Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday. During the on-stage interview with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, (a little) more information dribbled out on Big G’s ad exchange and display advertising strategy. From CNN: Schmidt also said the search advertising company has a good opportunity […]
During today’s conference call, A.H. Belo Corporation (AHC) which closed at a precarious $1.81 per share today and better known as owners of major regional and local newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, reported that they have integrated their newspaper sites fully onto Yahoo!’s APT platform and are realizing revenue. Unfortunately, it’s not enough […]
Yesterday, Ben Edelman gave the Right Media Exchange on his website by alleging that the Yahoo exchange carries “false and deceptive display ads.” In his compelling analysis, things look bleak as examples of dreaded “You’re a winner!”-type ads look like they are being served through RightMedia. Even CPX Interactive gets called on to the carpet […]
ContextWeb, makers of the ADSDAQ contextual advertising exchange, has published a video on its blog from an entertaining panel at the recent OMMA Ad Nets conference in New York City. Featuring participants in the ad exchange space from Yahoo!’s Right Media and APT, DoubleClick Advertising Exchange, ContextWeb/ADSDAQ and two agency reps, the panel helped outline […]
In an October 13 article, Mike Shields from MediaWeek provides his opinion on Yahoo!, the new APT platform and future direction for the struggling, Web media monolith. Shields reveals that, to-date, no agencies have signed up for the platform and “only the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle newspapers” – presumably on […]
Amid the Advertising Week hubbub in New York City, Yahoo! has announced the launch of its new ad platform, APT, largely dependent on the Right Media Exchange acquired last year by Yahoo!. With Yahoo!’s Newspaper Consortium desperate for revenues, they will be the first to try out the new platform followed by advertisers, agencies and […]
Roger Williams, Director of International Marketing at Right Media, was able to place a nice article in UK’s Net Imperative on online advertising exchanges entitled, “Platforms for Change“. Within the advertiser-focused article are the basics to the Right Media Exchange story including providing tools to advertisers that allow efficient targeting through an open auction. Williams […]
It appears the advertising world is starting to get physical about the pending integration of Google and Yahoo advertising – a deal brokered amidst Yahoo!’s flirtation with Microsoft regarding acquisition of the struggling Sunnyvale company. As Erica Morphy details in her E-Commerce Times article, traditional advertisers, agencies and its lobbying arm, the Association of National […]
It has been two weeks since Valleywag offered up the news that former Right Media Exchange CEO, Michael Walrath, was loading up his truck and moving to arid Sunnyvale, California, where – rumor has it – he’ll be getting a promotion. Certainly his genius in getting Yahoo! to buy the Right Media advertising exchange for […]
Yesterday, Yahoo!’s Right Media announced a new partnership with mega-agency and holding company, WPP Group, that will bring the Right Media Exchange to many of WPP’s top clients. Whether the clients end up using the exchange will be another question. In the NY Times article about the partnership, WPP Group sees a main benefit of […]
