AOL has grabbed “Mr. Microphone” and gone on a PR spree regarding display advertising. Today’s Wall Street Journal article by Emily Steel, “Chief to Focus AOL on Becoming Display-Ad Leader,” tells CEO Tim Armstrong’s side of the display ad story as AOL will be trying to lay claim to leadership held by Yahoo! and Google. […]
Google’s much anticipated Q2 earnings report has arrived and shed some light on display advertising. Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget covered the earnings conference call and jotted down the following from the Google execs: “Display and particularly YouTube have performed very well this quarter. YouTube is now on a trajectory we’re very pleased with.” Nikesh […]
Rob Leathern is CEO of CPM Advisors. AdExchanger.com: CPM Advisors… so I take it you believe the CPM is not dead? RL: CPM Advisors (“CPMa”) typically works with advertisers who are optimizing to a CPA or CPC metric, but realize that they cannot get volume and scale unless they can tap into CPM advertising options. […]
Yesterday’s ContextWeb/AdClub event which brought together NYC-area advertisers, publishers and traders has already yielded results in the form of a great blog post from MDC Partners/Varick Media Management‘s Darren Herman. <Ripple dissolve to yesterday’s summary on AdExchanger.com> Toward the event’s close, Herman quizzed yesterday’s IPG/Publicis/OMG/WPP panel on how they are preparing their culture and employees […]
Andrew Pancer is Chief Operating Officer at Media6Degrees. AdExchanger.com: How would you characterize momentum in 2009 for Media6Degrees? AP: 2009 has been a great year for Media6°! We officially launched our commercial product late last fall and have been able to deliver fantastic results for our marketing partners. An example referenced in Adweek on 6/28/09 […]
From WSJ Digits blog, the post, “Does Size Matter When Measuring Online Audience?” explores the way in which Comscore and Nielsen count audience with Quantcast noticeably absent. Nielsen is claiming to have launched the “Largest, Most Representative Online Audience Measurement Panel in U.S.” MediaPost editor-at-large, Diane Mermigas did a Q&A back on July 1 with […]
Whoa, Nellie – full house! People are getting the message about new opportunities in display ad exchanges and platforms as an impressive crowd of nearly 400 attended today’s Times Center event in NYC entitled, “Agency Demand Platforms: Art vs. Science in a Real-Time World,” co-sponsored by ContextWeb/ADSDAQ and New York’s Ad Club. After intros by […]
John Donahue is Global Director of Business Intelligence Analytics for Omnicom Media Group. AdExchanger.com: From your agency perspective, what trends are you seeing in the marketplace? JD: Digital up, TV down. I think we’re in a position where the economy is causing everyone to seize up their budgets. What’s going to be interesting is not […]
According to the Specific Media website late last week, Specific announced a deal which goes around the agency and straight to the Direct. Dealership holding company, MileOne Automotive, will work with Specific to target “automotive in-market shoppers across the Specific Media premium publisher network.” Given its expertise in the automotive industry, this may be another […]
Jed Nahum is Director of Business Integration for AdECN and led Microsoft’s acquisition of AdECN. AdExchanger.com: Can you provide insight on current momentum and scale at AdECN? And, how is the Federated platform performing? What’s next? JN: Our federated platform is a real-time bidded exchange that allows massively scaled ad networks, ad brokers, and publisher […]
