Archive for January, 2008

TV Week: SpotXchange Lands Investors

January 31, 2008

TV Week, January 31, 2008 4:30 PM, By Daisy Whitney
Online video ad network SpotXchange said it received its first round of angel funding.
The company did not disclose the amount, but it said investors include Alex Bogusky, chief creative officer, Crispin Porter + Bogusky; Laurence Chang, former portfolio manager, Janus Worldwide Fund; Tim Hudner, former chief [...]

iMedia Connection: 7 tips for smart video buys

January 23, 2008

iMedia Connection, January 23, 2008, By Julie Ruvolo
Article Excerpt
Put sales people to work for you
Most sales folks in the digital space would be ecstatic to get clear direction from an agency. Instead what they see is a lot of bizarre inconsistency. One agency says a salesperson’s service is not of significance until it hits [...]

Alex Bogusky Interview

January 18, 2008

What is the word in the ad world? This month SpotXchange CEO Mike Shehan talks to Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s Chief Creative Officer Alex Bogusky about the growth of his company and the past and future of marketing.
Michael Shehan: How did Crispin Porter + Bogusky grow so large, so quickly?
Alex Bogusky: I don’t think it [...]

Ad Servers and Online Video Ads

January 18, 2008

ClickZ ran an interesting article on the “state of online video ads” from the vantage point of ad serving firms like Atlas and DoubleClick. While SpotXchange is much more than an ad serving firm-we are, in fact, a full service video network that provides a marketplace for dynamically matching advertisers with available publisher inventory, in [...]

Ask SpotXchange

January 18, 2008

We’ve been getting questions from readers on basic education of the online video advertising space. SpotXchange Insight is a perfect forum to answer those questions.
What is the difference between an overlay ad unit and an in stream ad unit?
Overlay-A rich media banner ad that appears at the bottom of the video player, over the video [...]

The end of advertising as we know it

January 4, 2008

The recently released “The end of advertising as we know it” executive brief written by IBM’s Global Business Services addresses the current paradigm shift that is taking place within the advertising industry. With television audience erosion, fragmentation and measurement shortcomings the advertising executives in the study recognize that consumers are in control of how they [...]