Integrated data offerings set new standard for multichannel audience insights, segmentation and media planning
LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK – Fox Audience Network (FAN), a division of News Corporation, and WPP (NASDAQ:WPPGY) announced a partnership to provide marketers with more accurate and in-depth information to increase the effectiveness of their digital marketing investments.
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The 15th Stanford Accel Symposium Hosted by MediaX Will Feature Thought Leaders From WPP, eBay, Facebook, CNET, Yahoo! and LinkedIn
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Accel Partners and Stanford’s MediaX announced their 15th symposium, which will feature unfiltered industry insights and offer the unique opportunity to learn and discuss the impacts of 2008’s dramatic events on the world of digital media and technology. The Symposium brings together the Stanford research community, high-technology business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are collectively driving developments in this rapidly changing arena.
The Accel symposium is geared towards entrepreneurs, academic and industrial researchers, investors and executives to learn first-hand how to be better informed about new trends in digital media, advertising, and next generation media-oriented business models. Attendees will explore the future of information technologies and services, and will gain critical direction and insight to take back to their companies and help drive their strategic and operational decisions.
Topics will include:
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Will collaborate in client development, technology, new products and the training of over 500 WPP professionals in Omniture technologies; WPP invests $25 million in Omniture
DAVOS, Switzerland – WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY), the world leader in communications services and Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), the leading provider of online business optimization, announced a strategic partnership that will provide clients with more-effective insights globally across both digital and traditional media channels. As part of this partnership, WPP is making a long-term $25 million investment in Omniture common stock.
The two companies will collaborate on technology development, on sharing data and information and in consulting services. The collaboration will focus on providing chief marketing officers and other marketing executives at clients, with greater consumer insights, supported by new technology. This will allow marketers to increase their revenue and profit returns from online marketing and to manage and optimize their overall marketing expenditures.
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Google and WPP team up to endow research into how online media influences consumer behaviour
NEW YORK – Google and WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY) announced today that they will jointly fund a grant program to support research into how online media influences consumer behaviour, attitudes and decision making.
WPP and Google will contribute up to $4.6 million over three years to endow the Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program, which will immediately begin reviewing grant applications.
The program will be overseen by Professor John Quelch, Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School and a non-executive Director of WPP; Dr. Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist; and Professor Glen Urban, former Dean of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This committee will work with WPP and Google to decide which grant proposals will be funded and ensure the integrity, delivery and impact of the research.
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NEW YORK – July 28, 2008 – 24/7 Real Media Inc., the leading global digital marketing company, today announced that Jonathan K. Hsu has been appointed CEO, effective immediately. After serving for nearly 12 years as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of 24/7 Real Media, David J. Moore will continue serving as Chairman while playing a larger role in strategy and business development.
Mr. Hsu, 36, previously served as 24/7 Real Media’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for its global operations, including Technology Development, Technology Operations, Corporate Development, Finance, Marketing, Product Management, Human Resources and various administrative functions. As CEO, he will focus on day-to-day operational responsibilities, enhancing 24/7’s award-winning services for advertisers and publishers, and overseeing the company’s international expansion.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and WPP’s (NASDAQ:WPPGY) GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital today announced a strategic partnership that will enable WPP agencies to buy digital display advertising across the Internet more efficiently than ever before. The partnership will initially involve a collaboration between Yahoo! and WPP’s GroupM and 24/7 Real Media.
“More and more, we see the need for agencies and media and technology companies to work together to create a new level of value,” said Mark Read, WPP’s Director of Strategy and CEO of WPP Digital. “We are very pleased to have established this partnership with Yahoo! which, enabled by our earlier acquisition of 24/7 Real Media, will turn this vision into a reality.”
As part of the agreement, WPP agencies, working through 24/7 Real Media, will develop a proprietary media trading platform that connects to Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange. WPP agencies will work with 24/7 Real Media to integrate their proprietary targeting capabilities into the platform and develop custom trading strategies, which can be seamlessly executed via the Right Media Exchange on a highly targeted and cost-effective basis.
“As marketers take new approaches to understand and engage consumers, we are thrilled to partner with a powerhouse like WPP to evolve and grow their digital practice with our next-generation solutions,” said Hilary Schneider, EVP of Global Partner Solutions for Yahoo!. “We are committed to providing the technology, insights and media expertise required to deliver the most relevant audiences across the web and to power the seamless conversation with consumers that drives greater brand awareness, consideration, intent and most importantly – action.”
WPP will also work with Yahoo! to develop a WPP marketplace, giving WPP’s agencies even greater access to inventory, visibility across the market and insight into value. WPP intends to draw inventory for the WPP marketplace from Yahoo!’s owned- and-affiliated networks and 24/7’s Global Web Alliance. The marketplace would also be open to third-party publishers.
“This partnership with Yahoo! will give our agencies and, in turn, our clients, an advantage in securing more relevant, high-quality digital media inventory. And, it will be aggregated to our bespoke needs, at the best value for our clients,” said Irwin Gotlieb, CEO of GroupM.
About WPP
WPP is a world leader in communications services. Through its operating companies, the Group provides a comprehensive range of advertising and marketing services to national, multinational and global clients. For more information, visit www.wpp.com.
GroupM is WPP’s media investment management arm – comprising leading media agencies MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia, MindShare Worldwide and MAXUS – which focuses on the intelligent application of volume and scale in trading, innovation and quality of services.
24/7 Real Media, a member of WPP, is a leading global digital marketing company which empowers advertisers and publishers to engage their target audiences with greater precision, transparency and ROI. Using its award winning ad serving, targeting, tracking and analytics platform, powerful search marketing technology and global network of specialized web sites, the company has turned the art of reaching audiences across virtually any digital medium into a measurable science.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Yahoo!’s strategic partnership with WPP’s GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital (including without limitation the statements contained in the quotations from management in this press release), as well as Yahoo!’s strategic and operational plans. Actual events or results may differ materially from those described in this press release due to a number of risks and uncertainties. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the possibility that the expected or planned implementations of the partnership described may be delayed, may not ultimately be implemented, or if implemented may not be successful; and that the anticipated benefits to Yahoo!, WPP’s GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital, marketers and consumers may not be realized. More information about potential factors that could affect Yahoo!’s business and financial results is included under the captions, “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, which are on file with the SEC and available at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Event will Include a Line-up of Speakers from Nike, Publicis Groupe, Nokia, BSkyB, Coca-Cola, Ogilvy Entertainment, HSBC, Washington Post, WPP and More
NEW YORK, NY – March 11, 2008 – The Online Publishers Association (OPA) today announced that its 3rd annual global forum will feature CEOs and top marketing and media executives from advertising agencies, publishers, and global brands. Among the topics that will be addressed at OPA ’08 London: Forum for the Future include leveraging innovation to increase value, the mobile Web, online video advertising, marketing to the social Web, and more.
Among the confirmed speakers for the event, which will take place at the Landmark Hotel in London from May 14-16, 2008, are:
