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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Agencies: Data Visualization Still 'More Flash Than Substance'
An array of visualization products have emerged to help marketers turn “big data” into smart data. This week has brought announcements around visualization from the likes of Tag Man, Placeable and SumAll. Meanwhile, plenty of other data and analytics vendors — including Tealium, Adobe, IBM, Acxiom and Domo – are investing in this area. But […]
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For Adaptly, Pressing 'Go' On Facebook And Twitter APIs Is Not The Same Thing
Adaptly is one of a handful of ad-tech companies serving as a preferred partner to both Facebook and Twitter, but it doesn’t see its induction into the latter’s API program as an extension. Although Twitter’s strategy has similarities to what Facebook did last year — including a retargeting exchange — Adaptly CEO Nikhil Sethi noted […]
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CPXi Acquires AdReady To Match Real-Time Bidding And Creative Services
Interactive ad holding company CPXi is acquiring self-serve ad platform and dynamic creative vendor AdReady to augment its three other units as it works to close the loop around the demand side and the sell side. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. The purchase comes more than a year after two began preliminary […]
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TubeMogul Formalizes IPG Mediabrands Partnership Across UK, Asia-Pacific
Video demand side platform TubeMogul and IPG Mediabrands have expanded their work together in the UK, Australia and Japan as the two seek to build up their programmatic video operations in those countries. Their agreement also aims to deliver more seamless campaign tools to globally-minded US marketers. TubeMogul’s non-exclusive partnership with Mediabrands, which has largely […]
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Agencies, Ad-Tech Vendors And Avoiding Appearance Of Conflict
Notice how the cover-up of scandal is often worse than the original misdeed? The same is true when it comes to the appearance of a conflict of interest – if it looks like a conflict, you’ve got a conflict. That’s ultimately what led Starcom MediaVest Group CEO Laura Desmond to resign from the board of […]
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Online Video Can Wait. Harris And Placemedia Want To Crack Programmatic TV First
As other video ad firms lay the groundwork for programmatic online video, Harris Broadcast is working with Placemedia to administer exchange-based sales for TV spots first. Then, maybe they’ll take on online video. After nearly a year of collaboration, Placemedia, which has deals with broadcast stations, cable operators and satellite providers covering 50 million households, […]
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Jeffries: Video Ad Network Model Has Early Advantages, Coming Challenges
Video is a big part of the programmatic ad discussion taking place at New York’s Advertising Week. A recent look at the landscape by Jeffries & Co. finds that early players like Tremor and YuMe have certain advantages in the short term. But the time is nearing when the majority of video advertising will be […]
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Mayer On Yahoo's Future: It's All About Personalization And Partnerships
Maybe it’s the turbulence that has surrounded Yahoo for the last several years, or maybe it’s reflective of CEO Marissa Mayer’s general worldview, but when asked about the competitive landscape by Charlie Rose during a Q&A at the IAB Mixx conference, she said the portal is more of a potential partner than a challenger to […]
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Microsoft Plots Programmatic Global Expansion, Promotes 'Direct Programmatic' Portal Agreement
Microsoft is hoping to gain more traction with higher priced, direct sales inventory on its network by striking an agreement with its fellow portals, AOL and Yahoo, to support technical specifications for automating the buying process around reserved ad sales. In other words, Microsoft is joining the push toward “premium programmatic” that AOL trumpeted Monday […]
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AOL's Programmatic Upfront: A Pitch To Automate Direct Sales
AOL finally answered the question “What is a programmatic upfront?” by saying it would put its money where its mouth is: starting in 2014, it will make its reserved, guaranteed inventory available through its automated platforms for the first time. The portal lined up an array of advertising partners, noting that five of the six […]