Earlier this month, online advertising technology company AdKeeper announced new investment in the company totaling $35 million and led by Oak Investment Partners. From the release, “The funding will be used to grow one of the strongest online media startups in history, with the largest group of charter advertisers ever assembled by a new company […]
What a year! The acronym barrier has been broken time and again as data-driven media gains speed across digital channels. Can 2011 top 2010? You bet. And in honor of the rollicking year ahead, all of the ad ecosystem’s predictions for the coming year from AdExchanger.com’s recent survey have been collected into one handy PDF. […]
“The Debate” is a column focused on the current debate around ad targeting and consumer privacy. Today’s article is written by Russell Glass, CEO, Bizo. This article is about the importance of transparency. In that vein, let me start out by saying that I am the CEO of a company that specializes in business audience […]
JT Batson is President, DDS Digital at Donovan Data Systems, a supplier of back office systems to the agency market. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start at the beginning – what intrigued you about coming to Donovan Data Systems (DDS)? JTB: I was attracted by the scale and the sandbox. DDS provides media transaction systems for media buying […]
Mike Leo is CEO of Operative, an online advertising systems company. (Editor’s note: Operative acquired Solbright last week – read more about the acquisition from Adotas’ Gavin Dunaway. And, read the release.) AdExchanger.com: Seven years as CEO and President for one company is not the norm for digital. Why does it make sense for you? […]
Publicis MediaVest svp, director of publisher investment and activation, Robin Steinberg, and Sarah Baehr, svp, director of digital publishing solutions, discussed transformation occurring at their agency which serves the magazine publisher world and how digital is impacting that strategy. Baehr was recently hired by MediaVest after spending six years at digital agency Razorfish as head […]
On Wednesday, online ad network AudienceScience, announced the acquisition of Consorte Media, an ad network targeting Hispanics online. According to the release, “Consorte Media employees will become part of the AudienceScience team, and Consorte’s San Francisco headquarters will become the newest branch location of AudienceScience.” Read more. CEO Jeff Hirsch of AudienceScience discussed the acquisition […]
Yesterday in a release, performance marketing company MediaTrust announced that it had acquired Bardon Advisors, a “Los Angeles-based, CPC search & affiliate marketing platform for online advertisers and publishers.” In the process, it named Bardon Founder & CEO Keith Cohn as President of MediaTrust. Read more. Peter Bordes, CEO of MediaTrust, discussed the acquisition and […]
“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Nick Talbert, Director of Product Marketing, Eyeblaster, a campaign management and advertising technology company. Search and display budgets decisions made within their silos will only yield non-scalable results. Attribution decisions need to be channel agnostic and […]
Dave Morgan, CEO of Simulmedia, a technology company that “delivers television viewership through data-driven program promotion,” discussed the company’s latest round of financing (see release) and recent insights. AdExchanger.com: From your standpoint, can you expand on why Time Warner is a strategic fit for Simulmedia? What were you looking for in this new round of […]
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, […]
This past Thursday morning, Search Engine Strategies reprised its display advertising panel, “Ad Networks & Exchanges: How the Search O/S is Changing the Display Game,” for the New York audience. Given that the panel was up against a formidable group of search engine marketing superstars in another room, this panel more than held its own […]
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, […]
AdExchanger.com recently asked several members of the advertising ecosystem about “Middlemen” and, specifically: “Are there too many parties trying to insert themselves into the online advertising value chain? How do you see this playing out?” The following contribution is an agency perspective from Michael Brunick, VP, Media Technology Director at IPG’s Mediabrands Worldwide, and part […]
AdExchanger.com recently asked several members of the advertising ecosystem about “Middlemen” and, specifically: “Are there too many parties trying to insert themselves into the online advertising value chain? How do you see this playing out?” The following contribution is an agency perspective from MDC Partners’ Darren Herman, founder Varick Media Management & Chief Digital Media […]
AdExchanger.com recently asked several members of the advertising ecosystem about “Middlemen” and, specifically: “Are there too many parties trying to insert themselves into the online advertising value chain? How do you see this playing out?” Over the next several days, we will post their answers. The following contributions are from Google and Yahoo! which provide […]
Matthias Pantke is CEO of AdScale GmbH, an online advertising marketplace based in Germany, AdExchanger.com: Give us a bit of background on you and how it’s prepared you as well as the evolution of AdScale’s business model – which has been around for a few years, correct? My career started at DSF in 1997 (the […]
Tom Pace is CEO of Solbright, a web publisher solutions provider. AdExchanger.com: Solbright has been around for a while. Discuss the evolution of your company and how it has tracked changes in the online ad industry. Solbright started out as a practical solution for addressing the basic business processes of publishers and Web sites looking […]
Dan Beltramo is CEO of Vizu, an online advertising effectiveness research company. How did Vizu begin? And where did the name come from? Vizu began with the vision that market research could be made more widely available and useful by using the internet to make it much faster, easier, and less expensive to conduct. While […]
Amiad Solomon is CEO of Peer39, an online semantic advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe momentum in 2009 for Peer39. AS: This has been a breakout year for us as we have been recognized as the leading innovator in the field of semantic advertising and targeting. Early in 2009 we started working primarily with publishers […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is a new column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Zach Coelius, CEO of Triggit, an online advertising, media trading company. As loyal readers of AdExchanger.com know, we are currently seeing a very significant platform shift […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ad:tech Chicago Cranks Up In Chicago, today and tomorrow, ad:tech Chicago takes place at historic Navy Pier. A jam-packed agenda includes opening keynote speaker Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of Denuo and Chief Innovation Officer at Publicis Groupe Media as well as many other representatives from […]
Rob Friedman is Co-founder and EVP of Digital Element. AdExchanger.com: Can you layout the basic ways your clients are using Digital Element’s IP detection services? RF: Digital Element‘s customers use our IP Intelligence solutions in a variety of ways such as improving response and click-through rates through more accurate ad geotargeting; reducing advertiser variance issues […]
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, an online advertising provider. AdExchanger.com: PaperG is getting a lot of traction in the online news vertical. Why? VW: Flyerboard is based on one of the most popular methods of exchanging local news — the community bulletin board. It isn’t surprising to the PaperG team that Flyerboard has been […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Bull Found Martin Peers of The Wall Street Journal discusses the recent benefits of the Microsoft search deal to Yahoo! and suggests that it may be in a good position to capitalize on display. Peers says that “although Yahoo is taking the risky […]
Doug Knopper is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FreeWheel, an online video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the key learnings that you’re bringing forward from your experience as DoubleClick’s GM? DK: There are two key parallels that come through. One is the critical importance of building a strong team, which has been one […]
Paul Pellman is CEO of Click Forensics, a traffic quality management company. How is Click Forensics addressing the display advertising marketplace beyond clicks? While most of our clients are focused on the CPC space, we do have a number of ad network and publisher clients with significant CPM and more display-oriented businesses that see unique […]
Paul Martino is CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, a buy-side optimization platform. AdExchanger.com: What does the new Aggregate Knowledge (AK) Audience Discovery Platform do for advertisers and agencies that they can’t do today? AK’s Audience Discovery Platform delivers real-time, simultaneous optimization of inventory, audience, and creative. Inventory is optimized by determining which individual sites, ad networks, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. TV Needs To Sell In Real-Time The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Vranica and Sam Schechner are reporting that the TV upfront for the four big networks is going to crater a whopping 10-15% – at least – as buyers like HP (quoted for the […]
David Smith is CEO of Mediasmith, a digital advertising media agency. AdExchanger.com: What trends can you share with us regarding the media buying you’re doing on behalf of clients today? DS: There is a lot of change happening in the area of digital media strategy, planning and message distribution. Please notice that we’ve walked away […]
