senior Vice President of Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center. AdExchanger.com: What differentiates VivaKi Nerve Center from other trading platforms in the marketplace? KU: To be clear, the VivaKi Nerve Center isn’t just a trading platform. The VNC is group of digital and R&D experts committed to building pathways between clients and their most […]
We have exchanges. We have trading. We have media. And, we have data. What are we missing? How about “Real-Time Bidding,” or RTB, for short? With RTB, exchange participants have a new feature coming for the buy side which should make agency business intelligence mucky-mucks and advertisers delirious after watching the development of yield management […]
Barry Lowenthal is President of kirshenbaum bond + partners‘ The Media Kitchen. AdExchanger.com: Why will measuring effectiveness as well as understanding how to monetize “earned” or social media be a key for advertising in the future? BL: Measuring effectiveness of social media is critical, if simply because money flows to the most measurable media. It’s […]
ContextWeb announced that it will allow real-time bidding on its inventory through an API. It’s unclear from the press release if the API is currently “live” to clients. Nevertheless, this could be an exciting opportunity for advertisers who will be able to optimize on the “demand” end. “With ADSDAQ’s Real Time API, the ADSDAQ Exchange […]
David Moore is the Chairman & Founder of 24/7 Real Media, a WPP company. AdExchanger.com: Doesn’t it follow that there is channel conflict between ad networks and large publisher sites with sales teams? What must ad networks do, if anything, to make sure that publishers do not feel like they’re inventory is being cannibalized? DM: […]
Jason Krebs is President of ShortTail Media. AdExchanger.com: What must ad networks do, if anything, to make sure that publishers do not feel like they’re inventory is being cannibalized? JK: The reality is they are being cannibalized by most networks. The networks make the publishers feel like they are not being cannibalized by sending them […]
Joe Zawadzki is CEO of MediaMath, a media trading solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: When “last we left” MediaMath, the New York Times had just featured you. What’s been happening over the past 9 months? Any updates you can share about traction, product line, etc.? JZ: We’ve been fortunate to continue our two-year consistent growth trajectory, despite […]
What a week! Great insight from a growing list of key industry figures in the ad exchange space on AdExchanger.com. Heady advertising technology excitement from the past week’s Ad:Tech San Francisco show. Apparently, Ad:Tech has not lost any steam in spite of the economy if the Twitter buzz is to be believed. There is a […]
Darren Herman is the Founder and President of Varick Media Management, the audience and media platform backed by MDC Partners, one of the world’s leading advertising holding companies. AdExchanger.com: Varick Media Management appears to be gaining traction according to your press release in January. Any updates? DH: Our heads have been down at VMM focusing […]
Henry Wong is Chief Executive Officer of Adgregate Markets, a transactional performance ad network. AdExchanger.com: Given you and your team’s experience (AdECN), how important is your familiarity with ad exchanges in the success of Adgregate Markets? HW: Given the experience of the management team with AdECN, we understand the value that ad exchanges can bring […]
Tom Shields is Chief Executive Officer of yield optimization company, Yieldex. AdExchanger.com: How many participating publishers? TS: We have announced Martha Stewart Omnimedia as our first publisher partner. We are currently engaged with a number of other large publishers that we are not publicizing yet. What is your target publisher market? Can any publisher participate? […]
Michael Katz is President and Founder of InterClick. AdExchanger.com: Is it more difficult being a public company than private in the advertising industry? Does this give an advantage to your competitors? Good question, I get asked this a lot. There have been many advantages and disadvantages to being public. I think being public has provided […]
Jeremy Liew is Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm, and frequently writes on the LSVP blog. AdExchanger.com: In your April 6 LSVP blog post, you say there will be more ad networks not less. Why? JL: There are four elements that you need to be able to run a successful […]
Google’s DoubleClick announced its new vertical network solution – DoubleClick Network Builder – for large publishers who are using Dart For Publishers (DFP) and looking to juice revenues, leverage their brand name and harness the Long Tail. The “Help” section gives us the lowdown on the new GOOG tool: “In addition to providing network users […]
Nathaniel Turner is Co-Founder, President & COO of Invite Media. AdExchanger.com: What is Invite Media and how did it begin? NT: Invite has built what we call a “universal buying platform,” Bid Manager. In one sentence, Bid Manager allows an agency, ad network or media buyer to automatically buy and manage display media across multiple […]
Those crazy yield optimizers are at it again! Or, are they really ad exchanges waiting in the tall grass? First up, Yield Build. The company led by CEO Paul Edmondson has launched a new premium text ad network for publishers that optimizes Google AdSense ads in combination with somewhat exclusive Microsoft PubCenter ads and produces […]
The economy is in the gutter. CPMs are diving. OPA is pissed. IAB hates technology. Other acronyms are grumbling. It’s over! But, wait. Collective Media and its CEO, Joe Apprendi, just enjoyed an impressive raise of $20 million courtesy of Accel Partners and iNovia Capital. Ch-ching. Looks like someone sees value in ad networks in […]
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 […]
During upfronts, publishers flexed their ad performance muscles at media buyers all week long in an effort to appeal to the biggest demands media buyers have during their upfront negotiations: flexibility and results.
TelevisaUnivision and Disney took over Day Two of upfronts week in New York City on Tuesday, and the throughline was data quality.
Warner Bros. Discovery used its upfront stage to announce two new ad measurement efforts, including that it’s joining a CAPI-focused initiative led by OpenAP.
AdExchanger Senior Editor Alyssa Boyle and Associate Editor Victoria McNally traversed the island of Manhattan on Monday to scope out upfront presentations by NBCUniversal, Fox and Amazon.
Viant’s modest growth story took a backseat to a far louder claim: that fed-up advertisers are finally ready to ditch the rigged economics of Big Tech’s walled gardens.
Amazon Ads expects this year’s television upfronts to be an outcomes-focused affair. That may explain why the company preempted its Monday evening presentation by announcing the launch of a new ad product called Dynamic TV Creative.
