David Kaplan is a former Video/Publishing Platforms editor for AdExchanger.com. A New York City-based journalist for over 20 years, Kaplan has covered media, advertising and marketing. A former staff reporter at paidContent, Adweek and MediaPost, he has also written for Advertising Age, Broadcasting & Cable, Crain’s New York Business, The New York Post, Newsday and the Boston Globe; he has also covered financial issues for the Bond Buyer and Worth magazine.
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Video Player Brightcove Buys Unicorn Media To Build A Bigger Cloud
Given the advanced stage of cloud technology and the race for digital video ad dollars, constantly retooling an existing cloud system, or building a new one from scratch, can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. That’s the reasoning behind this week’s $49 million acquisition of digital ad insertion provider Unicorn Media by online video player and […]
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IDG Focuses On Digital Ad Properties While Building Out Reach
Within IDG’s $3.55 billion global revenue across all businesses last year, its share of US online revenues remained stable at 66% in fiscal year 2013 from 2012. By contrast, the company’s US print share of revenues slipped to 19% last fiscal year, from 21%. Consequently, IDG intends to concentrate on its Web strength even more […]
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Paying Rapt Attention To Online Video’s True Power
Most of the advancements that have fueled online video’s recent growth over the last few years tend to revolve around the technical aspects of targeting and placement. But Rapt Media CEO and co-founder Erika Trautman finds placing online video’s value in “sight, sound and motion” overlooks the true power of new media. “What surprised us […]
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ComScore Seeks To Crack Publisher Viewability Resistance
While publishers generally concede that brand advertisers will pay higher CPMs for “in-view” ads, there’s less acceptance around the different tools, like Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings or comScore’s Validated Campaign Ratings (vCE), designed to determine viewability. The big problem is that the viewability solutions have so far tended to focus on the advertisers, leaving publishers […]
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Dentsu Continues Programmatic Catch-up, Unveils Its Own Trading Desk
Years after the major ad holding companies like Publicis, IPG, WPP, Havas and others created trading desks for accessing ad exchanges, Japan’s largest advertising company, Dentsu, finally launched on Dec. 19 its own real-time bidding (RTB) platform, called Dentsu Audience Network. Read the release. Dentsu has been active in developing a programmatic business since 2010, […]
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Viewability Is Just A Beginning, Not An End
Last summer, analysts and industry players predicted viewability would become the standard metric for display branding performance. But for Jonah Goodhart, CEO of analytics services provider Moat, viewability is a starting point to determine the value of a display placement instead of the tool that will kill the clickthrough. “Two-thirds of all the world’s ad […]
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French RTB Provider AlephD Counts On AppNexus To Help With Expansion
Over the past few months, French real-time bidding (RTB) services provider AlephD has expanded work with AppNexus with particular focus on French publishers. Maxime Agostini, AlephD’s CEO, said that despite greater adoption of programmatic methods by advertisers there aren’t many services aimed at the sell side. Although AlephD is already integrated with AppNexus, Agostini said […]
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Publishers' Programmatic Plea: Where's The Transparency?
As major publishers adopt programmatic methods to boost efficiency and cost-savings, one thing keeps them from putting more valuable inventory up for bid: The perceived lack of transparency in pricing. Consequently, an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) task force made up of publishers has been working on guidelines to clear up the fees and better define […]
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Yahoo Strikes DSP Deals For Guaranteed Inventory – But Right Media's Value Remains A Mystery
Yahoo is making an unspecified portion of its reserved inventory available to demand-side platforms (DSPs), months after display rivals like AOL pledged to put its guaranteed placements on exchanges. Read the release. When Yahoo acquired ad exchange pioneer Right Media six years ago for $680 million, the portal was seen as taking steps far beyond […]
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Print And Digital Share The Same Ad Problems: Making 'Targeted Scale' Work
Dan Lagani, the print ad sales veteran who joined lifestyle content network Glam Media as its chief revenue officer and president late last month (read the release), doesn’t feel there is a print vs. digital way of doing business anymore. “Digital has reached maturity, though it’s still early,” he said. “So I don’t even categorize […]
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