Tremor Video has officially gone public, giving the company a valuation of $470 million or so based on the latest stock quote and 48.5 million shares outstanding (Amended S-1). In total, the company raised $75 million by selling 7.5 million shares for $10 a piece — below the previous target of $11 to $12 the […]
Video ad players like Tremor, YuMe, BrightRoll and Videology are quickly evolving from their ad network beginnings to serve both buyers and sellers in a unified programmatic marketplace. Adap.tv is one of those working to create a video ad marketplace with an end-to-end tech stack. The premise is to serve the demand side and the […]
Streaming video distributor Ooyala, one of the first video technology companies to take advantage of Twitter’s addition of rich media embeds into users’ feeds, is working on similar integrations for LinkedIn while expanding its publishers’ abilities to post and target live video on Facebook, the company told AdExchanger. “As you get beyond the mainstream TV […]
The moment for “convergence” between TV and online video is starting to seem more real, but video ad tech firm YuMe believes that programmatic sales methods won’t be a substantial part of the conversation around television-style branding campaigns for many years to come. “We do have a small amount of ad sales coming to us […]
Some might view the timing of Tremor Video’s May S-1 filing with the SEC in preparation for its IPO as sign of a “video ad bubble,” but Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research for Wedbush Securities, warns that a public offering generally says more about the individual company than a particular industry segment, like […]
For major publishers that built their businesses on print and glossy magazine pages, there is a clear sense that programmatic ad sales methods are becoming mainstream. What’s less clear is how to address the problems that programmatic has forced on them, namely, the struggle over developing a common metric and how to define terms like […]
A month after accepting a $50 million investment from PE firm Spectrum Equity in return for a minority stake in the company, video ad platform Extreme Reach is carefully planning a series of small acquisitions directly tied to building scale, not greater technology advancement. In an interview with AdExchanger, CEO John Roland didn’t address the […]
Beginning in Q3 of last year, American Airlines began buying connected TV ads using Rovi’s interactive guide page. The goal was to raise its profile among travelers coming from the UK. The airline won’t disclose how much it spent with Rovi’s ad network – through its agency Universal McCann – on interactive TV ads, but […]
A survey of 300 advertisers and agencies commissioned by video ad platform BrightRoll and Canada’s IAB suggests that 2013 is the “breakout year” for that country’s video marketplace. Spending on digital video is up 42% from 2012, and 41% of Canadian agencies expect to spend “half or more of their video-related ad budgets on programmatic […]
Addressable TV ads company Visible World is working with FourthWall Media to make it easier for cable operators to deploy Household Addressable TV Advertising across any of the major cable operators’ set-top boxes. FourthWall Media purchased digital TV ad management platform Navic from Microsoft in May 2012. Following that deal, Navic was folded into FourthWall’s […]
