Acceptable Ads Exchange names Scott Schwanbeck CEO

Industry Vet to Helm Leading Ad Blocking Recovery Exchange

Scott SchwanbeckNew York, NY, – June 30, 2020— Acceptable Ads Exchange (AAX), a leading ad exchange dedicated to recovering revenue lost to ad blockers, has named industry veteran, Scott Schwanbeck, chief executive officer. A proven leader with over two decades of media, tech and digital experience, Schwanbeck has an expansive history of building high-performance teams, driving forward-thinking strategies and growing revenue for publishers. 

“Media companies continue to be faced with the dual challenge of seeking fair value for their content, while ensuring a positive, less intrusive ad experience for their readers,” Schwanbeck said. “AAX has quickly established itself as a leader in this complex challenge and I’m honored to steer the company through the next phases of its evolution.”

Working directly with publishers of all sizes, AAX generates significant ad revenue from content, while still providing users – who choose to run an ad blocker – a cleaner ad experience.

Schwanbeck joins AAX from Yieldmo where, as executive vice president of business development, he played an integral role in transforming the company from a fledgling start up to a recognized industry leader. During his tenure, the company went from pre-revenue to a large, very profitable organization and counted many of the world’s largest and most prominent media companies as partners. Schwanbeck’s additional experience spans a diverse set of companies from early-stage start-ups to large corporations including Vizu (acquired by Nielsen), drop.io (acquired by Facebook) and IGN Entertainment (acquired by News Corp).

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About AAX

The Acceptable Ads Exchange (AAX) allows publishers, advertisers and users to benefit from a healthy, respectful and human ad ecosystem. We’re a programmatic ad exchange dedicated to serving a highly coveted audience of more than 200 million consumers that have consented to see the light, respectful ads designated as “acceptable” by the Acceptable Ads Committee’s criteria. The AAX  mission is to foster a new type of marketplace—an exchange capable of reaching ad-blocking users seeking an alternative ad experience— for consumers, while offering direct-to-publisher deals and working with premium demand-side sources.


Tim Cronin, formerly of PubMatic, DoubleClick, joins AAX

New York City, March 4th 2019: The Acceptable Ads Exchange (AAX), a digital ad exchange that opens exclusive access to millions of ad-filtering users for publishers and advertisers, is proud to announce the addition of Tim Cronin as Vice President of Sales.

Tim joins the team with the aim of strengthening AAX’s presence in the United States and its client engagement, bringing with him more than 20 years experience in online, mobile, social, and video advertising. Recently, Tim worked as SVP, Sales at Mojiva, where he was a founding member; after PubMatic acquired Mojiva, he served as a Senior Director . Tim also worked at DoubleClick.

“North America, being the market with the highest media ad spending, is naturally one of our top target markets, and we have grand plans for it. To spearhead those plans, we wanted to bring on someone with deep roots in ad tech, who could drive our sales and account management,” said Frederick Leuschner, AAX’s CEO.

About AAX

The Acceptable Ads Exchange (AAX) allows publishers, advertisers and users to benefit from a healthy, respectful and human ecosystem. It is a programmatic marketplace that acts as a bridge between the needs of the publisher, the marketer and the wishes of the user, and provides publishers and advertisers a unique access to a segment of young, highly educated and high-income visitors.

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For more information, please contact:

Amir MILLO GROSS, Business Operations Manager
amir@www.aax.media