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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 […]

Michael Walrath is the former CEO of Yahoo!’s Right Media. I recently argued that the dramatic rise in demand side services is a step toward a next generation marketing services model. Or said another way, the agency of the future is going to look very different than today’s version. If this is the case, it […]

Search retargeting technology company, Magnetic, announced the company’s launch and $1.25 million in funding which includes a roster of investors such as NYC Seed and IA Capital Partners. Read the release. Josh Shatkin-Margolis, CEO of Magnetic, discussed the new funding and the company’s strategy. Magnetic (originally Domdex) has been stealth for a while now. Why? […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP Picks Verification Partners MediaPost’s Joe Mandese notes that GroupM is “all in” when it comes to verification/validation technology as the media buying juggernaut looks to make sure their ads are running where they should be. AdSafe Media and DoubleVerify are the apparent winners […]

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google To Reveal Its Display Future From the center stage of the official Google blog, Susan Wojcicki, VP of Product Management, reviews recent developments in Google and DoubleClick ad technologies over the past two years. More importantly, Wojcicki writes, “This is the first in […]

“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Today’s column is written by Devkumar Gandhi, Founder & CEO of Nexage. “Mobile is the next big thing… and it always will be.” How many times have we laughed and cried at the humor and reality of that quip? The reality […]

Argo Digital Solutions recently released rev. 2 of its rVue platform which enables the buying and selling of digital-out-of-home media through rVue’s exchange. Argo Digital Solutions’ Jason Kates discussed the rVue 2.0 and the digital-out-of-home market. AdExchanger.com: Since you last spoke with AdExchanger.com, you’ve come out with a new rev of rVue, your digital-out-of-home exchange. […]

“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Dax Hamman, VP, Display Media, at iCrossing, a digital marketing agency. A Fortune 100 retailer client recently told me that he has never witnessed so much change in display media than he has seen in the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital Revs Rising In WPP PaidContent’s Ingrid Lunden looks at WPP Group’s Q4 2009 and full-year earnings which were reported late last week. In addition to an uptick in overall revenue, WPP divulged, “New media sales accounted for 27 percent of the advertising and […]

Matt Nichols is a Principal at Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm. AdExchanger.com: Highland Capital Partners has a rich history of venture investment in the ad tech space.  What sets it apart from other VC firms in the space? MN: Highland has been a long-time investor in the ad tech space from the early […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Aegis Announces Its DSP In an article in New Media Age, agency holding company, Aegis, announced that it’s entering the agency demand-side platform/trading desk fray and its DSP will be ready in a “few months.” Carat MD Rob Horler tells NMA, “We’re building it […]

Late last week, Acquisio announced that it was integrating DART into its paid search platform Though DART is used for paid search, display advertising may be a logical next step for a platform such as Acquisio’s.  Read the release. Martin Le Sauteur, CEO of Acquisio, discussed the implications of the DART integration. AdExchanger.com:  Why integrate […]

Click Forensics announced the “beta version of its display ad verification platform which it says “Protects Against Impression Inflation and Fraud.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to Click Forensics CEO Paul Pellman about the news. AdExchanger.com: Please define what you mean by “impression inflation.” How pervasive is this issue and how do fraudsters pull it […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! On Q1 2010 Barron’s Eric Savitz provides a bulleted list from the remarks made by Hilary Schneider, EVP of Yahoo! North America, at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference in San Francisco. According to Savitz, Schneider said that the “rebound in brand advertising the […]

Carnet Williams is CEO and Co-Founder of Sprout, a brand engagement ad platform. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start with the name – how does “Sprout” mesh with what you’re doing today? And, what problem is Sprout solving and how does this play out with your announcement about Disney? CW: The display advertising business is still incredibly young. […]

WildTangent, with an online games ad network of over 100+ million unique users according to the company, announced a “unique advertising platform, BrandBoost™, which provides brand marketers the opportunity to reward gamers with complimentary game play and virtual items in return for brand engagement.” Read the release (PDF). WildTangent’s EVP of Business Development and Marketing, […]

Jeff Zwelling is CEO and Co-Founder of Convertro, a marketing metrics attribution company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Convertro trying to solve? JZ: Marketers today are in large part “flying blind” when it comes to properly allocating their marketing dollars among their various marketing channels. I say this because most advertisers are relying upon outdated tracking […]

“the executioner” opinion expressed below is written by Natalie DiBerto, Lead, Account Services, ATOM, at Razorfish. Advertisers often feel their brand is their most valuable asset and spend lots of time, effort and money to build and maintain it. Of course an advertiser would know their audience, right? Right, but the real question is if […]

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Michael Walrath is the former CEO of Yahoo!’s Right Media. As eBay became pervasive, a slew of companies appeared with the sole purpose of helping people buy and sell goods on the giant auction site more effectively. These service businesses earned a slice of the transaction value for their efforts. Others took a different approach. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Choose Your Weapon The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Vranica takes a look at recent efforts by a combo of Publicis Groupe, Microsoft, Yahoo, CBS and Hulu that is trying to find a more effective way to advertise through online video. The answer? Let the […]

“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Dax Hamman, VP, Display Media, at iCrossing, a digital marketing agency. The average search marketer doesn’t rate display very highly. They operate in a very ROI-orientated world based on hard facts and close to 100% accountability. […]

“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Justin Merickel, VP of New Product Development and Marketing at Efficient Frontier, a search engine marketing solutions company. The other day a group of us at Efficient Frontier gathered in a conference room to discuss display […]

Publicly-traded Inuvo announced that it has raised $4.2 million in a public offering with funds to be used for ongoing expansion of its ad platform for the lead gen space.  Read the release. Rich Howe, CEO of Inuvo, discussed the new funds and the evolution of Inuvo with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: How does raising funds in […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Exec To Oversee Cadreon AdWeek’s Brian Morrisey covers the hiring of Matt Freeman by IPG’s Mediabrands unit. Freeman will “serve as CEO of Mediabrands Ventures, a new unit built to oversee 16 digital specialist marketing companies in the Mediabrands portfolio, including search firm […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. VideoEgg On Profitability First Bizo, now VideoEgg is promoting their 2009 revenues as the video ad network says that it has seen a doubling of revs in the past year to $25 million in annual revenue for 2009 – plus “7 consecutive months of […]

“Displaying Search” is a column capturing the intersection of display advertising and search marketing. Today’s column is written by Tim Ogilvie, CEO of AdBuyer.com, a demand-side optimization platform. Many search marketers want to expand into the display ad exchanges but aren’t sure where to get started. Auction-based pricing looks familiar, but there is a dizzying […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Old People Like Display Recent research by the Yahoo Labs team suggests that, sure, display positively affects purchase – but wait! There’s more… According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “The research found an approximately 5 percent increase in spending among those who had seen […]

Markus Frind is CEO of PlentyOfFish.com, an online dating site. AdExchanger.com: The background is fairly well-known about Plenty of Fish (Inc. Magazine, 2009) – free dating site that has taken off with huge traffic and interest – and all built and serviced by one guy – you. Have things changed? Hire anyone? MF: I don’t […]