What a way to start a Monday!  Our founder & CEO Daniel Yomtobian has been selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® award. This is high praise as past winners include Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google.  After a few in-depth interviews and deliberation among the judges finalists will be announced on May 14th.  Upon learning the news of being selected, Daniel simply clapped his hands together  and said “lets do this!” Now that’s the entrepreneurial spirit!

Details of the release are below.

Advertise.com Founder & CEO Daniel Yomtobian Named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Semifinalist in the Greater Los Angeles Region

Finalists will be named in May, with awards being presented at a special gala on June 19, 2012 at The Beverly Hilton.

Advertise.com today announced that CEO Daniel Yomtobian is a semifinalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Award in the Greater Los Angeles region. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Finalists will be named in May, with awards being presented at a special gala on June 19, 2012 at The Beverly Hilton. (more…)

It’s hard to believe that our first ad:tech was over 6 years ago, but there we were, an incredible team at a powerful show.  As ad:tech veterans, we observed a couple interesting changes in the conversations at the show:

1. We had some very involved conversations with current and future clients about their ad goals for 2012 and it became apparent that online advertisers aren’t just looking for traffic anymore. They are in search of innovative and competitive ways to grow their business and stay ahead of their competition. The traditional traffic platforms aren’t cutting it anymore and alternative traffic sources are on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Of course, this is music to our ears.

2. With the boom of alternative computing devices there are more opportunities than ever to for publishers to monetize users and traffic. Our publisher department had non-stop meetings with mobile publishers, emailers, content sites and domainers all in search of ways to provide better user experiences while monetizing their traffic and data.

As always, we took plenty of pictures of the team hard at work. Check out the gallery below. 

As for our next show, we’ll be exhibiting at Affiliate Summit East at the New York Hilton, table#94 and booth#329. We hope to speak with you before then, but if you are attending let’s be sure to meet!

-The Advertise.com Team