Grows Customer Base 500% in Six Months, Opens UK Office and Data Center

NEW YORK – AdMeld (www.admeld.com), the leader in ad network optimization for premium publishers,  announced it closed an $8 million round of Series B funding led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group. The funding, which AdMeld will use to accelerate its sales and product development efforts, caps a period of strong momentum for the company. Over the past six months, AdMeld’s customer base has grown five-fold and it expanded into Europe by opening a London-based office and data center.
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New Tool Enables Web Publishers to Control Network Ad Units Without Leaving Their Websites

New York, NY – March 10, 2009 – AdMeld (www.admeld.com), the leader in ad network optimization for premium publishers, today announced the release of FireMeld, the first web browser extension built exclusively for ad operations professionals. FireMeld integrates seamlessly with AdMeld’s ad network optimization technology to give publishers a new level of transparency and control over their discretionary ad inventory. The announcement was made today at the AdMonsters Publisher Forum in New Orleans.

FireMeld helps publishers identify the source of every network ad on their sites, including those ads that may cause channel conflict, are slow to load, inappropriate, or blank. Before FireMeld, diagnosing these kinds of problems required publishers to search through web page source code, a manual and painstaking process. FireMeld solves this problem by overlaying critical information about each ad directly on the publisher’s site and enabling ad ops personnel to turn off the offending ad or send an alert to AdMeld’s support team to take the appropriate action.
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