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Aggregate Knowledge announced that it has adopted “BlueKai‘s new server-to-server data transfer technology, which greatly increases the efficiencies in which BlueKai data is transferred and delivered for ad campaign targeting and optimization within the AK Discovery Platform.” Read more. Pascal Bensoussan, VP of Products at Aggregate Knowledge, an audience management and real-time ad optimization platform, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hearst Eyeballing iCrossing Hearst is on the verge of purchasing digital marketing firm, iCrossing, for around $375 million according to Emily Steel and Suzanne Vranica of The Wall Street Journal. The acquisition would come in the footsteps of Dentsu’s purchase of digital marketing firm, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Uncorks Q1 Eric Schmidt was not on the earnings call, but Susan Wojcicki, VP of Product Management was – in fact, that was her first-ever appearance on the quarterly conference call (I think). Display and new monetization efforts were front-and-center. Regarding overall quarterly […]

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“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. At times I feel like the least skilled person at my company, in fact if I hired some management consultants to come in and take a look the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Acquires Adroit Interactive Adroit Interactive – with multi-variate creative technology, an impressive client list and smart people – has been acquired by demand-side platform, MediaMath. Read more on ClickZ. Birds Of Feather Featured The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel looks at “birds of […]

“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 Josh McFarland, CEO of TellApart, an ecommerce data and ads platform. Dear retargeting advertiser — We all agree online advertising needs a more comprehensive metric than the click.  […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Meeker Means More Mobile In an update to her Internet Report from late last year where she said 2010 would be the year of mobile, Mary Meeker spoke at an event at Google yesterday and delivered an “Internet Trends” report. Fear not, mobile is […]

Ad technology company, Resonate Networks, announced today that in its own study, attitudinal targeting showed up to a 4x lift when compared to demographic targeting. Read the release. Resonate Networks’ CEO Bryan Gernert discussed the finer points of attitudinal targeting. Where does attitudinal targeting fit within psychographic targeting (PeerSet, Mindset Media) and behavioral targeting? Attitudinal […]

Alex Willcock is Founder and CEO of Imagini Holdings Limited, an advertising technology company and makers of VisualDNA. AdExchanger.com: Please give us a bit of history about VisualDNA.  A new company? Or  pivoting for new opportunity? AW: I founded the business because I saw an opportunity to change the relationship between commerce and consumers – […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Network And Publishers In Mediaweek Following last week’s article in which Mediaweek reporter Mike Shields identified several publishers who claimed that ad network, InterCLICK, had misrepresented their inventory, this week, each is given the Mediaweek microphone to state their case. Read more. InterCLICK […]

“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. Since I run a venture-backed company, I spend more time with venture capitalists than any sane person should.  Of late, one topic keeps […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Signs Of Life The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel notes that Internet ad spending has re-started its growth trajectory according to new figures from the IAB and Pricewaterhouse Coopers as Q4 2009 spending increased 2.6%. The numbers still pale in comparison to TV dollars […]

AdExchanger.com reached out to members of the digital advertising ecosystem to explore transparency and the role of exchanges, buyers and sellers of online media and their intermediaries. AdExchanger.com welcomes your comments at the end of this post. The question is as follows: Regarding the recent dust-up between an ad network and several publishers as highlighted […]

Following up Merkle’s presentation at the NexTargeting event hosted by [x+1] in March, demand-side platform, [x+1]. announced a broad partnership with customer relationship marketing agency, Merkle, as “the two companies will provide marketers with a truly integrated, analytics-based multichannel approach to customer acquisition.”  Read the release. John Nardone, Chairman and CEO of [x+1], discussed the […]

Will Margiloff, Chairman of Netmining and co-CEO of Innovation Interactive, discussed Netmining’s new SiteInsights product which provides audience insights for a marketer’s campaigns. Read more. AdExchanger.com: Given Netmining’s terminology around “scoring,” do you see the Netmining SiteInsights platform as a solution for lead generation marketers, in particular? WM: We are clearly focused on direct response […]

Jeremy Helfand, EVP and Chief Sales Officer, at United Online, discussed the company’s new audience-buying platform – Adcurate – which enables audience buying of United Online properties. AdExchanger.com: How will United Online differentiate from competitors such as Fox Audience Network with the Adcurate™ platform? JH: Adcurate is intensely focused on audiences – who they are, […]

“Data Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rob Leathern, CEO of XA.net, a demand-side platform. The companies like ours that started looking at the buying-side opportunity in display in 2007 were encouraged by what […]

Adgregate Markets announced a new partnership with rich media advertising provider, PointRoll, which will embed Adgregate’s Shop Ads e-commerce technology within PointRoll ads. Read the release. Adgregate Markets CEO Henry Wong discussed the partnership and its attribution capabilities. How does the integration work of Adgregate Markets technology into PointRoll technology? Adgregate’s suite of APIs and […]

Josh Shatkin-Margolis is CEO of Magnetic, a search retargeting technology company. AdExchanger.com: You touched on it in our interview around your recent funding. What problem is Magnetic looking to solve? Targeting advertisements to visitors of websites without direct knowledge of user intent is difficult. Many targeting and data companies lack transparency in customer segmentation. To […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Banking Bill: A Startup Killer The NextNY blog makes an impassioned plea to torpedo certain parts of Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd’s banking bill which will undermine the efforts of a critical part of the startup capital value chain in the U.S. – angel investors […]

“Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Jeff Hirsch, President and CEO, AudienceScience. A publisher that invests heavily in developing quality, valuable content correspondingly creates two primary assets that advertisers demand.  The one we have grown most familiar with is space, or inventory.  The one that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online Video Ad Upfront The Upfront, as it has been known, is a time of year where marketers and broadcast media companies lock down big deals for the year. Mediaweek’s Mike Shields says that online video ad networks are out to “steal” a share […]

XA.net (formerly CPM Advisors) announced the results of a recent campaign results using eXelate data and XA.net’s platform, CPMatic.com. According to to the release, “A computer retailer accessing eXelate data on CPMatic.com using multi-day variable frequency caps saw a 92% ROI lift on the targeted campaign vs. a single-frequency-cap no-data control on the same site […]

Sacha Berlik is CEO & Co-Founder of Mexad, an auction-based Ad Exchange specialists company. AdExchanger.com: Looking at your experience as GM in Western Europe for Oridian, what learnings are you bringing forward to Mexad? SB: Oridian had account No.1 on Right Media back in 2005 – our CTO had been Director of AdExchange Management for […]

“The Global Address” is a column written by members of the digital media community with an international perspective on the digital space. John Childs-Eddy is VP of Business Development at Australian direct response ad network, Funbox. As I sat at my desk the other day, I remarked to our lead analyst that after reading what […]

“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 Amiad Solomon, CEO at Peer39. In a world where information changes constantly, it can be a steep challenge just to keep up with the latest news and trends. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Koretz Sticks It To Display Firebrand David Koretz takes out the cattle prod and says just what he thinks about display advertising: “It is easier to buy nuclear arms in the former Soviet Union than complete an online display buy.” Then Koretz lists “five […]

Megan Pagliuca is Senior Director of Professional Services of Yahoo!’s Right Media. Data-driven buying should be an integral component of every agency’s media plan, but using a technology platform as a central media trading arm is only the first step in designing a data-driven strategy. It is important to take a holistic approach and leverage […]

Jeff Green, former COO of ad exchange, AdECN (which was purchased by Microsoft in 2007), spoke with AdExchanger.com about the funding of his new company, The Trade Desk. AdExchanger.com: What have you been up to since you left Microsoft’s AdECN? JG: Since nearly the day I left, I’ve been focused on creating a new company, […]