Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Social Data Miners AdWeek’s Brian Morrissey looks at the social media data space – and companies such as Media6Degrees, Rapleaf and 33across – and whether the bread crumbs that users leave behind are valuable targeting parameters. ShareThis CEO Tim Schigel says in the piece […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RocketFuel Reports According to a press release, privately-held ad network RocketFuel says that its revenues grew 10x in Q3 in comparison to the same quarter in 2009. In addition, “the company is profitable and has reached a $30 million run rate” with 65 employees […]
Rob Gorrie is CEO of Adcentricity, a digital out-of-home (OOH) ad network. AdExchanger.com: Why did you decide to get into the out-of-home business? What intrigued you? RG: When it really comes down to it, I didn’t decide to get into Digital-Out-of-Home; it was never my intent. A couple of years ago we saw a convergence […]
Dave Gross is CEO of Connexity, an online advertising network. AdExchanger.com: What did you learn at Fastclick (sold to Valueclick in 2005) that you’re bringing with you to Connexity? DG: How to simultaneously improve yield for both advertising and publishing clients through increased ad relevance. The market has matured, somewhat, and there are a lot […]
On Monday, Undertone announced that it had acquired Jambo Media, a supplier “of online video advertising distribution and technology with more than 17 million unique viewers per month [according to Comscore for Sept. 2010].” Read more. CEO Mike Cassidy discussed the acquisition and his company’s move deeper into the digital video ad space. Why is […]
Krux Digital released its cross-industry study which it says shows “that data collection on publisher websites is pervasive, sophisticated, and on the rise.” From the study: “31% of all data collection is initiated by entities other than the publishers themselves. (…And,) 55% of all third party data collectors employ standard technical methods to usher in […]
Damon Reeve is CEO of Unanimis, a UK-based digital advertising network and wholly-owned by Orange France Telecom Group. AdExchanger.com: Please provide a bit of background on Unanimis. DR: For the first few years, 2001 to around 2005, Unanimis was primarily a site representation business. We worked with premium, well‑branded sites – ebay, lastminute.com, londonstockexchange.com, Ticketmaster […]
Interclick reported on Tuesday a record Q3 2010 and announced that founder/president Michael Katz will assume the CEO title. Highlights from the earnings release include 84% year-over-year revenue growth and a 68% increase in gross profit to $12.2 million. Read the earnings release (PDF). Reuters reports that the company is expecting Q4 to be even […]
Today on the Yahoo! Advertising blog, Yahoo! announced its new “Personalized Retargeting” product which it claims can “turn prospects into customers at an even higher rate than standard retargeting—and you’ll only pay for clicks or conversions.” In addition the company announced the rebranding of its ad network calling it the ‘Yahoo! Network Plus’ ad network, […]
Gurbaksh Chahal is CEO of RadiumOne, an online advertising network. You’re back on the ad network scene with your newest company after a successful and very lucrative exit with Blue Lithium when it was sold to Yahoo!. Why? Why not kick back? GC: To sit still is not in my DNA. I sold my first […]
CleanTap claims that 100% of the invalid traffic it spoofed was accepted into live auctions run by programmatic platforms and was successfully bid on by advertisers.
HUMAN has recently started complementing its bid request analysis by analyzing the time between when a bot clicks an ad and when the landing page loads. Now it’s offering the solution to individual advertisers.
Through Index Exchange’s data vendor marketplace, curators gain access to third-party data sets without needing their own integrations.
TTD says OpenAds is not just a reaction to Prebid’s TID change, but a new model for fairer, more transparent ad auctions. So what does the DSP need to do to get publishers to adopt its new auction wrapper?
What happens when an ad tech developer partners with a cybersecurity expert to start a new company? You end up with a consumer product that is both a privacy software service and a programmatic advertising ID.
Alvaro Bedoya shared his qualms with digital advertising’s more controversial targeting tactics and how kids use gen AI and social media.
