Puddingmedia

Pudding Media provides intelligent clientless solution for effective advertising on any telephone.

Pudding Media is building a platform for ad-supported calling plans. Pudding Media’s comprehensive carrier advertising platform redefines how we communicate and allows any voice provider, mobile carrier and fixed-line operator to add effective advertising solutions to their calling plans. Pudding Media’s comprehensive offering includes the VoiceSense™ contextual targeting engines, PUMA™ ad-server, and the Pudding Media ad network.

Pudding Media, founded in 2006, brings targeted, relevant and timely advertising to voice operators and opens new advertising real-estate that allows placement of multi-modal advertising in voice and messaging services. By combining audio, text and display ad units with a unique contextual and behavioral targeting engine, Pudding Media enables any voice provider - mobile carrier, VoIP and Web-based voice operators - to generate new revenue stream by transforming their voice minutes into an effective advertising inventory.

Ariel Maislos (CEO):

Ariel is a CEO and Founder of Pudding Media. Before founding Pudding Media, Ariel was the co-founder and President of Passave - the technology and market leader in Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) access solutions, founded in 2001 and acquired by PMC-Sierra in 2006. Ariel is also a founder and member of the board of directors of Anobit Technologies, an Israeli startup developing flash memory technology, and serves on the board of directors of Kovio and of Nanoconduction. Ariel has filed several patents, and was an editor of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard.

Ariel is a graduate of the prestigious Talpiot program and holds a B.Sc., cum laude, from the Hebrew University in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University.