Seattle-based AdReady has announced this morning that it has raised $10 million in venture funding led by Boston-based Bain Capital Ventures. Silicon Valley-based Khosla Ventures and current investor Madrona Venture Group also participated in the round.

The idea of AdReady is simple: create basic, interactive ads using the pre-made templates, customize them to match your business or service and then buy campaigns on Google and Right Media using the AdReady tools. AdReady only takes a cut of the actual ad spend; use of the tool is at no charge. Agencies can white-label the service to use with their clients.

Last month AdReady added Hulu CEO Jason Kilar to its board.

Thomas Crampton interviews Ogilvy China’s Kaiser Kuo on the current state of web development in China in the video above. It’s interesting in its entirity as they discuss the growing wave of Web 2.0 development in China, but of particular note is Kuo’s description of Chinese P2P file network Blin.cn.
Kuo claims that Blin.cn is 50 […]Source:Techcrunch
Display ads have generally been the purview of larger brand name companies who can afford the cost of creating highly visual or dynamic ads. However, Aaron Finn and his team at AdReady want to bring banner advertising to even the little guys.
AdReady is an application for managing a display advertising campaign, from creating the ads […]