“The Provocateur” column is intended to incite discussion on a variety of topics around the evolution of digital media. Darren Herman is Founder, Varick Media Management and Chief Digital Media Officer of kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners Liquidity is “Easy,” Valuation is Hard – Current “demand side” technology platforms do not ingest client side data […]
“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 Andy Monfried, CEO at Lotame. There’s been a lot of chatter in the marketplace of late on the evolving nature of DSPs, networks, SSPs, agencies, and data providers. […]
Michael Walrath is the former CEO of Yahoo!’s Right Media. As eBay became pervasive, a slew of companies appeared with the sole purpose of helping people buy and sell goods on the giant auction site more effectively. These service businesses earned a slice of the transaction value for their efforts. Others took a different approach. […]
“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 Ajay Sravanapudi, CEO at LucidMedia. Demand Side Platforms (DSP) are hot! I can tell by the huge agency interest, and even more eager venture capitalists anxious to get […]
“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 Ken Rona, PhD, V.P. Data Strategy and Client Analytics at [x+1]. Over the last couple of years, I have been in the data business, selling and buying, […]
Vlad Stesin is VP, Strategy at BLOOM Digital Platforms, makers of AdGear, an ad serving platform. AdExchanger.com: Please discuss AdGear. How did it start? And what challenge is AdGear trying to solve? The team working on the platform has built and operated the proprietary ad serving infrastructure at Cossette, Canada’s largest independent advertising agency. We’ve […]
“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Martin Kelly is co-Founder and Managing Partner of UK-based agency, Infectious Media Ltd. One of the most exciting changes that the exchange era has promised for the industry is data liquidity. This is a concept that was brought to me in […]
Demand-side platform provider, CPM Advisors, announced a partnership today with BlueKai today which it says uniquely offers clients access to BlueKai’s in-market data directly within CPM Advisor’s CPMatic media buying platform. To date, CPM Advisors has been a part of BlueKai’s Certification program. Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to CPM Advisors CEO Rob Leathern more […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IPO For FriendFinder PaidContent’s Rafat Ali says that the update s-1 registration statement indicates that FriendFinder Networks has cut its original IPO plans in half and will now seek “only” $220 million. The original raise of $460 million was going to be used to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CBS Lovin’ Ad Exchanges Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth breaks the supposed bad news for ad networks that CBS Interactive is showing the door to arbitrage in hopes of boosting direct ad sales, eliminating channel conflict and getting control of their data. The good news? […]
