Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Networking and Behaving This Week Hello Left Coast! More conferences this week for digital advertising enthusiasts as OMMA Ad Nets is in Los Angeles on Tuesday and OMMA Behavioral is in San Francisco on Thursday. The Right Media blog pipes up for the West Coast, “Most of the conferences tend […]
More earnings reports – ch-ching? Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer stepped up to the Microsoft Fiscal 4Q 2009 earnings microphone (see the release) and although he didn’t have a lot to say about advertising on the call – they’ve got a lotta stuff going on over there at MSFT – a few nuggets did slip out in […]
Scott Portugal is SVP, Global Business Development at TRAFFIQ, an online advertising marketplace. AdExchanger.com: Discuss the momentum for TRAFFIQ in 2009. What’s going on right now? SP: What isn’t going on! Obviously, the announcement yesterday of our strategic partnership with Havas Digital is big news. We’re extraordinarily excited about the chance to work with an […]
Kum Bay Yah, Muh Lord. Kum Bay Yah. Congrats to the IAB on their lunch and learn event, “An Out of the Box Lunch with AdMeld, PubMatic, The Rubicon Project and YieldBuild,” in NYC last Thursday. It was a study in how players in the advertising space – in this case, yield optimizers – can […]
Yahoo!’s earnings are out! (PDF) So, what happened to display? It’s a mixed bag – yet relatively positive considering the economy and current state of oversupply of display ad inventory on the Web. From Seeking Alpha’s call transcript: “Worldwide O&O display revenue declined 14% to $393 million. U.S. display declined 11% which was slightly better […]
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. […]
Is Twitter about to add contextual advertising? Seems like it as Twitter-watching AdRants noticed a well-known, beta tester checking out (and tweeting about) the new ad functionality – The New York Times’ Saul Hansell. Hansell tweets: “My last tweet was testing a new ad system that looks at what you Tweet about (like movies or […]
AOL has grabbed “Mr. Microphone” and gone on a PR spree regarding display advertising. Today’s Wall Street Journal article by Emily Steel, “Chief to Focus AOL on Becoming Display-Ad Leader,” tells CEO Tim Armstrong’s side of the display ad story as AOL will be trying to lay claim to leadership held by Yahoo! and Google. […]
Google’s much anticipated Q2 earnings report has arrived and shed some light on display advertising. Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget covered the earnings conference call and jotted down the following from the Google execs: “Display and particularly YouTube have performed very well this quarter. YouTube is now on a trajectory we’re very pleased with.” Nikesh […]
Rob Leathern is CEO of CPM Advisors. AdExchanger.com: CPM Advisors… so I take it you believe the CPM is not dead? RL: CPM Advisors (“CPMa”) typically works with advertisers who are optimizing to a CPA or CPC metric, but realize that they cannot get volume and scale unless they can tap into CPM advertising options. […]
