Fear not. News of gloom and doom in regards to Wall Street and the U.S. economy have not stopped ad exchange players AdMeld and ContextWeb according to this week’s issue of Crain’s New York. Judith Messina of Crain’s writes about hope beyond the rubble: “Four-year-old ContextWeb (owners of Adsdaq) says it has been nearly doubling […]
With the balls of a full-grown Brahma, MediaPost has stepped forward and declared that 2009 is the year of the ad exchange. We couldn’t agree more. MediaPost and Media6’s Joe Doran writes: “2008 saw the dominance of the exchange marketplace by RightMedia with ContextWeb’s ADSDAQ not far behind, but 2009 will see new entrants across […]
As we said back in September, the online display advertising business is sorely in need of an analytics package showing that the exposure of online display ads to the consumer can be tied directly to the performance of other campaigns including search – organic or paid. We even postulated that ComScore might be in a […]
As reported yesterday by Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, Glam Media is scaling back its expenses according to internal email (but external, too!) in the form of reduced compensation for its salaried employees ranging from 3-15%. Executives will receive up to 60% reduction in salary which might be offset by bonuses if things aren’t so bad […]
Ashu Garg’s recent post entitled “Data Liquidity” brings light to the growing data exchange model including data traders, BlueKai, and yield optimizers, AdMeld, who have absorbed millions in cash from venture firms this year. Mike On Ads is looking for rumors on what’s going on with Google’s display advertising strategy. OK, this post was from […]
Today, Yahoo!’s Right Media distributed a press release in the UK about its new transparency offering, Marketplace Select, for advertisers – undoubtedly a response to recent embarassments uncovered by UK’s New Media Age among others. According to today’s New Media Age: “[Marketplace Select] comes after Right Media has been implicated in ad misplacement issues, the […]
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 […]
New York City-based AdMeld, a platform provider of advertising exchange and network optimization tools, announced that it has signed on as its CEO Michael Barrett, former Chief Revenue Officer at Fox Interactive Media (FIM) and EVP of Sales at AOL Media Networks. In the press release announcing the new hire, Benjamin Barokas, co-founder and Chief […]
No, Federated Media has not suddenly become part of AdECN, and by association, Microsoft. Apparently, AdECN is ready to test its new ad exchange platform called the Federated System and is asking that interested ad networks come and test the new version of the advertising exchange before it reaches a wider public release in 2009 […]
The suggestion in last week’s AdWeek article by Brian Morrissey, “Can Search’s ‘Beautiful System’ Extend to Display?,” is that all any advertising exchange or ad network needs is a self-service system which allows advertisers to easily create graphical display ads and, poof!, you’ve got nearly unlimited inventory available with search advertising-like revenue potential. Even the […]
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 […]
On Tuesday, ThinkPanmure analysts Bill Morrison and Robert Coolbrith hosted an investor call with Frank Addante, CEO, The Rubicon Project. The Rubicon Project goal is to optimize ad network and ad exchange relationships for web publishers and increase their effective CPM for remnant display advertising – or “make mad cash” as Rubicon likes to say. […]
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 […]
It’s official. AOL’s long-rumored entry into the advertising exchange business is here and covered in today’s edition of MediaWeek by Mike Shields among other online news outlets. According to the release: “BidPlace will allow advertisers to submit bids for CPM, CPC and CPA advertising on AOL, on select partner sites and on Platform-A’s third-party network, […]
A favorite bugaboo with which publishers like to challenge ad exchanges and networks is latency – the amount of time it takes to serve an ad. RightMedia appears to be suffering a bad case of it according to yesterday’s VentureBeat. VB adds that there is a ton of research out there saying the loss in […]
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 […]
ClickZ media buying writer, Tessa Wegert, completes the second of her two-parter on ad exchanges this week. See #2 on ClickZ: “Getting to Know the Ad Exchanges.” Wegert highlights just four of the ad exchanges – only Google/DoubleClick, Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange (RMX), ContextWeb’s ADSDAQ and Microsoft AdECN were worthy of mention to Wegert. (GlamX, […]
In Friday’s edition of MediaPost, Turn, Inc. announced that it has opened a four-person New York office to serve as its East Coast headquarters. “Jim Clark, the company’s regional vice president for East Coast sales, will lead the branch, which is expected to add two more people by year’s end.” For the complete release on […]
Bill Morrison, Senior Analyst at ThinkPanmure and one of the few Wall Street analysts with an understanding of ad exchanges, stated in his industry report released today that advertising is entering Phase II of a media recession. Morrison explains his thinking: “First, marketers reduce spot market activity and eliminate quarterly budget flushes. Then, marketers begin […]
According to CNET‘s Stephanie Olsen, Bellevue, Washington-based, BlueKai will unveil its new ad exchange on Monday. After raising a $3.1 million investment from Redpoint Ventures in Q1 of this year, the company founded by Medio Systems and Revenue Science advertising executive Omar Tawakol is ready to tell what all the secrecy has been about these […]
In ClickZ today, writer Tessa Wegert elevates the ad exchange cause with her article entitled, “Understanding Ad Exchanges.” Ironically, the article is sponsored by ad network, Tribal Fusion. Not sure how TF felt about it – oh well. Wegert discusses one of the main differences between ad networks and exchanges: ad networks act as middlemen, […]
Joe Mullin, a reporter for IP Law & Business, has provided insight on his blog regarding a patent violation lawsuit that is making its way through the courts and affects many of the larger advertising technology companies including Yahoo (ad exchange Right Media’s owner), Google (DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange), ContextWeb (ADSDAQ), and Specific Media. The gyst […]
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 […]
According to a statement by Alibaba Group Chairman, Jack Ma, brandrepublic reported late last week that the Alibiba Group is combining Alimama and Taobao.com increase the opportunity for advertisers and publishers. Alimama is the online advertising exchange under Alibaba and Taobao.com is an e-commerce site according to the article. We cannot confirm any of this […]
It would seen that the few advertising exchange blogs that exist took a summer hiatus but yesterday, Right Media’s blog came alive (courtesy of Becca Bullack in Publisher Solutions?) with an announcement regarding a new ad network partner, Meta Network, which has plugged into the exchange. For the little publisher, the Meta Network opportunity will […]
The sky is falling in the world of online display advertising! Actually, Paid Content makes it sound like JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan awoke from a nap: “Sensing that marketers are becoming more conservative with their ad spend, Khan expects that long-tail advertisers will shift toward performance-based advertising forms.” Yawn. Looks like it’s only going […]
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 […]
The Media Kitchen, a Kirshenbaum Bond offshoot, has birthed a new ad exchange trading services company called Varick Media Management (a KB “grandchild”?). From the press release: Varick Media Management is the first digital media management company that allows media trading in real time across all online exchanges, ad networks and websites. Similar to hedge […]
Yesterday, online ad exchange contender and Redwood City, California-based, Turn Inc., announced a new round of investment totaling $15 million. Led by Focus Ventures and joined by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Trident Capital, and Shasta Venture, Turn has now received more than $37 million in equity investment since its inception – yet another signal that […]
Looking to expand its contextual offering, Yahoo!’s Right Media exchange and Lucid Media have signed an agreement that will enable publishers and advertisers on the Right Media Exchange to take advantage of contextual opportunities. This signals a change in Right Media’s previous exhortations about the importance of transparent, single site buys. Having sipped at the […]