Yesterday, online ad exchange contender and Redwood City, California-based, Turn Inc., announced a new round of investment totaling $15 million. Led by Focus Ventures and joined by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Trident Capital, and Shasta Venture, Turn has now received more than $37 million in equity investment since its inception – yet another signal that […]
Ad exchanges received a plug today in the New York Times when Stephanie Clifford wrote an article entitled “Leftover Ad Space? Exchanges Handle The Remnant” about companies looking to take advantage of the efficiencies of exchanges by building tools that enable online advertising traders much the same way traders stock exchanges depend on tools and […]
The creative, vertical ad network, Glam Media, has once again reinvented itself with yesterday’s announcement regarding the first vertical ad exchange. From the press release: “GlamX Ad Exchange enables advertisers to target by audience, content and placement effectively connecting publishers, advertisers, agencies and networks in one innovative platform.” OK, well, still sounds like an an […]
Feeling it couldn’t be left out of the advertising exchange party, Microsoft, acquired tiny AdECN for what some suggest is in the $50-75 million range. In the wake of previous advertising exchange platform purchases such as Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick which included its exchange and Yahoo!’s $700 million purchase of RightMedia and RMX, […]
Google has bought DoubleClick for a breathtaking $3.1 billion in a transaction that is expected to find regulatory approval after a hard slog. With DoubleClick’s huge display ad serving business, it made sense for mighty Google to swing for the fences in that Google’s display business is almost non-existent. The DART ad serving system will […]
Meta’s Q1 call sounded like an AI and hardware pitch, but under the hood it was still about one thing: investing in AI to squeeze more money out of its ads business.
Alphabet earned $109.9 billion in Q1 this year, up from $90.2 billion a year ago. And that’s not even the truly gobsmacking number.
Omnicom is rebuilding its media machine around Acxiom and agentic AI in a bid to push more spend to publishers and sidestep the “messy middle.”
The two longest-standing names in the affiliate and partnership marketing category, Rakuten and Impact.com, have decided to stop fighting each other and will instead fight together.
The Trade Desk announced that it will begin allowing mutual clients to use its DSP within the Pacvue or Skai platforms.
As AI chat starts to double as a shopping channel, the race is on to build an ad model that doesn’t undermine user trust.
