Matt Greitzer is VP of Search Marketing and Head of ATOM Systems at Razorfish. AdExchanger.com: What can you tell us about momentum in Razorfish’s ad exchange practice? Any year-over-year comparisons that you can draw? We’ve only been in market for about nine months, so it’s too early for year-over-year comparisons, but we’ve seen consistent month […]
Internet entrepreneur and now writer, Michael Wolff, opened today’s ContextWeb event on media trading saying, “This is a desperate time for the media business.” Well…. one person’s desperation is apparently someone else’s opportunity as a full-house invaded the Paley Media Center in New York City. Entitled,”Agency Demand Platforms: Is Everyone a Media Trader?,” the event […]
Joanna L. O’Connell is Manager of Strategic Development, ATOM Systems, Razorfish. The word “transparency” seems to be everyone’s favorite word these days. Clients want it, publishers fear it, and networks – increasingly – boast that they offer it. I’d like to propose that we’re thinking about this word in the wrong way and suggest that […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. New demand-side platforms now make it possible to execute buying strategies and purchase directly across wide swaths of inventory, cutting out the middle-man aggregators. Agencies have to think about how this new technology impacts and changes their media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. VivaKi Rebrands Exchange in India Publicis’ David Kenny continues his globetrotting and tells Kapil Ohri of “afaqs!” in India that “India Media Exchange (IMX) — the consolidated media buying arm of Starcom MediaVest Group, Zenith Optimedia and Solutions Digitas – will be renamed as […]
“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Sam Temes, Associate, Platform Management, Ad Exchanges, at Razorfish. In the last few months, those of us working in the world of ad exchanges have been bombarded by articles and discussions about issues that will directly affect our careers: privacy regulation, data sources, emerging business models and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Former aQuantive Exec Turns VC Emily Steel interviews former Microsoft ad executive and aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews for the WSJ Digits blog. McAndrews is joining Seattle-based VC company, Madrona Venture Group, and will run a $250 million investment fund. You can read more from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adgregate Markets Selling Domain: adexchange.com In an AdExchanger.com exclusive, Henry Wong, CEO of Adgregate Markets (AdExchanger.com Q&A) said the Company is selling the domain “adexchange.com“. Wong said, “Adgregate Markets is divesting non-core assets, which includes AdExchange.com, that are non-essential to its core ShopAds business.” […]
Read all about it. It’s official today – Publicis has acquired Razorfish for $530 million: Bloomberg, Agence France Presse, The Wall Street Journal, Publicis release (PDF en Francais), and The New York Times. According to Bloomberg, “Razorfish will continue to operate under its own name, and will remain Microsoft’s ‘agency of record’ for online advertising […]
Today, Day 2 of Search Engine Strategies NYC, featured a collection of agency executives who discussed the current online display advertising market in a panel titled, “Pardon My Reach: A Snapshot of the Display Ad Marketplace.” With AdExchanger.com’s focus on ad exchanges, this was an opportunity to learn about agency opinion and innovations as it […]
