Eugene Becker is Director, Analytics of the Media Innovation Group (The MIG), WPP Group’s proprietary technology firm. AdExchanger.com: What is your perspective on the attribution challenge within the broader context of measurement and analytics? EB: We see the lack of a viable attribution metric as a central, if not the central dilemma facing digital marketers. […]
PubMatic announced its new Data Firewall product which the company says enables “publishers [to] get visibility into 3rd party companies that are tracking the publisher’s audience via pixels or cookies and causing data leakage.” Furthermore, the product provides the ability to view revenue by third-party provider (such as an ad network) according to the release. […]
Jim Brock is CEO of Privacy Choice, a web tools company focused on consumer privacy. AdExchanger.com: First, please share a bit of background on you. And how did you come up with the idea for Privacy Choice? JB: I’ve always been in and around ad-supported media, as a Yahoo! executive and as a founder, investor […]
Marketshare Partners announced today that it has acquired analytics company, JovianData (AdExchanger.com Q&A from earlier in the year). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read the release. Wes Nichols, co-Founder and CEO of MarketShare Partners discussed the deal and the benefits of the combined companies. AdExchanger.com: Explain the fit between JovianData and MarketShare Partners […]
LucidMedia is providing its contextual ClickSense technology “to enable enhanced contextualization services within ValueClick’s online advertising platforms.” Read the release. LucidMedia CEO Ajay Sravanapudi discussed the ValueClick deal. AdExchanger.com: Does this deal represent a strategic shift for LucidMedia? Are you moving away from the DSP model you announced earlier in the year? AS: No, our […]
“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Mark Zagorski is CRO, eXelate I applaud John Garber for taking this subject on in his very well written and interesting piece (read it) yesterday. Although I think many of the concepts are right on, including the nascent nature […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Alan Pearlstein, CEO at Cross Pixel Media. I have been overwhelmed by Zappos retargeting ads recently. Apparently, I am not the only one. Michael Learmonth wrote a piece […]
Hooman Radfar is CEO of Clearspring, a social data and solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: Why are you entering the online audience space now? HR: Clearspring has always been focused on creating innovative data-driven, technologies to connect publishers and advertisers to users of the social web. Over the last couple of years, we have done that by […]
eXelate announced today that it has raised a “$15 million second round of funding led by Silicon Valley’s Menlo Ventures with participation of Israel’s Carmel Ventures, who led the company’s $4 million ‘A’ round.” Read the release. CEO Meir Zohar discussed the implications of the funding as well as impact of the data market on […]
