SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING
Entravision | August 03, 2022
Entravision (NYSE: EVC), a leading global advertising solutions, media and technology company, today announced the promotion of Karina Cerda to Executive Vice President of Global Marketing. In this newly created position, Ms. Cerda will spearhead a company-wide effort to bring Entravision’s collective global marketing strategies together under a single unified umbrella.
“We are very excited to announce Karina’s appointment to this important, new role,” said Walter Ulloa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
“We are very excited to announce Karina’s appointment to this important, new role,” said Walter Ulloa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Karina is a natural leader and has been a great asset to Entravision for more than eight years. Karina’s appointment is part of our Company’s long-term growth strategy as we continue to expand our operations and marketing footprint. Today, Entravision serves more than 7,000 clients in over 35 countries worldwide. Karina will be an important part of our expansion effort, working closely with each of our global businesses on branding, messaging, sales and training to promote efforts that will ultimately benefit all of Entravision’s stakeholders.”
Ms. Cerda has a nearly three-decade track record in the media marketing industry spanning both Agency and Broadcast Ad Sales. She began her career in 1991 at Dailey & Associates, followed by several account management positions at Noble & Asociados, Casanova Pendrill (now Casanova//McCann), and Publicis Sanchez & Levitan, all full-service advertising agencies with diverse portfolios of national clients and that specialize in reaching Hispanic consumers.
After Publicis, Ms. Cerda honed her broadcast sales experience at Univision Communications and Radio Centro, where she was General Sales Manager of Exitos. Ms. Cerda ultimately joined Entravision in 2014 and has since held the roles of Vice President of Marketing & Sales Development, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Sales Development and, most recently, Executive Vice President of Marketing & Sales Development for U.S. Media.
“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to take on this newly expanded role at Entravision,” said Ms. Cerda. “We are experiencing exciting growth here at Entravision, and I am proud to be part of the team that is so diligently working to expand our global image, digital footprint and leadership position within our target markets. I look forward to building upon our stellar and passionate global marketing organization by further connecting our unique portfolio of brands to our customers, not just locally, but also to each of our new international divisions. Together we will take our brand, marketing and client services to even greater heights.”
About Entravision
Entravision is a leading global advertising solutions, media and technology company connecting brands to consumers. Our dynamic portfolio includes digital, television and audio offerings. Digital, our largest revenue segment, is comprised of four business units: our digital sales representation business; Smadex, our programmatic ad purchasing platform; our branding and mobile performance solutions business; and our digital audio business. Through our digital sales representation business, we connect global media companies such as Meta, Twitter, TikTok and Spotify with advertisers in primarily emerging growth markets worldwide. Smadex is our mobile-first demand side platform, enabling advertisers to execute performance campaigns using machine learning. We also offer a branding and mobile performance solutions business, which provides managed services to advertisers looking to connect with global consumers, primarily on mobile devices, and our digital audio business provides digital audio advertising solutions for advertisers in the Americas. In addition to digital, Entravision has 49 television stations and is the largest affiliate group of the Univision and UniMás television networks. Entravision also manages 46 primarily Spanish-language radio stations that feature nationally recognized, Emmy award-winning talent. Shares of Entravision Class A Common Stock trade on The New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol: EVC. Learn more about all of our media, marketing and technology offerings at entravision.com or connect with us on LinkedIn and Facebook.
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AD TECH AND MARTECH
VlionMobi, GeoEdge | September 05, 2022
VlionMobi, which empowers global e-commerce and gaming companies to achieve their marketing goals, has announced its partnership with GeoEdge, an ad security verification solution provider.
GeoEdge works with the world’s leading media, advertising platforms, ad exchanges, and ad alliances to monitor and protect their ads through automated ad verification. The partnership will help to enhance VlionMobi’s self-developed DPA advertising platform, which utilises advertising and content recommendations, to support advertisers in converting users safely.
As Chemy Chen, VlionMobi’s technical director of ad experience shared, “We were dealing with frequent auto-redirects, illegal ads, and malicious ads. These bad ads greatly impacted user experience and put VlionMobi’s high-quality partnerships at risk.”
As Chemy Chen, VlionMobi’s technical director of ad experience shared, “We were dealing with frequent auto-redirects, illegal ads, and malicious ads. These bad ads greatly impacted user experience and put VlionMobi’s high-quality partnerships at risk.”
To combat this, VlionMobi adopted GeoEdge's real-time protection ad quality solution and AdWatch to provide no-compromise control and transparency. This allowed VlionMobi to successfully weed out any pre- and post-click ad quality violations, with GeoEdge’s solution also ensuring that ad content is effectively displayed, regardless of developers’ advertising classification.
“Thanks to GeoEdge’s efficient monitoring and review solutions, the time we spend on solving ad quality issues has been greatly reduced. We’ve been able to automatically detect, warn, and block harmful ads,” Chen added.
“We are happy to collaborate with VlionMobi and support their efforts in creating clean and engaging programmatic revenue streams for their partners. Maintaining a high level of engaging user experience is an ongoing challenge for all players in the advertising ecosystem. GeoEdge has been constantly investing in cutting edge content management and security solutions for web and in-app, and we are proud to integrate our state-of-the-art services to VlionMobi’s advertising platform,” said Eran Navon, regional director, APAC at GeoEdge.
Working with GeoEdge indicates VlionMobi’s steadfast commitment to cracking down on inferior and fraudulent advertising. With GeoEdge by its side, VlionMobi looks forward to continued co-operation with leading technology companies, increasing investment in ad quality control, ensuring a reliable, safe advertising market, and taking part in the healthy development of the industry.
About VlionMobi
VlionMobi provides marketing empowerment for customers in the global e-commerce and gaming industries and is a practitioner in the field of global mobile remarketing. Through the VlionMobi DSP programmatic platform, advertisers can access more than 240,000 apps worldwide and engage with up to 2 million users per second. The platform also integrates with 70 SSPs (Supply Side Platforms), ad exchanges and private marketplaces to provide clients with a one-stop advertising solution.
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AD NETWORKS
Viamedia | July 14, 2022
Viamedia, the leading fully-integrated independent cross-media local advertising company, today announced Madeline Kissel has been promoted to vice president of affiliate relations and business development. In her new role, Kissel is responsible for managing the process of identifying, pitching, negotiating and executing sales representation agreements with linear, digital and managed services partners within the cable and digital ad sales industries.
“Madeline impressed us as soon as she started working at Viamedia and has grown into a trusted leader, insightful manager, and proven sales and business executive. Her skill and experience are perfectly suited to lead Viamedia’s expanding network of affiliate partnerships,” said David Solomon, CEO of Viamedia.
“Madeline impressed us as soon as she started working at Viamedia and has grown into a trusted leader, insightful manager, and proven sales and business executive. Her skill and experience are perfectly suited to lead Viamedia’s expanding network of affiliate partnerships,” said David Solomon, CEO of Viamedia. “There is no doubt she will bring value and innovation to even more distributors in this expanded role that recognizes her many successes.”
Kissel joined Viamedia in 2012 as a marketing and research intern, where she contributed to the company’s marketing team, focusing on sales support, internal communication, promotions, and event planning. In 2018, she moved into Business Development division and oversaw Viamedia’s partnerships with multichannel video programming distributors, managing over 60 sales partnerships across over 70 cities. Kissel will continue to collaborate with every Viamedia department to analyze new partnerships and provide world-class support to current affiliate partners.
Kissel is based in Viamedia’s Lexington, Kentucky operational headquarters and reports directly to the company’s President and CEO, David Solomon. Kissel was named to Cablefax’s “Overachievers Under 30” in 2015 and has a BA in Integrated Strategic Communications from the University of Kentucky.
About Viamedia
Viamedia places over 1MM ads a day in more than 130 zones in 28 states across 60+ markets nationwide, aggregating all forms of TV audiences and providing a single point of sale to more than 6,000 local, regional, and national advertisers. It provides a comprehensive portfolio of audience and impression-based local video cross-media advertising solutions that bridge the gap between linear TV and digital programmatic advertising.
Viamedia’s patented, cloud based QTTTM platform utilizes a proprietary technology stack and is designed to enable ad campaigns to be more efficient and easier to execute, by utilizing rich data to deliver targeted, dynamic ads to consumers via linear television.
Viamedia also offers a complimentary suite of impression-based digital products for streaming, mobile, display, email, search, social and more. Headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, the company’s success is built on its people, processes and proprietary software.
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