
Adknowledge is the fifth largest advertiser marketplace in the world: behind Google, Yahoo, MSN and Facebook. It dominates several key online marketing disciplines, including Virtual Currency, Social Display and Email Marketing. The Adknowledge social platform is the largest in Europe, delivering some 15 billion ads each month across Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster & Twitter apps.
Adknowledge has been recognised by Red Herring and AlwaysOn Media as a Top 100 Private Companies award winner.

An entrepreneur with 9 years experience in online advertising, John Cole has founded and run an SEO start-up, an online ad network and an online publishing business. After the sale of the Mediarun ad network to Adknowledge Inc in 2007, he now specialises in the Social Networking and Social Applications space for Adknowledge in the UK and Europe.
Cole has been a panellist at ADTECH, Internet World and has been invited back to Media Playground for a second year. He was previously an officer in the British armed forces for eight years.