“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. In the last few months, those of us working in the world of ad exchanges have been bombarded by articles and discussions about issues that will directly affect our careers: privacy regulation, data sources, emerging business models and […]
Paul Cimino is CEO of Brilig, a data optimization platform. AdExchanger.com: What is Brilig? Do you consider it a technology or services company? Gotta ask – what does the name mean? PC: Brilig is a technology company with a patent pending process for data integration that provides advertising data and analysis capabilities to online publishers, […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Karin Blake, Senior Lead of Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. An Economist piece two weeks ago centered on the popular question of how social media companies will monetize their networks and whether or not banner advertising could be their revenue savior. The explosive growth of users […]
Andy Cocker and Martin Kelly are co-Founders and Managing Partners of UK-based, Infectious Media Ltd. AdExchanger.com: How does the UK advertising marketplace perceive exchanges today? What can be improved? IM: There’s still a lot of misinformation being peddled in the UK around Ad Exchanges. Some of this comes from Networks who probably feel that exchanges […]
Demand-side platforms are becoming the rage. Whether you’re creating an agency platform strategy or offering white-label solutions for all ad buyers including ad networks, agencies or directs. So, what’s driving the media buying platform trend and when will Nintendo release its console version? I’ll leave the Nintendo version alone for now (Imagine “Dance Dance Revolution” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Web Trends Eats WideMile For Its Insights Analytics provider, WebTrends, has bought multi-variate testing and site optimization company, WideMile for an unknown sum. Release here. Analytics companies are broadening their tool set to discover actionable, consumer insights for their clients. A blog post just […]
Gary Strauss is National Digital Sales Manager of Sporting News. Is it frustrating having a great brand, but needing to compete against much larger sites such as ESPN and CBS Sportsline? What does Sporting News do to entice advertisers who can get much better scale elsewhere? GS: No I would not categorize it as frustrating. […]
Another privacy piece on the behavioral ad network business has been launched – this time by The New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford. In her piece entitled, “Ads Follow Web Users, and Get Deeply Personal,” web ads are considered “Orwellian.” Good god. That’s over the top and reminiscent of other recent pieces in the media (like […]
Paul Edmondson is CEO of YieldBuild, a yield optimization company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe the momentum you’re seeing at YieldBuild. For example, how many participating publishers are a part of your optimization offering these days? We’re really happy with our growing publisher base. While we want to respect our publishers’ privacy, we can say that we […]
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 […]
