Marc Dooley
Founding Partner
Marc Dooley - Prior to involvement in the digital ad network business, held executive level and leadership positions for GE, Fidelity, RCM and IKON as well as starting and heading up start up companies, Rational IT, ForkFly, Pacific Real Estate Group and Application Station. He is a former Special Ops Naval Officer and currently sits on the board of several local non-profit organizations.
Ben Eason
Founding Partner
Ben Eason is a pioneer in the local advertising space. Former CEO of Creative Loafing, the nation’s 2nd largest alternative newspaper group. Founded two digital ad networks – one for local clients within the alternative newspaper industry and another for daily newspaper clients. Specializes in innovative product design, business modeling and data.
Nico Brooks
Nico Brooks has twelve years’ experience in web development, online advertising and search engine marketing. He most recently worked as VP Strategy and Advertising for Local Matters, Inc. Before that he oversaw search engine marketing for Atlas/Microsoft. Prior to that, he managed the development of the first toolset for automated management of search marketing (SEM), Go Toast, and helped launch one of the first SEM agencies, eonMedia.
Ken Belden
Ken is a veteran of ATT Interactive with deep background in running major national and local campaigns.
Jennie Eason
Jennie Eason is a second generation newspaper person along with brother Ben. Responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure for Creative Loafing’s digital business and ad network with 12 properties and 50+ million impressions monthly. Extensive technology career with Jabil Circuits, Intuit, and University of Tampa.
Kris Skavish
Kris Skavish has focused on the needs of local business advertisers for more than ten years. As a partner in Two Octobers, she helps businesses incorporate social media and web publishing into a profitable plan for growth. She most recently worked as VP Products & Marketing at Local Matters, the leading provider of local search and advertising solutions to online media publishers. Prior to that, she was a member of the leadership teams of Jabber, Inc. and Webb Interactive.
Our Technology Partners
LotVantage
Tampa based company with innovative technology for the auto business. Pioneers in the use of feed based technologies to serve eBay, Facebook and craigslist.org platforms amongst others. LotVantage and The Networked Planet collaborate frequently on development of auto and real estate products. www.lotvantage.com
SiteWit
Tampa based company with powerful search bid management/optimization technology. Currently developing data sharing platform to utilize data gleaned from search platforms to drive banner campaigns. SiteWit and The Networked Planet are currently collaborating on long tail SEM program for auto dealers. www.sitewit.com
The TradeDesk
New York based company that is a pioneer in the ad exchange trading desk ecosystem. The Trade Desk and The Networked Planet collaborate on specialized banner inventory packages targeted at specific local geographic markets and verticals.
www.thetradedesk.com
The Tiki Wiki Community
Tiki Wiki is a global community of open source software professionals with an immense and diverse array of skill sets. From Montreal, UK, Japan, there is always a Tiki Wiki pro on call to solve any technology, ad or content issue that may arise.
www.tiki.org
In addition to our technology partners, we also have friends in high places that have been willing to help out when we have projects in need. We’ve tapped the following resources in the past and have good relationships that we can bring to bear if needed:
- TruMeasure – analytics
- ClickFuel - analytics
- West World Media – content feeds
- InterClick – campaign setup
- Collective Media – inventory sources
- Claritas/Nielsen – data/approaches
- DataLogix – data/approaches
- Proximic – data/approaches
- Excelate – data/approaches
- BriteTag – tagging infrastructure