Nikesh Desai is Founder of InvestingChannel, a vertical ad network and publisher services company. AdExchanger.com: How did the InvestingChannel begin? And how has the company pivoted since it was first started? ND: We started this business for a couple of key reasons, amongst others: The business was started as an advisory business designed to help […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rocket Fuel Ignites Video With Display Ad network Rocket Fuel announced that it’s bringing its data-driven audience buying to the video channel with a product called Video Booster. According to the release, “The solution, which offers 15- or 30-second duration in-stream pre-roll ads with […]
Yesterday, Adobe announced the acquisition of data solutions provider Demdex, which will be added to Adobe’s Omniture unit and folded into its Online Marketing Suite. Read the interview with Adobe Omniture VP John Mellor. AdExchanger.com reached out to members of the ad ecosystem to get their thoughts on the following question: “What does the Adobe […]
Earlier this month, online advertising technology company AdKeeper announced new investment in the company totaling $35 million and led by Oak Investment Partners. From the release, “The funding will be used to grow one of the strongest online media startups in history, with the largest group of charter advertisers ever assembled by a new company […]
Traffic and content optimization company Perfect Market announced that it has raised an additional $9 million in funding led by Comcast Interactive Capital. CEO Julie Schoenfeld said in the release, “The substantial support we’ve received from investors to date affirms Perfect Market’s mission as we satisfy a gap in finding new monetization opportunities for leading […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook’s Ad Haul ”2010 was the year that Facebook firmly established itself as a major force not only in social network advertising but all of online advertising,” says eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson, noting that the social net should hit $2.19 billion in […]
Today, Adobe announced that it has acquired data management solutions provider, Demdex. Financials were not disclosed. Read the release. In a conversation with AdExchanger.com, Adobe Omniture’s vp of marketing, John Mellor, offered insights on the transaction and where Adobe’s Omniture unit plans to go with Demdex as it joins the Company’s Online Marketing Suite. Demdex […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Niel Robertson, CEO of Trada, an online marketplace technology company. Driving between Boulder and Denver the other day, I did something completely old school – I turned […]
AdExchanger.com spoke to Google’s Lexi Reese, director, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, about the whitepaper (PDF) which offers insights about publishers using Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange within the past year. (Google’s Neal Mohan formally announced the whitepaper on the Google blog here. Interview with Mohan by PaidContent’s David Kaplan is here.) Also, Reese discussed new category blocking […]
