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MediaMath Gets Akamai’s Ads; AdRoll’s Retargeting Velocity

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MediaMath Gets Akamai’s Ads Akamai has sold its ad business, which began with its Acerno purchase in 2008, to MediaMath. The deal provides access to Akamai’s pixel free technology as the release explains, “MediaMath’s clients will gain access to...

AppNexus Secures $75 Million After Long Road To Funding

No AppNexus insiders will take money off the table as the RTB pure play soaks up a new $75 million investment led by Technology Crossover Ventures. Instead, funds from the series D round will be pumped into the company in the form of new features, marketplace quality improvements, and employee...

SmartWool Moves Toward a Mobile-First Social Strategy

SmartWool, a company that sells hiking and outdoor clothing made from merino wool, knows its customers and fans like the outdoors and being on the go. It made sense, then, for the brand to focus on mobile social outreach — and it has seen promising results. “We felt mobile was...

Can That Startup Stand Alone, Or Is It Just A Feature?

“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. One of the most common conversations I have on a regular basis about startups, especially in the ad technology...

X+1?s CRM ‘Touchpoints’; Real-Time Bidding Reviewed

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Touchpoint-ilism With a new platform update, [x+1] is letting customers layer their CRM data over a slew of discrete channels (Facebook, display, email, apps). The key phrase here is “paid/owned integration.” From the press release: “A new data key...

How Orbitz Balances Data Science With ‘Judgment Calls’

There’s no dichotomy between “intuition” and “big data” at work in online marketing. But it does feel that way sometimes. For Orbitz, interestingly, judgment calls often come in to play as the company evaluates algorithms from dueling ad platforms that are competing for its budget. “It’s incredibly important to be...

Product Manager David Baser on Facebook’s Attribution Roadmap

Facebook is already an important player in the attribution space, partly by virtue of its ability to do multi-device impression analysis, linking ads served on mobile and desktop to conversions that happen off-site and increasingly, offline. It has no need for cookies, the stock-in-trade of most attribution platforms, since all...