Disrupting the Ad-Technology Space
Moat CEO and Co-Founder Jonah Goodhart discusses digital advertising with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Televisions' "Money Moves."
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A Democratic View of Metrics: Moat On Measuring Brand Advertising Success
Exchanges create transactional efficiency. When Jonah Goodhart and his brother funded the launch of Right Media, the first ad exchange, that was their sole intent...
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Moat Named to OnMedia Top 100 Private Companies List for 2013
This year's 100 top companies are transforming the digital media paradigm into a vital new distribution pathway for forward-thinking, technology-minded product developers and their consumers.
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Moat Partners with Martini Media in Private Premium Exchange
Jonah Goodhart, CEO and founder of Moat, said, "We're excited to support the rich media exchange because it offers the promise of bridging the gap between brand buying and the existing programmatic world...If we, as an industry, can deliver branded experiences in a more scalable way, everyone wins."
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Moat Named IAB Service Excellence Award Winner
Jonah Goodhart, Co-Founder & CEO, Moat, and Karin Eanes, Technical Director, Pictela, for their hard work and dedication on the Rising Stars Ad Unit Research Study showing...
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Undertone Partners with Moat to Guarantee Viewability
To help provide the viewable metrics, Undertone is partnering with measurement companies DoubleVerify and Moat with the goal of providing a range of methodologies from which to collect the non-standardized data...
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Jonah Goodhart's MOAT: Building the Digital Dashboard to Growing Brands Online
A series of profiles of Thought Leaders changing the business landscape: Jonah Goodhart, CEO and Co-Founder, MOAT...
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Glam Media and Moat Establish Industry-Leading Content Analytics That Go beyond Page Views and Shares
Glam Media, Inc., a leading vertical social media company, today announced it has partnered with Moat Inc., a SaaS analytics company focused on transforming brand advertising online, in establishing industry-leading metrics and benchmarks for measuring content engagement and effectiveness...
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13 Promising East Coast tech startups to watch in 2013
Moat provides a free search engine for display advertising and an ad-focused analytics service for brand marketers. The startup enters interesting territory with its analytics offering, providing insight for when ads are in view and how potential customers interact with them... READ MORE
The Digital Display Battle
Moat is a digital analytics and intelligence company that works most prominently with brand advertisers. Our newest analysis tool - Moat Pro - lets us search for ads (including political ones) by advertiser or publisher. It yields metrics like "share of voice" and traffic paths, as well as publisher information... READ MORE
IAB Report on Ad Engagement Serves as Industry Catalyst for Defining Core Digital Engagement Metrics
The report was informed and guided by input from the following companies: Brand Keys, Break.com, BrightRoll, BUZZMEDIA, comScore, CondeNast, DraftFCB, Facebook, Forbes, Google, Hulu, Martini, Mediacom, Microsoft, Moat... READ MORE
The Challenge of Analytics
Early in the 2012 presidential cycle, Jonah Goodhart had already fielded calls from both the Obama and Romney campaigns. They wanted to know what Moat - the online analytics company Goodhart founded - could offer as far as tracking when and where the opponent was placing online ads... READ MORE
Rising Stars: Demonstrating Results at the 2012 IAB Ad Ops Summit
Moat co-founder Jonah Goodhart talks research on IAB Rising Stars Display Ad Units. WATCH VIDEO
Consumer Reports Says Do Not Track, But Tracks Anyway
For instance, according to ad monitoring firm Moat.com, display ads from Consumer Reports promoting its subscription service were spotted online this month on sites including About.com and ThinkComputers.org. They may have been aimed at users who... READ MORE
Romney Didn't Crack Top 100 Display Ad List Until October
To add some context to how the digital get-out-the-vote-effort played out in the display space, Moat, an ad search and analytics company, provided Adweek with some fresh data from its Top 100 advertiser ranking. The results, which are ranked by total ad volume... READ MORE
Obama Dominating Web Down the Stretch
Moat's search index data, which compares digital display impressions across tens of thousands of websites throughout September and October, suggests that while the Romney campaign has worked to increase its share of voice in October... READ MORE
Obama Outslugs Romney in Digital
According to research by the analytics company Moat, the Obama campaign had a 93.3% share of voice in terms of display-impression volume in September across the top 20,000 publishers, compared with the Romney campaign's 6.7%... READ MORE
Why Engagement and Interaction Trump the Click
The Universal Interaction Time (UIT) measures the average amount of time users spent on the ad. It's no surprise that when you look at these measures compared to static banners, rich media always wins. According to Moat, a SaaS-based company focused on building and measuring rich media ads...
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Research on IAB Rising Stars Display Ad Units Shows Big Lift Across Core Interactive Metrics
Less than eight months after they were made a part of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Standard Ad Unit Portfolio, the Rising Stars display ad units yield significantly higher interactive consumer engagement in online campaigns, according to proprietary research from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Moat... READ MORE
To View or Not to View?
I'm not suggesting that viewabilty measures aren't important, or that publishers shouldn't deploy them. Quite the opposite, I think that every publisher should be using a tool like MOAT... READ MORE
What Happens When Your Audience Doesn't Click?
As for in-banner interactivity, looking at solutions such as Moat to help understand what the user is engaging with in/around the display unit is helpful... READ MORE
Signal Chicago: Attention Matters
Moat co-founder Jonah Goodhart talks about the why attention matters at Signal Chicago.
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Maxifier Partners with Moat to Support Adoption of Branding Metrics
Maxifier, the global leader in inventory revenue management technology, today announced a new alliance with brand intelligence and analytics company Moat... READ MORE
25 AND UNDER: Meet The Rising Stars In New York Tech
Rahman is the president of Moat, a company Betabeat called New York's next big ad tech firm. It was founded by the former Right Media guys, Noah and Jonah Goodhart... READ MORE
Online presence of Obama & Romney (ads galore)
And over at Moat.com, there's a nifty compilation of online ads. Some of the ads actually become animated when scrolling over them, which is a cool feature of their website. Most of Obama's ads involve animation, whereas Romney's generally do not. Also, Moat.com found many more Obama ads... READ MORE
Four Bold Moneymaking Schemes That Taught Young Founders The Ropes
Rahman, a 25 year-old who now serves as President for Moat, an online advertising analytics company... READ MORE
Securing the Future of New York's Media Industry
Whether it's been ad servers like DoubleClick, behavioral targeting engines like Tacoda or social media platforms like Buddy Media, New York has been the undisputed king of ad tech. And now hot ad tech startups like Simulmedia, Moat, and Mediabrix are rising up... READ MORE
How Blank Display Ads Managed to Tot Up Some Impressive Numbers
The skunk works included an astrophysicist at online-analytics firm Moat, an ad-platform wizard from buying and optimization company Accordant Media, and a measurement maven from the Advertising Research Foundation. We equipped every ad with Moat's tag... READ MORE
Obama outspends Romney on online ads
The images in the 145 Obama online ads that surface on Moat.com stand in stark contrast to Romney's. Most feature first lady Michelle Obama or the president's entire family. There's even one that features their dog... READ MORE
Moat Partners With 24/7 Media With Hopes of Shaking Up Analytics
The startup will now be able to provide analytics to over 9,000 companies globally. As the confusing digital advertising landscape changes with each new day, Moat, a brand intelligence and analytics company, is trying to bring some clarity... READ MORE
24/7 Media and Moat Partner to Evolve Ad Engagement Metrics and Viewable Impressions
Today, 24/7 Media, Inc., WPP's marketing technology company, and Moat Inc., a brand intelligence and analytics company, announced a partnership to offer advertisers and publishers brand-focused metrics to help them measure the success of an ad campaign... READ MORE
Meet Moat: The Ad Tech Company With a 'Magic' Demo and a $12M Series B
A few months ago over coffee, a source was bemoaning the lack of big exits (and billion dollar ideas) to emerge from the New York tech scene. Who's headed in the right direction? we asked. The source pointed us to an ad-tech startup called Moat. "When you get the demo, it's like magic!"... READ MORE
The Daily Start-Up: Mayfield Jumps Moat To Lead $12M Round
Analytics company Moat aims to help online advertising evolve beyond counting clicks, and has secured $12 million led by Mayfield Fund... READ MORE
Moat Raises $12M Series B led by Mayfield Fund
Moat Inc., a SaaS company focused on transforming brand advertising online, is announcing a $12 million Series B financing led by Silicon Valley's Mayfield Fund, with continuing participation from existing investors. Mayfield's Tim Chang will join the Board... READ MORE
Romney, Obama Camps Use Ads to Target Voters
Moat Ad Search is featured on PBS NewsHour TV program. WATCH VIDEO
Attention Economy
Moat co-founder Jonah Goodhart talks about the Attention Economy at Procter & Gamble.
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Signal P&G Bringing Touch of Silicon Valley To Cincinnati
P&G will showcase ideas from some of the most well-known and respected digital thought leaders and share a few ideas of our own at the Signal P&G event on March 8... READ MORE
AOL Annoucnes Beta Launch of Pictela Enterprise to Help Scale Premium Brand Advertising on the Web
"Today, AOL is also announcing a partnership with Moat, a brand intelligence and analytics company. ""Moat is becoming a leader in measuring the effectiveness of online brand..." READ MORE
AOL Develops Self-Serve Platform to Manufacture Premium Ads
Partnering with brand intelligence and analytics company Moat on the platform's analytics offering, users of the platform will be able to measure clicks, impressions, exposure time... READ MORE
IAB Releases New Standard Ad Unit Portfolio
To measure the new units' ability to deliver at scale for brand advertisers...[Moat] looked at attentiveness, emotive response and brand lift... READ MORE
Announcing the 2012 OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies
AlwaysOn is especially excited to announce this year's OnMedia 100-the top emerging companies creating new business opportunities in the world of media, advertising... READ MORE
Moat's Jonah Goodhart Continues His War on the Click
Jonah Goodhart is a New York based entrepreneur who has spent the last 13 years building and investing in digital media companies. Goodhart was a founding investor... READ MORE
Tech's High Rollers, Media Machers Compare Notes at CES Opening
Noah and Jonah Goodhart - two entrepreneurs who were already big winners once in the advertising space with Right Media - are at CES... READ MORE
5 Ad Tech Startups to Watch
What makes a viable startup? For the last few years, the question seems not to have been posed by venture capitalists who have flooded the industry with superficially conceived... READ MORE
Adweek.com's Top 10 Technology Stories of 2011
#2 Killing the Click - What was once digital advertising's dirty little secret is now its big, ugly problem. Online ad performance figures are dismal: less than 1 percent... READ MORE
The Investment Community Reviews Advertising - A Look Back, A Look Ahead
Last year we predicted that the industry would begin focusing on the importance of creative. There are signs that this is occurring - we conducted a study and found that... READ MORE
Digital's Interactive Addiction Hurts Brand Efforts
The online advertising business desperately wants to break its dependency on the click-through, which is nearly universally derided as a largely useless brand metric... READ MORE
Trends: Digital Advertising, The six most transformative in online marketing
A vast array of technologies and trends are transforming online marketing. Because it's hard to wade through the changes, we've whittled them down to six that are significant... READ MORE
Confessions of an Ad Tech Man
Jonah Goodhart, a founding investor in Right Media, believes that the 90's, at least as they pertain to the development of digital media advertising, were one very expensive mistake... READ MORE
Marketers Warm Up to the No Clicks Campaign
Have you clicked on a display ad today? The odds are you haven't since, "99.8% of users who view an average display ad don't click." But if you spent any time at all on the internet... READ MORE
Can Moat Crack Ad-Attention Tracking?
The click is under assault. Long the success metric of choice in online advertising, the simple measurement is under fire from all sides as a serious impediment to the Web's... READ MORE
Killing the Click Moat measures engagement by tracking 'mouse hovering'
What was once digital advertising's dirty little secret is now its big, ugly problem. Online ad performance figures are dismal: less than 1 percent of Web surfers click on display... READ MORE
Moat charts mouse movements to measure ad effectiveness
New York-based startup Moat is offering a new measure of digital ad effectiveness based mouse positioning as a sign of reader attention, instead of click-throughs. Moat measures... READ MORE
Venture Capital Dispatch
Also in today's VentureWire: Moat Inc. has a fresh $1.5 million round of Series A funding to build a brand analytics tool that measures the attention given to display ads... READ MORE
The Smart Money Pours $1.5 Million Into Moat
The smart money is pouring into Moat, the ad tech startup founded by former Right Media CEO Mike Walrath and brothers Jonah and Noah Goodhart. Ron Conway's SV Angel led a $1.5... READ MORE
Tracking Mouse Movements Instead of Clicks
Every digital marketer is familiar with heat maps. Traditionally, publishers and advertisers have used heat-map technology to determine how consumers view a web page: where they look... READ MORE
MOAT: A Search Engine For Ads, And So Much More
If you work in online advertising, until recently there hasn't been a very good way to find out which ads are running across the Internet. Search engines like Google index the underlying... READ MORE
It's Time to Search for Ads Says Moat Co-CEOs Jonah Goodhart and Noah Goodhart
Jonah Goodhart and Noah Goodhart are the Co-CEO's of Moat, a creative company. JONAH GOODHART: The company was founded by myself and Noah Goodhart. We brought... READ MORE