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Welcome to NewsReady, a monthly update on everything happening here at AdReady.

In This Issue

The big news around here is the announcement of our new President and COO, Karl Siebrecht. You might remember him as the President of Atlas, part of aQuantive. We'll fill you in on Karl's move, and we also have another advertiser tip, more eye-catching (and effective) creative for the holidays, and highlights from a new Nielsen study on display advertising.

Here's everything in this month's issue:

• Karl Siebrecht: our new President and COO
• The AdReady Tip of the Month
• The AdReady Creative of the Month 
• "The Little Ad Format That Could": a new Nielsen study on display advertising

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Ad veteran Karl Siebrecht joins AdReady as President and COO

 

If you know the online advertising industry, then you know Karl Siebrecht--and you know why we're all pretty excited around here.

Karl was the guy who built aQuantive's Atlas from the ground up, before its acquisition by Microsoft. aQuantive was one of the largest advertising technology companies in the world at that time, and the acquisition--for $6 billion in cash--is still the largest purchase in Microsoft history. That's also roughly twice what Google paid for DoubleClick around the same time.

Karl was later introduced to AdReady by one of our advisory board members, David Rosenblatt--who also happens to be the former CEO of DoubleClick (and Karl's biggest competitor while at Atlas!).

You can check out a great Q&A with Karl from TechFlash, in which he talks about why he joined AdReady, and his reaction after our CEO Aaron Finn gave him a demo: "I was just floored by what they had built because that was what we had always talked about as the next generation of where we wanted to take (aQuantive's) Atlas."

Read the TechFlash Q&A.
Check out the press release.

Display advertising: "The Little Ad Format That Could"

A new Nielsen study released just this week revealed that display may be more effective for retailers than search advertising. That's right: more effective, hands down, than search.

The backdrop for this story is that advertisers are moving away from click-through rates as a metric for success, and everyone from Google to Yahoo is stepping up their display efforts. Also, out of the top 50 search terms, only three weren't branded--and they were pornographic. Ken Cassar, VP-industry insights at Nielsen's Online division, said:

"When you take a step back and look at that together -- the fact that such a high percentage of people go directly to retail sites and even those that search generally have a pretty clear intent as to which website they'd like to go to -- it makes a compelling argument that brand and past experiences [with a marketer] matter an awful lot and will be far more significant determinants of success than any customer acquisition strategy that they're going to engage in."

Read the rest of the article.

Until Next Time

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