Technology

Caleb Hill is SVP of Product at Unicast. AdExchanger.com: Given the competitive marketplace in rich media ad serving, where do you see Unicast fitting and how do you differentiate? CH: Unicast is an established interactive advertising and marketing technology company serving more than 120 top online publishers and advertising agencies around the globe. We have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Murdoch Turning To Subscriptions Building on recent comments by Rupert Murdoch that news may need to switch to a subscription model quickly, one of Murdoch’s properties, London’s Sunday Times, will either be turned to a subscription model or something closer to a pay-per-view/micro-transaction system […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Getting Hyper With IPG Mediabrands’ Geomentum IPG’s Mediabrands announced a new unit (or practice) today called Geomentum. Check out the new site here. With graphical arrows pointing upwards on the site, Mediabrands appears to have a clear vision on the opportunity in cross-channel, local […]

Omar Tawakol is CEO of BlueKai, an online data exchange. AdExchanger.com: Regarding your new BlueKai Certification Program, ad networks and buying platforms must be excited – you’re performing lead gen for them, are you not? What is BlueKai getting? OT: Yes, the new program is definitely designed to drive agency leads directly to our partners. […]

Aaron Bell is CEO of AdRoll, an online co-operative, advertising network. AdExchanger.com: What’s been happening at AdRoll lately? Recession effects? While we’ve dialed down some of our own costs (ahem – postponing the order for the office 72” plasma screen to showcase our world domination metrics), we’ve actually seen double-digit monthly growth despite the dour […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $12.5 Million For MediaMath MediaMath announced today (Release here.) that it has rung the register and collected a cool $12.5 million to drive “continued expansion — with a focus on technology research and product development, executive and staff recruitment, tactical acquisitions, and geographic expansion.” […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Karin Blake, Senior Lead of Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. An Economist piece two weeks ago centered on the popular question of how social media companies will monetize their networks and whether or not banner advertising could be their revenue savior.  The explosive growth of users […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo!’s New PR Firm First, The New York Times runs an article by Brad Stone and Ashlee Vance offering insider details on what a great deal (follow closely) Microsoft thinks that Yahoo! received in handing over search to Microsoft. Yesterday , Kara Swisher on […]

Andy Cocker and Martin Kelly are co-Founders and Managing Partners of UK-based, Infectious Media Ltd. AdExchanger.com: How does the UK advertising marketplace perceive exchanges today?   What can be improved? IM: There’s still a lot of misinformation being peddled in the UK around Ad Exchanges. Some of this comes from Networks who probably feel that exchanges […]

Mike Lewis is President and Co-Founder of Ad-Juster, an ad server discrepancy management company. As you have said in your release, Ad-Juster looks to solve “two of the digital ad industries major pain points: 3rd party reporting and discrepancy identification.” Can you share momentum you have seen with Ad-Juster’s product in 2009? And, who needs […]