Publishers

Pubmatic has released its latest Ad Price Index focusing on “premium publishers.” According to the report, CPM pricing has been moving up. Read the release. And, download the report (PDF). AdExchanger.com spoke to PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev Goel about the report. AdExchanger.com: In your estimation, what’s the biggest “a ha!” in the report? RG: The most […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The NY Times Subscription Model Drum roll, please. It appears that the New York Times is going to finally unveil its subscription model. According to Staci Kramer of PaidContent, it appears that there may be a “metered” system similar to Financial Times which allows […]

AdExchanger.com asked PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev Goel about their recent estimate for total RTB (real-time bidding) spend this year and last which he offered in a MediaWeek byline this week.  Goel emphasized that this is an estimate. RG: Our estimate is based on our own methodology. Here is an overview of how we came up with […]

“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Tom Shields is CEO of Yieldex, a publisher yield optimization company. Google’s release of the DoubleClick Ad Exchange 2.0 has introduced Real-Time Bidding (RTB) to a much wider audience, While they were not the first, they are probably the biggest, and […]

Feedback has been increasingly consistent within the large publisher community for the past few months. (Note: I’m not saying “premium publishers.” You can be premium and be small/targeted!) For large publishers looking to optimize display ad yield on their website, it’s no longer good enough for a yield optimization company to simply offer better CPMs […]

Markus Frind is CEO of PlentyOfFish.com, an online dating site. AdExchanger.com: The background is fairly well-known about Plenty of Fish (Inc. Magazine, 2009) – free dating site that has taken off with huge traffic and interest – and all built and serviced by one guy – you. Have things changed? Hire anyone? MF: I don’t […]

In a release today, AdMeld announced “the introduction of Real Time Bidding (RTB) capabilities in the United Kingdom” through its partners AdJug, AppNexus, Infectious Digital, Invite Media and MediaMath. Read more. AdExchanger.com corresponded with AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett about the news … AdExchanger.com: Are you aggregating UK publishers and selling their inventory? Or, are you […]

Patrick Keane is CEO of Associated Content, an online publishing platform. AdExchanger.com: Given AOL’s recent positioning in the content creation space, where does Associated Content fit? And, is it odd having Tim Armstrong as an advisor and competitor? PK: Tim remains an investor and friend of the company. I cannot comment about Tim or AOL’s […]

Ruben Buell is CEO of AdShuffle. AdExchanger.com: How has AdShuffle evolved since its inception?  What opportunities is AdShuffle seeing today that it didn’t see when AdShuffle began in 2005? RB: AdShuffle started out as a real-time ad serving solution for publishers in 2005 and has grown into a fully integrated real-time advertiser and publisher solution […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mags Getting Digital Staci Kramer of PaidContent reports that five magazine publishers have made it official: they’re going after the e-reader market with open standards for the “technology, advertising and digital sales.” The five pubs – Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith), News Corp, and Time […]

“Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Andrew Pancer, Chief Operating Officer of Media6Degrees. It’s become a sport to bash ad networks over the past couple years, with panels and articles calling for publishers to “fire your network.” My personal favorite was […]

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This post follows up on an article this week by MediaWeek’s Mike Shields in regards to concerns publishers have about agency demand-side platforms (DSPs). Read the article. In the article, Shields said that Rubicon Project met with some of these publishers. A Rubicon Project spokesperson provided the following responses. AdExchanger.com: Did Rubicon Project meet with […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hearst Has A Billion Dollars And you don’t. The NY Post’s Keith Kelly writes that the replacement of SVP Ronald Doerfler by Mitchell Scherzer may signal the beginning of a more aggressive digital acquisition strategy as the company looks to grow new revenue stream […]

By John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchanger.com. “Hey Frankie – have you heard? Brand safety solutions are the rage!” [Cue the surf music.] Within the recent demand-side platform (DSP) trend where advertisers effect buying strategies across multiple supply sources – and potentially hundreds of websites -, a growing list of companies and products is emerging to […]

By John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchanger.com. For starters, if I were a publisher these days, I’d become a buyer. I’m not exactly sure how this happens. What should publishers buy, after all? But, publishers need to jump into the weeds and close their gap of understanding when it comes to the rapid innovation occurring on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search Spend Trend The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel covers trends in search ad spending and how marketers are trying new strategies (display!) to get the most bang for their buck. She cites recent GroupM Search and ComScore research as marketers are using social […]

Amiad Solomon is CEO of Peer39, an online semantic advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe momentum in 2009 for Peer39. AS: This has been a breakout year for us as we have been recognized as the leading innovator in the field of semantic advertising and targeting. Early in 2009 we started working primarily with publishers […]

Christine Watkins is CEO of INVISION INC., a provider of advertising sales management systems to the broadcast and cable network industries. The advertiser is looking for better attribution models across all forms of advertising these days including TV.  Please discuss INVISION’s transition from a primary focus on tools for traditional television ad sales to an […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Hires – Shows TerminalOne Screenshots MediaMath announced Monday that it has hired former DoubleClick-er and (most recently) CTO of Travel Ad Network, Anthony Katsur, as “General Manager, Platform.” Also, more news from MediaMath as the company sent AdExchanger.com exclusive screenshots of the new […]

“The Sell-Sider” is a new column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Michael Barrett is CEO of AdMeld, a publisher yield optimization company. There’s been a lot of interesting talk over the past few weeks about the potential impact of Google Ad Exchange. While there seems to be consensus that the platform […]

Janneke Niessen is CEO of Improve Digital, a publisher yield optimization firm based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: How did Improve Digital begin? Publishers are facing a shift in the online advertising ecosystem where performance campaigns, ad networks and exchanges are playing a more and more dominant role. In 2007, over 40 percent of the […]

Read more reaction on the launch of the new DoubleClick Ad Exchange, its benefits and any concerns from members of the online advertising ecosystem… 24/7 Real Media Acxiom AdBuyer.com AdMeld AdReady Aggregate Knowledge Audience Science Bluetie Brand.net Brilig ContextWeb/ADSDAQ DataXu eXelate Forbes.com Invite Media MediaMath RocketFuel Triggit TRAFFIQ Turn Undertone Networks [x+1] Yieldex Agency Reaction […]

David Smith is CEO of Mediasmith, a digital advertising media agency. The biggest impact will be the increased credibility and volume to the Exchange category. It should also give a big boost to the technology platforms like Turn, MediaMath and Invite which agencies are increasingly using to combine exchange purchasing with targeting options. Our concern […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting Reach Undertone Networks announced yesterday “U360 AudiencePlus™.” In an example from Undertone publishing partner A&E, the new offering is positioned as an audience retargeting solution which will retarget A&E visitors (cookied by Undertone), for example, when they visit other sites within the Undertone […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The IDG Ad Network Spencer Ante of Businessweek looks at how traditional print publisher, IDG, has created an ad network that not only sells advertising for its own properties but other non-IDG properties, too, as well as distributes content to those properties. It’s a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Displaying In Social Media Peter Kafka of All Things D looks at display advertising CPMs in social media thanks to Comscore Media Metrix. Kafka notes that MySpace and Facebook “accounted for 17.4 percent of the display ads in the U.S” in July according to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic Hires Peter Kafka of All Things D reports that Andrew Rutledge, who had been in charge of publisher sales for DoubleClick for the past year, has moved to yield optimizer, PubMatic, and assumed a similar role. (Read the release.) Josh Wetzel from eBay […]

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. Portals, Publishers and Networks, Oh My! Citing three years of data that include more than 4,800 marketing campaigns collected by WPP’s Dynamic Logic, The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel delivers the details on a new OPA study which says that large publisher’s premium (i.e. […]