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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Russell Glass is CEO of Bizo, a business-to-business ad network. AdExchanger.com: Judging from your June release, Bizo business appears to have momentum. Has B2B been slowed in the recession or never stopped? What are you expecting from the economy in the next 12 months? B2B has been hurt by the recession, but it has kept […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Traditional Media Revolts It appears traditional media companies are tired of their Nielsen main course and have decided to try something else from the menu. Bill Carter and Stuart Elliott of The New York Times cover a recent diabolical plot by the heads of […]
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, an online advertising provider. AdExchanger.com: PaperG is getting a lot of traction in the online news vertical. Why? VW: Flyerboard is based on one of the most popular methods of exchanging local news — the community bulletin board. It isn’t surprising to the PaperG team that Flyerboard has been […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Bull Found Martin Peers of The Wall Street Journal discusses the recent benefits of the Microsoft search deal to Yahoo! and suggests that it may be in a good position to capitalize on display. Peers says that “although Yahoo is taking the risky […]
Doug Knopper is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FreeWheel, an online video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the key learnings that you’re bringing forward from your experience as DoubleClick’s GM? DK: There are two key parallels that come through. One is the critical importance of building a strong team, which has been one […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Razorfish CEO On Acquisition CEO Bob Lord of Razorfish tells David Kaplan of PaidContent.org that he expects to fill a clear niche within VivaKi and believes that collaboration between Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia is logical. But, he expects to maintain a wall […]
