ContextWeb’s ADSDAQ, Microsoft, Leo Burnett Battle it Out for 2009 Ad:tech Awards - See You in San Francisco
Posted by Jay Sears on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 @ 04:11 PM
ContextWeb, Inc.’s ADSDAQ Buying Desk is a finalist in the 2009 ad:tech awards. The ADSDAQ Buying Desk is a self service web site where anyone - typically small and medium sized advertisers - can buy the same advertising inventory we sell to the world’s largest marketers such as Bank of America, Best Buy and Marriott. View our new online demo or if you are an advertiser request a live demo by one of our ADSDAQ Advisors.
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The other finalists in the category “Websites — Best B2B Marketing Web Site” are CityMax: CityMax Website Builder; Leo Burnett Chicago: Your Playground; SarkissianMason: Newairplane.com; and Microsoft: Epson Experts for Better Business. Pretty good company if you ask us.
All of the winners will be featured, for the first time, on the awards microsite on the evening of Monday, April 20th. The winners will also be recognized in the ad:tech San Francisco Event Guide and in onsite signage.
Don’t forget - ContextWeb, Inc. and its ADSDAQ Exchange will be at adTech & ADSPACE San Francisco on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. We’ll be speaking on the State of Contextual Advertising, one of the kick-off panels for the ADSPACE conference.
Check out the list of judges that picked the finalists and will choose the winners this week for the 2009 ad:tech awards:
Ron Belanger
Vice President Agency Relations, Yahoo! Search Marketing
Sean Cheyney
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, AccuQuote
Mel Clements
Advertising and Digital Manager, Basketball, Nike
Steve Hall
Editor/Publisher, Adrants
Chris Holdren
SVP of Starwood Preferred Guest & Global Web Services, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Jean-Philippe Maheu
Chief Digital Officer, Ogilvy North America
Daina Middleton
Senior Vice President Sunao, Moxie Interactive
Rick Murray
President, Edelman Digital
Shelly Palmer
Managing Director, Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC
Jeffrey Pruitt
EVP, Corporate Partnerships, iCrossing Inc.
Russell Scott
CEO, Creative Director, Jetset Studios
Tina Sharkey
Chairman and Worldwide President, Babycenter.com
Bettina Sherick
Vice President, International Digital Marketing, Twentieth Century Fox
Mark Silva
Managing Director, Real Branding
Shane Steele
Consultant, Shane Steele Consulting
Kate Thorp
CEO, Real Girls Media Network
Adam Turinas
EVP, Client Engagement and Managing Director, Organic, Inc.
Paul Woolmington
Managing Partner, Naked
Maria Teresa Arnal
General Manager, Prodigy MSN
Kamal Kaur
Sr. Director, Display Networks, Yahoo! Network/BlueLithum
Anisha Ahluwalia
Associate Director, Denuo
Gene Keenan
VP of Mobile Services, Isobar
Julian Aldridge
President, Ammo Marketing and Freestyle Interactive
Kalie Kimball-Malone
Creative Director, Garrigan Lyman Group
Colleen Aranda
Manager, Interactive Advertising, Continental Airlines
Anton Konikoff
CEO, Acronym Media
Dan Ballister
Chief Operating Officer, TRAFFIQ
Tim Kopp
Chief Marketing Officer, ExactTarget
Joel Bary
CEO, LatinMedios.com
Felipe Korzenny, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication, Florida State Univ. & Senior Strategy Advisor to Captura Group
Greg Baumann
Editor, Television Week & WebVideoReport.com
Zdenek C. Kratky
Director of Marketing, Philips Consumer Lifestyle North America
Michael Bellavia
CEO, Animax Entertainment
Jordan Kretchmer
Jordan Berg
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Questus
Tom Kunau
Interactive Design Director, Carmichael Lynch
David Berkowitz
Director of Emerging Media & Client Strategy, 360i
Gaston Legorburu
Chief Creative Officer, Sapient
Seth Berman
Director, Marketing Strategy & Operations, Blue Shield of California
Jonathon Linner
CEO, Limbo, Inc.
Vivek Bhargava
CEO, Communicate 2
Erik Lundberg
President, AddRev
Peter Blacker
Executive Vice President, Digital Media & Emerging Business, Telemundo Network Group
Susan MacDermid
Senior VP, Strategy, Real Branding
Mikael Blido
Digital Marketing Director, iris new york
Dean Macri
President & CEO, The Cielo Group, Inc.
David Blum
Executive Director, Interactive Services, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners Company
Sandor Marik
Director of Marketing, CondéNet
Joel Book
Director, eMarketing Education, ExactTarget
Rick Marroquin
Chief Marketing Officer, Batanga, Inc.
Conor Brady
Vice President, Creative, Organic, Inc.
Grant McDougall
Executive Vice President, Carat
Scott Briskman
Executive Creative Director, Agency.com San Francisco
Pooja Midha
VP / Business Development, MTV Networks Digital
Jason Bucky
VP, Creative, Real Branding
Bryan Moffett
Director, Digital Sponsorship Operations, National Public Media, LLC
Cindy Burns
Program Manager, frog design
Patrick Moorhead
Director of Emerging Media, Razorfish
David Carrel
Vice-President/Group Director, Digitas
Alicia Morga
CEO, Consorte Media, Inc.
Kate Clough
Director of Digital Communications, MRM Worldwide
Bill Muller
Chief Marketing Officer, iProspect
Jarvis Coffin
CEO, Burst Media Corp.
Adam Naide
Senior Director, CNN Worldwide
Barbara Coll
CEO,
WebMama.com Inc.
Mark Naples
Managing Partner, WIT Strategy
Geoffrey Darby
Principal,
The Darby Group
Huan Nghiem
Creative Director, Carat- San Francisco
Roxanne Darling
Partner, Bare Feet Studios, LLC
Jim Nichols
Senior Partner, Strategist, Catalyst SF
Jaime del Valle Sansierra
Regional Manager, Advertising and New Media, GM Latin America, Africa, & Middle East
Mark Ogne
VP Marketing, Acxiom digital marketing service
Kate Donaho
Group Creative Director, T3
Catherine Paschkewitz
Director, Demand Generation, HP
John Durham
CEO and Managing Partner, Catalyst SF
Marcelo Perrone
Digital Innovative Director, Project Management Director, GIOVANNI+DRAFTFCB
Eric Eller
Senior VP Marketing, Millennial Media
Dan Perry
SEO Manager, Cars.com
Joseph Epstein
VP, Worldwide Digital Marketing, Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution
Andrew Peters
Director of User Experience, UE Architect, Inc.
Benjamin Ezrick
Director of Sales Operation and Development, Katalyst Films
Craig Peters
President, CKPcreative
Peter Figueredo
CEO, NETexponent
Max Petrucci
CEO, Garage Interactive
Leslie Forde
SVP Strategic Alliances, Communispace
Mohan Renganathan
VP, Group Digital Director, Starcom MediaVest Group
Ron Friedman
CEO, Promotional Technologies Int’l Corp.
Mark Renshaw
EVP, Digital Practice Lead, Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide
Natasha Funk
Director of Research, Terra Networks USA
Jason Ring
Creative Director, AKQA
Rob Garner
Stategy Director, iCrossing
Anthony Rodio
Chief Operating Officer, support.com
Michele Gibson
Director, Web Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Ignacio Roizman
Managing Partner, Jumba Exchange
Bob Gilbreath
Chief Marketing Strategist, Bridge Worldwide
Josh Rose
SVP, Creative Director, Digital, Deutsch
Adam Good
Executive Director, Digital Innovation, Clemenger Group
Marcelo Sant’ Iago, General Manager, MidiaClick Performance Marketing
Tom Goosmann
Chief Creative Officer, True North Inc.
Larry Schott
Director, Business Development, Zugara
Skip Graham
President, Giant Head, LLC
Angel Sepulveda
Executive Director, Programming, Terra Networks USA
Matt Griswold
Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Soap
Tim Siedell
Creative Director/Principal, Fusebox Brand Communications
Kendall Guillemette
Director, Vigilanteweb LLC
Peter Storck
President, Points North Group
Larry Harris
CEO, Ansible
Dan Swartz
Founder & Executive Editor, MidMarketer
Jeff Hasen
Chief Marketing Officer, HipCricket
Cory Treffiletti
President, Managing Partner, Catalyst:SF
Yosi Heber
President, Oxford Hill Partners, LLC
Jordan Warren
President, San Francisco, Agency.com
R.J. Hilgers
SVP Managing Director, razorfish
Kevin Wassong
President, Minyanville Publishing &Multimedia, LLC
Mark Hillman
Associate Creative Director, Resource Interactive
Amanda G. Watlington
Ph.D., A.P.R., Owner, Searching for Profit
Pam M. Horan
President, Online Publishers Association
Elliot Yasnovsky
Director of Hosted Services, Adobe Inc.
Brad Jakeman
EVP/Chief Creative Officer, Activision
Frances Yu
Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting
John Jakubowski
Group Creative Director, AKQA
-- Jay Sears

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