Platforms

Josh McFarland is CEO of TellApart, an online media buying platform. AdExchanger.com: Is TellApart a demand-side platform? JM: Our core business is in helping e-commerce companies unify, manage and predictively analyze their customer data — all within a “customer database in the cloud.”  Of course, what good is a beautifully manicured customer list without a […]

Julian Tol is the Founder & CEO of Brandscreen Inc., a digital media trading platform. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Brandscreen solving? JT: The problem we solve is the reduction of transactional friction. Generally speaking, the industry suffers from over-complexity, with online display sales systems built on top of offline technologies. There’s poor visibility for buyers, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Network And Publishers In Mediaweek Following last week’s article in which Mediaweek reporter Mike Shields identified several publishers who claimed that ad network, InterCLICK, had misrepresented their inventory, this week, each is given the Mediaweek microphone to state their case. Read more. InterCLICK […]

John D. Corbett, PhD is Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of aWhere, which provides an analytics platform focused on location intelligence. AdExchanger.com: Please give us a bit of history about aWhere.  A new company?  Or pivoting for new opportunity? aWhere is a ten year old company that has historically focused on the agribusiness and […]

Following up Merkle’s presentation at the NexTargeting event hosted by [x+1] in March, demand-side platform, [x+1]. announced a broad partnership with customer relationship marketing agency, Merkle, as “the two companies will provide marketers with a truly integrated, analytics-based multichannel approach to customer acquisition.”  Read the release. John Nardone, Chairman and CEO of [x+1], discussed the […]

Jeremy Helfand, EVP and Chief Sales Officer, at United Online, discussed the company’s new audience-buying platform – Adcurate – which enables audience buying of United Online properties. AdExchanger.com: How will United Online differentiate from competitors such as Fox Audience Network with the Adcurate™ platform? JH: Adcurate is intensely focused on audiences – who they are, […]

Greg Rogers is CEO of Pictela, a brand content distribution platform. AdExchanger.com: How is your Tacoda experience relevant to what you’re doing today with Pictela? GR: At Tacoda we developed a sophisticated targeting engine. Now that the industry can effectively reach the right people, the next step is to build an advanced messaging platform that […]

XA.net (formerly CPM Advisors) announced the results of a recent campaign results using eXelate data and XA.net’s platform, CPMatic.com. According to to the release, “A computer retailer accessing eXelate data on CPMatic.com using multi-day variable frequency caps saw a 92% ROI lift on the targeted campaign vs. a single-frequency-cap no-data control on the same site […]

Jonathan Mendez is the founder of Yieldbot, a publisher-side analytics and targeting platform. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Yieldbot solving? JM: The market problem as I’ve blogged about is the delta between the true value of publisher’s digital media and the return they get from it. It is an inequitable and unsustainable allocation of media dollars. […]

Jon Ingalls is Co-Founder and CEO of TrackSimple, online advertising technology company. Please discuss your background.  Moving big data has always come with the territory it would appear. I’ve been lucky to work in markets where data is very important.  I was at Amazon.com during an incredible growth cycle and was responsible for building out […]

Search retargeting technology company, Magnetic, announced the company’s launch and $1.25 million in funding which includes a roster of investors such as NYC Seed and IA Capital Partners. Read the release. Josh Shatkin-Margolis, CEO of Magnetic, discussed the new funding and the company’s strategy. Magnetic (originally Domdex) has been stealth for a while now. Why? […]

AudienceScience announced that media companies Hearst, Discovery, Scripps, and BBC Worldwide among others are using its publisher platform. Hearst notes that it is using the platform in order to enable audience segmentation for direct sales. Read the release. AudienceScience CEO Jeff Hirsch discussed the publisher platform, its features and positioning for the client. Please discuss […]

X+1 announced that it has added new features to its demand-side platform. Read the release. X+1 CEO John Nardone discussed the recent updates to his company’s platform and demand-side platforms, in general. Why is a universal tag a step forward? Can you give some background as to what marketers have been used to? JN: Our […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adchemy’s Nukala On DSPs CEO Murthy Nukala of demand-side platform, Adchemy, says that in his opinion there are five things that current DSPs can’t do for major advertisers in a column on MediaPost. Number one is: “Create highly specific audiences. DSPs do not allow […]

Yesterday, Yahoo! announced their demand-side platform (DSP) pilot program yesterday in a post co-authored by Ramsey McGrory (VP, North American Marketplaces) and Seth Dallaire (VP, Mid Market Sales) on the Yahoo! advertising blog.  In discussing its partnership with five demand-side platforms and its DSP strategy going forward, McGrory and Dallaire wrote: “The pilot will demonstrate […]

“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Today’s column is written by Devkumar Gandhi, Founder & CEO of Nexage. “Mobile is the next big thing… and it always will be.” How many times have we laughed and cried at the humor and reality of that quip? The reality […]

“Social Exchange” is a column focused on the evolving roles of social media in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Andrew Pancer, Chief Operating Officer of Media6Degrees. Data is one of today’s hottest industry topics, and managing it well will drive the future of online advertising. DSPs, ad networks, exchanges, and publishers are falling […]

Shawn Riegsecker is Founder & President of Centro, a media services and technology firm and makers of Transis, a media buying system. AdExchanger.com: Can you discuss the pivots in Centro’s business model since 2001? And how has it led today’s Transis offering? Centro’s vision is the same today as the day we started. Our whole […]

Demand-side platform, DataXu, announced today that it raised $11 million in a Series B financing led by VC firm, Menlo Ventures. Read the release. DataXu CEO Mike Baker discussed the raise and the services layer with DataXu’s offering. AdExchanger.com: How long did it to take to raise this round?  Is the DSP world resonating with […]

Jay Habegger is CEO of ownership targeting company, OwnerIQ. AdExchanger.com: How did OwnerIQ begin? JH: OwnerIQ was born out a few simple insights. Effective advertising is presenting the right message to the consumer that resonates and influences perceptions or compels actions. Our first insight, supported by research, is that knowing about a person’s stuff tells […]

Alex Baydin, Founder and CEO of PerformLine, an online performance marketing company. AdExchanger.com: Please discuss your background. What key learning’s did you bring forward from Epic Advertising where you were GM to PerformLine? AB: I have been in Online Advertising for the past ten (10) years, focusing mainly on advertising sales, business development, and product […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Predicts Display Rev Decrease In a 10-K filing today with the Securites Exchange Commission, AOL revealed that its expecting its display ad revenue to be down from a year ago in Q1.  According to Barron’s Eric Savitz, the company blamed the decrease on […]

Frost Prioleau and Paul Harrison are CEO and CTO, respectively, of Simpli.fi, a demand-side platform for search marketers. AdExchanger.com: Let’s look back, first. The last company you both were involved in was Personifi. Can you give us a brief history? And then discuss how your Personifi experience has informed the creation of Simpl.fi? Harrison: Actually, […]

Late last week, Acquisio announced that it was integrating DART into its paid search platform Though DART is used for paid search, display advertising may be a logical next step for a platform such as Acquisio’s.  Read the release. Martin Le Sauteur, CEO of Acquisio, discussed the implications of the DART integration. AdExchanger.com:  Why integrate […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Wins Patent; Owns Mobile OK, Google doesn’t own mobile, yet, but it has added another patent to the portfolio as VentureBeat’s Kim-Mai Cutler discovered a recent patent approval by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office titled, “Determining and/or using location information in an […]

Rogier van den Heuvel is VP, Worldwide Sales, of messaging service and Amsterdam-based, eBuddy. AdExchanger.com: What’s the startup culture like in Europe – even Amsterdam, specifically?  Are there hotspots? (i.e. like Silicon Valley in California) Is creating interest with venture capital firms a challenge? There is a thriving start up culture in Europe including tech, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Ad Platform Lurks All Things D’s Peter Kafka has unearthed what Twitter’s new ad platform will look like – it will look like Google’s according to Kafka’s sources. In addition to using 140 character or less ads, Kafka writes, “Twitter will work with […]

Click Forensics announced the “beta version of its display ad verification platform which it says “Protects Against Impression Inflation and Fraud.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to Click Forensics CEO Paul Pellman about the news. AdExchanger.com: Please define what you mean by “impression inflation.” How pervasive is this issue and how do fraudsters pull it […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! On Q1 2010 Barron’s Eric Savitz provides a bulleted list from the remarks made by Hilary Schneider, EVP of Yahoo! North America, at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference in San Francisco. According to Savitz, Schneider said that the “rebound in brand advertising the […]