According to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, multiple sources tell him that sell-side platform AdMeld is being acquired for $400 million by Google – a very healthy number – especially if previous rumors of $150-200 million were true and AdMeld held out for more. Also, as Arrington points out, the company raised only $30 million in venture […]
PaidContent’s David Kaplan has a look at the one-year anniversary of Google’s acquisition of Invite Media with its co-founder Zach Weinberg who tells Kaplan that Invite has “largely been ‘left alone’ in terms of conducting its business.” Read it. At yesterday’s Conversational Media Summit, Google exec Neal Mohan said, “Invite Media has been one of […]
The Conversational Marketing Summit continued for a second day at the Hudson Theater in New York City as Internet Week hurtled along. In the late morning, “The Charlie Rose of New Media” – a.k.a. Federated Media‘s John Battelle – proceeded with his long list of interviewees as Google VP of Product Neal Mohan became his […]
AdExchanger.com asked ad industry executives: “What’s your take on Google announcing yesterday that it is now selling guaranteed ‘premium’ inventory from publishers on the Google Display Network?” John Montgomery is COO, North America of GroupM Interaction, a WPP Company. “This is a beta program running across a few verticals. Google appears to be pursuing the […]
Facebook’s list of approved ad networks for apps still doesn’t include Google’s AdSense. The news continues to swirl as apparently the list was finalized last week according to a post on Slashdot. This remains one, complicated story with huge stakes for both Facebook and Google. And, neither company is talking. Developers are pissed off and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL Agonistes There is something about AOL’s mystique that seems to attract a lot of deep thinking and furrowed brows about its future. The company, which has been around almost as long as the modern Internet, has gone through many faces and phases: Internet […]
From the Official Google blog, Google exchange strategy takes center stage as VP of Product Management Neal Mohan announces the publication of a new whitepaper which reaffirms what he says is the contribution which the DoubleClick Ad Exchange is making to the advertising ecosystem. Read the post. And, download the paper. (PDF) Mohan notes the […]
Henrique de Castro is VP of Global Media and Platforms at Google. He recently discussed the Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange and other key elements of the company’s display strategy with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: For Google, can you qualify the strategic value of the DoubleClick Ad Exchange and what it represents? HdC: Display is a huge engine […]
All Things D’s Peter Kafka reports that AppNexus direct access to Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange display ad inventory has been cut-off temporarily for what appears to be one of two reasons – which actually may be intertwined. Kafka quotes a Google spokesperson who suggests there may have been something going on with an unidentified campaign(s) […]
VivaKi Nerve Center CEO Curt Hecht discussed his company’s relationship with Google as well as Publicis/VivaKi’s strategy for pursuing this key relationship as it looks to provide audience-driven buying services to VivaKi member media agencies. Hecht also addressed a recent TechCrunch report that intimated rebates may be a part of VivaKi’s deal with Google. AdExchanger.com: […]
