Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lookery Closes Its Doors No more Lookery. CEO Scott Rafer announced from the Lookery blog that the Company is winding down operations. Rafer offers a post mortem of regrets and/or mis-steps that he believes, if avoided, could have led to a different conclusion such […]
Payam Zamani is CEO of Reply.com, a lead generation marketplace. AdExchanger.com: Reply.com started in lead generation. Why did you transition the business into an exchange and marketplace? PZ: Until the summer of 2006, Reply.com was focused on lead generation for the real estate and automotive markets. During that quarter, many of our largest real estate […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Jarvis Coffin Coming Soon To The OPA Burst Media CEO, Jarvis Coffin (AdExchanger.com Q&A), is ready to prove wrong the recent, link-baiting-extraordinaire study funded by the Online Publishers Association (OPA). Coffin says he may begin calling on his fellow OPA “dues-payers” such as 24/7 […]
Rob Friedman is Co-founder and EVP of Digital Element. AdExchanger.com: Can you layout the basic ways your clients are using Digital Element’s IP detection services? RF: Digital Element‘s customers use our IP Intelligence solutions in a variety of ways such as improving response and click-through rates through more accurate ad geotargeting; reducing advertiser variance issues […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Betting on Display Forbes magazine writer Quentin Hardy speaks with Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz about the recent Microsoft search deal as well as the Sunnyvale-based company’s new plans to concentrate on display advertising. Read the whole story. U.S. Gov’t Reviews Yahoo!/Microsoft Deal Kim Hart […]
Yesterday’s sold-out, LeadsCon East convention in New York City brought together the lead generation community for a two-day event focused on, of course, generating leads as well as putting more tools in the hands of direct marketers. Conference organizer, noted blogger and former super seller, Jay Weintraub gave attendees a healthy dose of the potential […]
Jason Kates is Founder and CEO of Argo Digital Solutions, Inc. and rVue.com, a digital out-of-home advertising exchange. AdExchanger.com: Can you give quantify the Digital Out-Of-Home (DOOH) reach for Argo’s rVue Exchange? Do you think of reach in terms of networks or stores or consumers who are estimated to see particular digital media in a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Vertical State of the Display Ad Market In a piece by MediaWeek’s Mike Shields, Adify is reporting that display ad prices are rebounding and names categories such as Real Estate ($6.49 CPMs in Q2, was half that in Q4 2008) and Sports ($7.09 […]
Stephano Kim is President and Chief Operating Officer of x+1, an online buying platform and data company. AdExchanger.com: A recent SEC filing shows that [x+1] has recently raised approximately $2 million. What will the new funds be used for? And, why a smaller raise like this as opposed to a larger raise or using debt? […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. In the last few months, those of us working in the world of ad exchanges have been bombarded by articles and discussions about issues that will directly affect our careers: privacy regulation, data sources, emerging business models and […]
