Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Go-To-Marketer Plan Marketers are getting thirstier, The Wall Street Journal reports. That isn’t new. (This is the industry that gave birth to Shingy and Gary Vaynerchuk.) But there’s been a marked uptick in CMOs using brand-building and content-writing services to try and climb […]
AdColony further trimmed its executive ranks this week in an effort to streamline the business and get to profitability. The mobile video ad network did away with at least five senior and mid-level roles in North America. AdColony’s former VP of performance, Tim O’Neil, who joined AdColony less than a year ago, was let go […]
AdColony will lay off more than 20% of its workforce and exit the mediation and ad-serving game in a bid to focus its business on programmatic. The mobile video ad company said Monday that it will shutter most of AdMarvel, the mobile ad tech company it acquired in 2010. The ad exchange portion of AdMarvel […]
Ad-tech companies shed hundreds of employees from their payrolls in recent weeks. Turn, PubMatic, Collective and Centro all laid off workers, adding to the toll of Rocket Fuel’s large job cuts earlier this year. The cited reasons vary but often boil down to simple survival as ad tech companies position themselves for profitability in a tough market. […]
