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December 2010 - Posts

  • Atex launches universal ad server integration

    PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT                   

    Date: 15 December 2010

    For Immediate Release

    Atex launches universal ad server integration

    Reading, UK- Atex announces the release of Ad Server Integration (ASI), a new Atex Advertising module that streamlines the entire online advertising workflow for media companies. Atex ASI integrates with all major ad serving systems including Dart For Publishers (DFP), Yahoo APT, Open AdStream (OAS) and BLOOM AdGear, to give media companies one source to access customer, billing, order entry, and statistical information.

    Atex ASI synchronizes information between ad serving platforms and the Atex Advertising system.  This allows salespeople to spend more time designing effective multi-channel campaigns and less time entering orders into multiple systems. This translates into increased efficiency and greater accuracy to help increase the bottom line for publishers. Full end-to-end integration also provides the choice of workflows and powerful built-in administration tools make it easier to set up and synchronize campaign, targeting and delivery channel entities.

    Advertising salespeople will appreciate how Atex ASI allows the sharing of timely and accurate statistics with their customers. Gone are the days when ad campaign performance cannot be analyzed until after a campaign has finished. Atex ASI tracks the effectiveness of each banner ad while the campaign is running, so underperforming ads can be corrected earlier in the process, which leads to greater customer service and satisfaction.

    Having all order-entry in the same system allows media companies to bundle online campaigns with print, online and broadcast ads. With Atex ASI, media companies can become the hub of the multichannel advertising engine. Advertisers can determine what audiences they want to reach, and what media combination will be most successful.

    "Atex ASI gives publishers complete control of the ad serving process, from customer relationship management to booking and billing," said Lars Jiborn, Atex Advertising Global Product Manager. "With the ASI module in our product portfolio, we are reinforcing the Atex position as a one-stop-shop for all print and digital ad campaigns, including emerging channels like Facebook, Twitter, and mobile media platforms."

    For more information, please visit the Atex website http://www.atex.com/

    About Atex

    Atex, headquartered in the UK with offices worldwide, is a leading software company selling solutions for media-rich industries. We develop smart digital solutions that make a measurable difference and enable our 1000+ customers to optimise profitability and successfully compete in the rapidly converging media channels. As a global organisation, we are committed to helping companies build revenues and reduce costs through products that are increasingly personalised, localised, collaborative, contextually relevant, and available on demand.

    For further information, please contact

    Corporate Marketing
    Keegan Skidmore
    kskidmore@atex.com
    phone
       +1 (781) 685-3255
    fax        +1 (781) 685-3276

    Atex
    5 Burlington Woods
    Burlington
    MA 01803, USA

    Atex is a registered trademark of Atex Group Ltd. All other brands or products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

  • The Atlanta Journal Constitution and Palm Beach Post add CineSport To Provide Sports Video Programming and Services to its Web Sites

     

    Cox Media Group Inc. Newspaper Sites select CineSport to Integrate Sports Highlights, News and Custom Features

    New York, December 8, 2010 - Cox Media Group online properties including the Atlanta Journal Constitutional (www.ajc.com) and the Palm Beach Post (www.palmbeachpost.com), the most-visited local online news source in their respective markets have added CineSport, the number one broadband sports programming service.   CineSport provides sports video highlights, news, and features and custom video services to local media web sites.


    "CineSport has filled in the gap that, to date, has made video success elusive. The company brings video expertise and production skills to the party - two things sorely lacking in many organizations. The video features our reporters and therefore gets engagement rates that we've never seen before - at a cost we can afford and in a model we can sell," said Michael Lupo, Senior Director of Digital Products The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and ajc.com.

    "The Atlanta Journal Constitution and Palm Beach Post online sites are powerful regional destinations for local sports news," said CineSport CEO Gregg Winik. "We're thrilled to be working with their first rate editorial staffs to in create a complete video experience."

    CineSport is the number one online sports programming service in terms of unique visitors, providing highlights, news, features and programming services to more than 60 blue chip Web sites including the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer. The company's sports content includes local and national league-licensed sports highlights, features, and in-depth local sports reports produced in association with its media partners. CineSport provides sites with an end-to-end video programming, production, hosting and advertising sales platform. CineSport has distribution partners in 7 of the nation's top 10 DMAs as well as a presence in 15 of the nation's top 25 DMAs.  For more information about CineSport LLC, go to cinesport.com.

    Cox Media Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, is an integrated broadcasting, publishing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of Cox Reps. With $1.8 billion in revenues, the company operations include 15 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 86 radio stations, four metro newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services.  Additionally, CMG owns and operates Valpak, one of the leading direct marketing companies in North America.   For more information about Cox Media Group,

    go to www.coxmediagroup.com

    Contacts:

    CineSport PR;
    John Parnofiello
    jparnofiello@cinesport.com
    201.641.4000

    CineSport Publisher Business Development;
    Sil Scaglione
    sscaglione@cinesport.com
    201.641.4000

    Cox Media Group;
    Andy McDill
    http://community.naa.org/controlpanel/blogs/Andy.McDill@coxinc.com
    (678) 645-0439