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    Why Machine Learning Loves Metadata; Putting The Brakes On Data Brokers

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New Creative Controls Does “alt_copy_copy2_brand_red_hold” mean anything to you? That’s the way most creative units and product ads are titled, and any associated metadata would likely be the brand’s name and the banner ad size. Meh. But a generative AI bot could […]

  • Jiffy Lube Greases The Digital Wheels With Location-Based Advertising

    Jiffy Lube CMO Jeffrey Lack admits the company had no more than a standard digital strategy back in 2011. “Our digital presence was basically isolated to a national website, a mobile site and a very small pay-per-click program,” Lack said. And as a national oil change chain with thousands of franchisees, that wasn’t doing the trick, […]

  • Former Dapper CEO Beriker Turning Jobs Into Ads At Simply Hired

    Simply Hired is, simply put, a search engine for jobs. But with new president and CEO James Beriker aboard, after his chief executive experience at Efficient Frontier and Dapper (acquired by Yahoo in 2010), the job search business may receive a media makeover. Upon the early 2012 completion of the company’s restructuring, Beriker was hired by the […]

  • LookSmart Looking To Sustain Profit, Grow Revenues Says VP Gill Brown

    Gill Brown is vp of ad sales for LookSmart, an online advertising network. The company recently reported second quarter 2010 financial results. Click here (PDF). AdExchanger.com: What is LookSmart’s core focus today? GB: The core focus for LookSmart is growing our PPC advertising network to the benefit of both our advertiser clients and our publisher […]

  • Agencies Using The Crowd And Trada In Order To Provide Marketing Services Says CEO Robertson

    Trada, a PPC marketing campaign marketplace, announced this week that in the interest of servicing agencies who “were being asked by their clients to offer paid search…and it wasn’t an area that agencies necessarily cared about,” the company has updated it’s marketplace to make it easy for agencies to use. Read more on the Trada […]

  • Criteo Brings Scale To Display Retargeting Says CEO Rudelle

    J.B. Rudelle is CEO of Criteo, a pay-per-click, personalized retargeting company. AdExchanger.com: Why move into the U.S. market now? JBR: Criteo spent 3 years focused on R&D, building the most robust and precise retargeting solution on the market. With almost 2 years of in market experience and over 400 customers successfully implementing our pay per […]