Turn announced today that Bill Demas has been promoted to CEO of Turn, Inc., an online advertising platform and network company. Jim Barnett, who stepped down from the CEO role, will remain as Chairman. According to the company, this secession plan has been in the works for a while and Demas has been “deeply involved” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. Getting Hyper With IPG Mediabrands’ Geomentum IPG’s Mediabrands announced a new unit (or practice) today called Geomentum. Check out the new site here. With graphical arrows pointing upwards on the site, Mediabrands appears to have a clear vision on the opportunity in cross-channel, local […]
Philip Smolin, General Manager, Platform Solutions at Turn discusses yesterday’s announcement regarding their new, white-label buying platform solutions. AdExchanger.com: How do you differentiate with other solutions in the marketplace such as MediaMath and Invite Media? PS: Turn is best-in-class for custom audience targeting, optimization and analytics. A number of vendors are providing basic exchange management […]
Turn has announced today that it will offer a white label version of its buying platform to agencies and advertisers. (Read the release.) Previously known as a network and exchange, Turn will now let buyers buy media from the same sources that Turn-the-network does for its clients with its Exchange Trading Desk product. In addition, […]
Chris Hulse is CEO of Inflection Point Media, a business-to-business ad network. Any current trends that you can share in Inflection Point Media‘s B2B ad network business – strengths, weaknesses? And, have publisher CPMs cratered like they have in the B2C world? Inflection Point Media’s complete focus on the SMB market has been our strength. […]
Yes, it’s that time again. More ad exchange-related news! Kevin Lee sings the praises of search retargeting on ClickZ and encourages everyone to take advantage of Yahoo!’s offering. We could not agree more that this type of retargeting hold great promise as a killer behavioral targeting solution – especially if Google can unleash its enormous […]
In a memorable clip from 1977 film classic Annie Hall, a young Jeff Goldblum says his one and only line into the phone, “Hello? I lost my mantra.” Transporting ahead Star Trek-style to 2009, publishers struggle with their mantra saying, “Hello? I lost my CPMs.” Demand-side voice, Rob Griffin of Media Contacts – makers of […]
