On Wednesday, video monetization platforms Connatix and JW Player announced plans to merge into a new entity called JWP Connatix. The deal was first rumored in July.
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An unusual dilemma has programmatic vendors and ad tech platforms worried about a flurry of potential patent infringement suits.
Outbrain is trying to shed its chumbox rep by bringing social media-style vertical video to mobile publishers on the open web.
Billups, a managed services agency that specializes in OOH, is making its attention measurement solution and a related analytics dashboard available for general use.
Just three weeks after it began, the Google ad tech antitrust trial in Virginia is over. The court will now take a nearly two-month break before reconvening for closing arguments right before Thanksgiving.
Publishers are initiating more and more auctions – but doesn’t mean DSPs are listening to more bids, according to Chris Kane.
During certain periods this year, advertisers blocked more than 40% of The Washington Post’s inventory over brand safety concerns.
Context vs. Cookies With Dotdash Meredith’s D/Cipher Lead
Dotdash Meredith’s Lindsay Van Kirk says the cookie-based buying tools she helped develop in her early career at AppNexus placed too much value on unreliable third-party audiences. But contextual tools like DDM’s D/Cipher, which she now oversees, can build a better ad ecosystem for buyers and sellers.
The US v. Google Witnesses Have Spoken – Now What?
It’s a wrap on the US v. Google antitrust case, at least for now. Then, behind the IP infringement claim on the OpenRTB spec that ruffled feathers at the IAB Tech Lab.
