Tag: adquick

Adquick makes list of hot startups

Adquick, the Alex Ohanian backed automated out of home sales platform made Business Insider’s list of 57 startups that will boom in 2019.  Business Insider asked two dozen VC investors to list hot startups.  Niki Pezeshki of Felicis Ventures said this about Adquick: What it does: AdQuick offers a marketplace for […]

3 Out of Home Stories to Watch in 2019

Here are three out of home stories Insider is watching in 2019. Clear Channel Outdoor Set Free. Insider expects Clear Channel Outdoor will cut ties with iHeart Media and leave bankruptcy during 2019.  The reorganization plan has been approved by creditors and is waiting final Court approval.  This will be […]

Social Media Isn’t Enough For Your Brand

By Matt O’Conner, founder and CEO of Adquick We all know that one billboard or subway ad that greeted you on your commute for months When I was expansion manager for grocery delivery service Instacart circa 2014, I ran into a problem: declining effectiveness of our social media and online […]

Google and Programmatic Out of Home

If you read one article on Google and programmatic out of home make it Google as an Outdoor Ad Player.  Google conducted some experiments distributing out of home ads in 2015 and is headed for another test now in Germany. The out of home national buying system in which every […]

Matt O’Connor on Adquick’s Serena Williams Campaign

Keep your eye on Adquick, the company which has raised seed funding from  from a group of investors including Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian to automate the out of home buying process.   Ohanian used Adquick to place an automated buy for 4 billboards that his wife Serena Williams would pass while […]

7 Reasons AdQuick is long on outdoor.

By Matthew O’Connor, founder AdQuick 1. Outdoor advertising is antifragile — the disorder in other ad channels benefits outdoor advertising. As other channels are created (online ads) and destroyed (TV) by technology, outdoor advertising remains stalwart, unblockable, and consumption/impressions are actually increasing. As cord-cutting increases and ad-supported TV consumption disappears, the opportunities in […]

If you could put a message on a billboard what would you say?

AdQuick is running a clever billboard campaign to call attention to its automated technology for booking out of home advertising.  Insider talked with Adquick founder Matt O’Conner about the campaign. What gave you the idea for the campaign? Tim Ferriss has a popular podcast with over 100M downloads during which […]

O’Connor on what Adquick’s fundraise means for out of home companies.

Yesterday Adquick announced it raised $1.1 million in seed funding to enhance its platform for automating the out of home sales process.  The company attracted a who’s who of Silicon Valley investors including investments by Initialized Capital (a fund whose executive team includes former Y-combinator Garry Tan and twitter co-founder Alexis Ohanian), […]

AdQuick attracts $1.1 million for Expedia Like Platform for Outdoor Advertising

AdQuick, a Venice, CA-based technology company, has announced it raised a $1.1 million seed round to help bring the outdoor and billboard advertising industry online. By collecting new online metrics for the effectiveness and reach of outdoor advertising, AdQuick has been able to give marketers a better understanding of their […]

Vendor Profile: AdQuick

This is the second in a series of profiles of the companies who are trying to automate the out of home sales process.  Insider counts 9 US companies that are trying to develop websites to facilitate buying and selling out of home advertising: ADstruc, AdSemble, Adquick, DoMedia, Fliphound, Kinetic, rVue, […]