Once upon a time, ad agencies were masters of data. Which is to say, research. Before the internet, firms like Leo Burnett and The Martin Agency wielded – and still wield – sizeable research budgets, which they used to uncover demographic opportunities and strategic consumer insights. These insights were turned into big ideas and placed […]
“The key thing to realize is that you don’t find customers anymore. They find you. To make that happen more often, you need to think like a media company and produce the content that people want to consume. We get about 10,000 leads a month from our blog and 30% of those leads came from […]
This week, San Francisco-based Goodby Silverstein & Partners announced that it has decided to take the New York plunge and open its creative agency offices in downtown NYC. Read the release. AdExchanger spoke to ECD Christian Haas about the new base as well as technology and creative. AdExchanger: New York is often viewed as the […]
The Media Trust is a company that verifies the placement of ads relative to what the buyer originally intended. Sounds like the ad verification space popularized by companies like DoubleVerify, AdSafe and ComScore’s AdXpose, right? Well, it’s not. Though the pitch seems similar, according to CEO Chris Olson, the concept isn’t about brand safety metrics […]
Connecting with an audience begins with an idea – a product or service. Robert Brunner of product design firm Ammunition Group discusses his company’s approach in what makes great design – and ultimately a successful business outcome for his clients. Brunner will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Human Centered Automation conference on September 20. AdExchanger: Can […]
The Lean Startup isn’t just a method for your favorite, angel-funded startup to build a product and raise another round. Its author, Eric Ries, has helped catalyze a way in which great product is created whether you’re in a startup or a Fortune 100 company. On September 20, Ries’ will share his ideas at AdExchanger’s […]
Your retina is starting to make demands. As the display of your favorite device amps up its pixels per inch – such as Apple’s retina display for its iOS product line – so too are the visual requirements for content providers. And that means higher expectations and resolution for ads. This focus on content and […]
The ad sector’s creative apparatus has a good deal of work cut out before it wraps its head around data to the extent media and digital agencies have. But to hear some tell it, analytics – or “insights” as many prefer – has begun to permeate campaign ideation. In Cannes last week, AdExchanger talked with […]
Ad platforms are coming to Cannes in force this year, and AdExchanger will be there to observe how the ad tech ecosystem plays in the Cote d’Azur. Tremor Video, Mojiva, Turn, Velti, AppNexus, Simulmedia, and Vibrant Media are among those planning a presence at the Cannes Lions advertising festival (officially the “international festival of creativity”), […]
Pepsi’s new global campaign, “Live for Now,” is all about immediacy, or as its creators would have it, “the excitement of now.” So it seems fitting that the effort’s main digital ingredient is a cascade of recent Pepsi-themed tweets, brand-created content, and miscellaneous scraps of trending content. For now this interactive experience, known as Pepsi […]
Tim McAtee, Research Director, IPG Media Labs, and Brian Monahan, Managing Partner, MAGNA Global Intelligence Practice, recently worked on research for the IAB Rising Stars ad units and the expansion of the IAB’s standard ad unit portfolio. Read the release, and see the units. Monahan and McAtee discussed large format, display advertising with AdExchanger including […]
Gazehawk‘s founders are moving on to Facebook. The company’s technology was recently featured at the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting for the insights its tech provides into the performance of creative – specifically its heat mapping technology to measure users’ visual engagement with ads. The company’s founder Joe Gershonson and Brian Krausz announced the news on […]
Billy Seabrook recently became Chief Creative Officer of True Action Network, the full-service ecommerce and digital marketing agency arm of GSI Commerce which is wholly-owned by eBay. Seabrook comes from Publicis’ agency Digitas where he was the executive creative officer. Read the release. Seabrook discussed his new role, “the big idea” and the shifting creative […]
It is well-chronicled that the “creative” element among the optimization triad of audience, context and creative remains the biggest wildcard when driving a campaign’s performance. And for search marketers moving into display, addressing “creative” isn’t just about text ads anymore as they must deal with the nuance and complexity of creating compelling graphical display ad […]
According to multiple sources, and the company itself has now confirmed, Collective will announce the acquisition of dynamic creative ad tech company Tumri shortly as the ad tech ecosystem M&A has continued to accelerate in recent weeks (AdMeld by Google on June 13, Performable by Hubspot and MediaMind by DG on June 16). After competitor […]
Ben Kartzman is CEO of Spongecell, a creative ad technology company. Click below or scroll for more: Looking Back at the Past Year Success Metrics and Engagement Pricing Attribution Funding And The Future On Fragmentation and The Entrepreneur AdExchanger.com: How much has the company changed – or not – in the last year? BK: We’ve […]
Rob Lenderman is Co-Founder, CIO-CMO of BoostCTR, a crowdsourced marketplace the optimization and testing of online ad creative. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come for “BoostCTR”? RL: A few years ago I was working at a company that inherited an AdWords account for a multi-million dollar company. They had not had a single text ad […]
Jonah Goodhart and Noah Goodhart are the Co-CEO’s of Moat, a creative company. AdExchanger.com: Please share a brief background on the executive team at Moat. JONAH GOODHART: The company was founded by myself and Noah Goodhart. We brought on Ant Taylor as part of the founding team to serve as our GM. Mike Walrath serves […]
Seattle-area creative shop, POP, recently collaborated with Microsoft to create a Games for Windows Marketplace as the digital agency was tasked with engaging the frenetic audience of online games. Read the release. Nick Theil, art director on this project for POP, discussed the ins and outs. AdExchanger.com: From a creative standpoint, how do you balance […]
In a press release, creative ad technology firm PointRoll announced new research that it says showed, “Through ad sequencing, advertisers can actively and frequently engage users on a one-to-one basis by developing an ad sequence based on a user’s previous exposure or engagement with ads. The study found that by using sequencing, advertisers are able […]
AdExchanger.com reached out to a cross-section of executives from the digital advertising ecosystem to gauge their reaction to the acquisition of display ad technology firm Dapper by Yahoo! Bill Wise, CEO, MediaBank “While the acquisition is reactive to Google’s acquisition of Teracent last year, it is an deal that actually makes a ton of sense […]
Dev Patel, VP, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions at Yahoo!, discussed the Dapper acquisition (read the release) and its implications. AdExchanger.com: Can you discuss how Dapper’s technology will enable SmartAds going forward? DP: Dapper’s technology will use consumer ingights from across the Yahoo! network to understand user intent and dynamically generate the creative in real time […]
Hari Menon is CEO of Tumri, Inc., a dynamic marketing solutions company for display media. AdExchanger.com: What has happened with Tumri in the past year? Tumri has undergone a major shift in strategy and management in the last year. Tumri has always had a powerful technology platform that has allowed us to deliver on a […]
Michael Rosen is President of Oggifinogi, a rich media technology company. AdExchanger.com: What’s the problem Oggifinogi is solving today? MR: Brand marketers face a major obstacle when interested in buying exchanged-based media. We’ve addressed this obstacle with our Real Time Rich Media (RTRM) products. RTRM are the only rich media solutions that function within a […]
Today, Adgregate Markets announced ShopFans, which “allows consumers to make secure purchase transactions directly in Facebook.” Read the release. CEO Henry Wong discussed the new product and display’s impact on social media and visa versa. AdExchanger.com: How does social media change display? And how does it change e-commerce in display? HW: If content and commerce […]
MediaMath announced its acquisition of Adroit Interactive, an advertising technology company specializing in multi-variate creative, also known as dynamic ads. Read the release. MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki discussed the acquisition and Adroit’s technology. AdExchanger.com: For the creatives – such as those at creative agencies-, how do you make the case for Adroit’s technology being additive […]
Adgregate Markets announced a partnership with IPG Mediabrands’ Emerging Media Lab unit today which will make Adgregate Markets a preferred technology provider within IPG. According to the release, “IPG will promote Adgregate products and services to the Interpublic agency network.” Part of the deal includes Adgregate Markets new socially-infused “ShopFans” in banner, e-commerce technology. Read […]
Creative optimization company, Tumri, announced in a release today what it calls a new cloud-based, “real-time marketing analytics solution” with the goal of simplifying “campaign launch and reduce time-to-value for the most common types of dynamic creative marketing campaigns.” Read the release. AdExchanger discussed the announcement with Tumri CEO Calvin Lui. AdExchanger.com: It would seem […]
Ad software company, Burt, recently announced a free version of Rich, Burt’s new analytics tool for marketers and creative agencies. AdExchanger.com spoke with advertising software company CEO Gustav Von Sydow (AdExchanger.com Q&A) on current challenges for creatives in the space as well as his company’s new product. AdExchanger.com: How are creative agencies adapting to the […]
From the Official Google blog and the Teracent website’s home page, the news is finally confirmed: Google has purchased multi-variate display ad company, Teracent, after weeks of rumors. In the Google blog post, Neal Mohan, VP of Product Management and Joerg Heilig, Engineering Director commented said, “We’re looking forward to welcoming the Teracent team to […]
