“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Shapiro, vice president of corporate development at DataXu. In the four years real-time bidding has been commercially available, it has emerged as one of the industry’s fastest-growing technologies. […]
For major publishers that built their businesses on print and glossy magazine pages, there is a clear sense that programmatic ad sales methods are becoming mainstream. What’s less clear is how to address the problems that programmatic has forced on them, namely, the struggle over developing a common metric and how to define terms like […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adrian Tompsett, Vice President of Business Development at DataXu. It’s been a busy couple of months for the emerging viewability metric. Here’s a small sample of headlines: Ford is testing […]
With the World Cup and Olympics coming to Brazil in 2014 and 2016, all eyes are on the country’s preparations for the events, which include readying its digital infrastructure. Brands are waiting for the chance to be at the center of the worldwide stage, and several advertising technology companies have opened offices in Brazil. This […]
Online ad fraud bubbled up in a big way last month, after London-based Spider.io published details of a botnet responsible for generating billions of illegitimate impressions per month. The sites that are selling allegedly non-viewable impressions from the Chameleon botnet are not widely recognized brands. Reports have identified Alphabird and DigiMogul as among the site […]
DataXu has raised a $27 million round, a hefty chunk though somewhat less than other recent investments in similarly mature display ad tech companies. (AppNexus secured $75 million last month, Rocket Fuel took $50 million in June). Thomvest Venture Capital led the round and gains a board seat, while current investors Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Josh Dreller, Director Client & Industry Solutions at Visual IQ. Most people aren’t fans of advertising — online or offline. They’re clutter. They’re distracting. And I’m not even talking […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Mukund Ramachandran, General Manager, Brand Advertising Solutions, DataXu. Over the summer, Bob Arnold of Kellogg started a column called Brand Aware on AdExchanger. Bob wrote something everyone in digital marketing can relate to: […]
Today, DataXu announced that it has acquired demand-side platform (DSP) Mexad, which has its headquarters in Germany as well as offices in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Brazil. Dataxu said in a press release that it hopes to globally expand the use of its DX3 digital ad platform with brand advertisers. Read […]
DataXu announced the next update to its demand-side platform known as DX2 which the company says, “measures, buys, and optimizes ad placements across online, video and mobile display channels, on a real time, impression-by-impression basis.” Read the release. CEO Mike Baker of demand-side platform DataXu discussed the new update to the company’s media buying platform. […]
DataXu announced earlier this week that Hearst digital marketing agency iCrossing had chosen DataXu for demand-side platform services. Read the release. iCrossing VP Dax Hamman discussed the deal as well as iCrossing’s view on DSPs and “intent” media. AdExchanger.com: What are the triggers for choosing to include a demand-side platform in your business model in […]
Demand-side platform DataXu has released a new monthly study called “DataXu MarketPulse.” Among the insights: “DataXu analyzed the price paid for ad impressions across ad exchanges over the past 30 days, and discovered that the average daily price varied by over 100% during the period.” The company also compared CPM pricing volatility to other markets: […]
Demand-side platform, DataXu, announced today that it raised $11 million in a Series B financing led by VC firm, Menlo Ventures. Read the release. DataXu CEO Mike Baker discussed the raise and the services layer with DataXu’s offering. AdExchanger.com: How long did it to take to raise this round? Is the DSP world resonating with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Direct Selling Survey OpenX just release the results of a survey of its publishers who are selling advertising direct for a +$5 CPM. Lots of interesting data points in the survey. What do many of these publishers have in common: they’re “using a direct […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DataXu Hits Digital Airwaves, Print DataXu’s President & CEO, Mike Baker, and Bruce Journey, CRO, were the subjects yesterday of ClickZ’s ongoing, free, interactive marketing and advertising Webcast series. To give a listen, click here (Sign-up gets you admission – available soon.). DataXu is […]
