please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article contains weasel words vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information . such statements should be clarified or removed . february 2009 this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message vantage media type private industry internet online marketing key people patrick quigley ceo rob chrone cfo revenue undisclosed operating income undisclosed number of employees 140 august 2013 website www.vantagemedia.com vantage media is an advertising technology company with headquarters in el segundo california that specializes in real time bidding for customer acquisition . contents 1 clients 2 history and growth 2.1 early history 2002 2006 2.2 expansion 2007 2012 2.3 acceleration 2013 present 3 awards and recognition 4 notes clients edit vantage media s advertisers and publishers exist mainly in three verticals education insurance home history and growth edit early history 2002 2006 edit vantage media was founded by two brothers mark and todd dipaola . based in venice the company specialized early on in performance search marketing in online education . clients included university of phoenix kaplan and other major distance learning providers . the company also became well known within the paid search space claiming to manage over 50 million keywords across the three major search engines . expansion 2007 2012 edit in march 2007 vantage media raised a series a round valued at 70m led by montgomery & co scale venture partners tudor ventures and integral capital partners . 1 the company also named a new ceo steve jillings formerly of frontbridge technologies . as noted by mr. jillings in an interview with socaltech in early 2008 the financing was intended to allow vantage to expand into new verticals outside of education including home services insurance and consumer services . 2 it also named three new board members jamie montgomery ceo of montgomery & co. and rory o driscoll managing director with scale venture partners . the company completed its first acquisition in december 2007 with its purchase of the health insurance lead generation company secure a quote saq . as part of the acquisition vantage brought on saq s two original founders jon engleking and steve curry . 3 in october 2010 vantage media announced that patrick quigley formerly a senior vice president at quinstreet would be replacing jillings as ceo of the company . the company completed its second acquisition in 2011 when it purchased leading pay per click insurance advertising firm brokersweb . 4 in 2012 vantage media launched schoolselect a clicks product on the brokersweb platform that enabled advertisers target a new segment of customers with pre defined parameters . 5 acceleration 2013 present edit in october 2013 vantage media launched a new platform called vantage media marketplaces . marketplaces is a self serve real time bidding platform for the insurance home services and education verticals . marketplaces joins together high traffic publishers with popular household name advertisers . it gives advertisers the power to pay what they want when they want and how they want for the exact consumers they want . this is achieved through giving the advertiser the power to control how they want to engage with the customer and vice versa through either clicks calls or leads . awards and recognition edit in august 2007 vantage media was ranked 31 on the 26th annual inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the u.s. 6 it was also ranked 4 in the nation for the category of top companies in advertising and marketing . a few months later in october 2007 the company topped the list of fastest growing companies in los angeles and surrounding counties as recognized by deloitte and touche usa llp . 7 it also ranked 10th nationwide in deloitte s technology fast 500 . 8 in january 2008 vantage media named a finalist for the 5th annual entrepreneurship awards 2008 by entretech a leading nonprofit association supporting high tech companies in greater los angeles . the award was offered together with pricewaterhousecoopers . 9 vantage once again made the list of fastest growing technology companies in the los angeles area in november 2008 as named by deloitte s technology fast 500 coming in at 4 . 10 in the same month it was named one of the fastest growing private companies in the los angeles area according to the los angeles business journal s 2008 fastest growing private companies ranking . vantage media was recognized as its insurance division brokersweb in 2011 as the 1 fastest growing private company in the u.s. in insurance by the inc. 500 . vantage media was honored with the same award in 2012 as well . 11 12 additionally vantage media s brokersweb division was recognized in both 2011 and 2012 as one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the u.s. 13 14 notes edit search ad firm vantage media gets 70 million round ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . interview with steve jillings vantage media ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . vantage media makes first acquisition secure a quote leader in insurance lead generation . retrieved 2013 08 20 . vantage media buys brokersweb ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . vantage media introduces schoolselect a pay per click marketplace for post secondary schools ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . the 2007 inc. 5000 list ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . vantage media tops deloitte s los angeles technology fast 50 ranking of fastest growing companies with 14 729.9 percent revenue growth over five years ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . deloitte 2007 technology fast 500 ... pdf . retrieved 2013 08 20 . pricewaterhousecoopers and entretech announce finalists for 5th annual entrepreneurship awards 2008 ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . vantage media makes top 5 on deloitte s la tech fast 500 ... . retrieved 2013 08 20 . top insurance companies on the inc. 2011 list ... . retrieved 2013 10 15 . top insurance companies on the inc. 2012 list ... . retrieved 2013 10 15 . top insurance companies on the inc. 2011 list ... . retrieved 2013 10 15 . top insurance companies on the inc. 2012 list ... . retrieved 2013 10 15 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vantage media & oldid 660105254 categories internet marketing companiescompanies based in los angeles county californiahidden categories articles with weasel words from february 2009articles needing additional references from september 2008all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 april 2015 at 19 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view