It’s official. AOL’s long-rumored entry into the advertising exchange business is here and covered in today’s edition of MediaWeek by Mike Shields among other online news outlets. According to the release: “BidPlace will allow advertisers to submit bids for CPM, CPC and CPA advertising on AOL, on select partner sites and on Platform-A’s third-party network, […]
In Friday’s edition of MediaPost, Turn, Inc. announced that it has opened a four-person New York office to serve as its East Coast headquarters. “Jim Clark, the company’s regional vice president for East Coast sales, will lead the branch, which is expected to add two more people by year’s end.” For the complete release on […]
Bill Morrison, Senior Analyst at ThinkPanmure and one of the few Wall Street analysts with an understanding of ad exchanges, stated in his industry report released today that advertising is entering Phase II of a media recession. Morrison explains his thinking: “First, marketers reduce spot market activity and eliminate quarterly budget flushes. Then, marketers begin […]
According to CNET‘s Stephanie Olsen, Bellevue, Washington-based, BlueKai will unveil its new ad exchange on Monday. After raising a $3.1 million investment from Redpoint Ventures in Q1 of this year, the company founded by Medio Systems and Revenue Science advertising executive Omar Tawakol is ready to tell what all the secrecy has been about these […]
It appears the advertising world is starting to get physical about the pending integration of Google and Yahoo advertising – a deal brokered amidst Yahoo!’s flirtation with Microsoft regarding acquisition of the struggling Sunnyvale company. As Erica Morphy details in her E-Commerce Times article, traditional advertisers, agencies and its lobbying arm, the Association of National […]
According to a statement by Alibaba Group Chairman, Jack Ma, brandrepublic reported late last week that the Alibiba Group is combining Alimama and Taobao.com increase the opportunity for advertisers and publishers. Alimama is the online advertising exchange under Alibaba and Taobao.com is an e-commerce site according to the article. We cannot confirm any of this […]
It would seen that the few advertising exchange blogs that exist took a summer hiatus but yesterday, Right Media’s blog came alive (courtesy of Becca Bullack in Publisher Solutions?) with an announcement regarding a new ad network partner, Meta Network, which has plugged into the exchange. For the little publisher, the Meta Network opportunity will […]
The Media Kitchen, a Kirshenbaum Bond offshoot, has birthed a new ad exchange trading services company called Varick Media Management (a KB “grandchild”?). From the press release: Varick Media Management is the first digital media management company that allows media trading in real time across all online exchanges, ad networks and websites. Similar to hedge […]
Looking to expand its contextual offering, Yahoo!’s Right Media exchange and Lucid Media have signed an agreement that will enable publishers and advertisers on the Right Media Exchange to take advantage of contextual opportunities. This signals a change in Right Media’s previous exhortations about the importance of transparent, single site buys. Having sipped at the […]
Yesterday, Yahoo!’s Right Media announced a new partnership with mega-agency and holding company, WPP Group, that will bring the Right Media Exchange to many of WPP’s top clients. Whether the clients end up using the exchange will be another question. In the NY Times article about the partnership, WPP Group sees a main benefit of […]
