Those signs in the mall aren’t ready to talk to you – yet. Today, when it comes to advertising, real-time insights into responses evoked at the neuro — or brain — level have only made their way into movies such as “Minority Report” (see clip) as Hollywood plays with the eerie potential of addressability. Nevertheless, […]
From Grapeshot CEO John Snyder’s vantage point, a culture of innovation and a willingness to partner in the UK has created new opportunity for his company. Having originally entered the ad tech space targeting the sell-side in 2008, Grapeshot has since pivoted and brought keyword targeting to European — and soon U.S. — ad buying […]
Female-leaning lifestyle content network Glam Media is the latest publisher to adopt the private exchange model, as more companies look to buttress and protect their guaranteed, direct sales with the increasing demands for more real-time offerings for advertisers. Rubicon Project will power the exchange for GlamAdapt, the publisher’s ad serving unit. The move comes at […]
Yesterday, we asked industry leaders to describe programmatic buying – and today we explore programmatic selling. Publishers are reviewing and implementing solutions that address opportunities around audience buying in digital. In an effort to help bring understanding to the sell-side version of ‘programmatic,’ AdExchanger asked several executives their thoughts on the following: “What is programmatic selling?” […]
The industry has made striking advanced in tracking the value and attributes of biddable online ad inventory, but the road ahead is long. That much was clear at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Ad Operations summit in New York. In a discussion of inventory packaging and pricing, Neal Richter, chief scientist at Rubicon Project, and Art Schram, VP of Glam […]
As the data-driven, digital ecosystem expands, so are the number of people looking to understand its intricacies. In an effort to bring transparency to the many industry terms and buzzphrases spinning ’round, AdExchanger asked several executives their thoughts on the following: “What is programmatic buying?” Click below to read their responses: Andy Cocker, COO/ Co […]
Facebook said on Friday it’s bringing back the conversion pixel to its online advertisers by the end of the month, after abandoning it in 2010. Editor’s note: Up until now, there appeared to be exceptions made for some large advertisers who were using third-party ad tracking on Facebook – likely due to the size of […]
Digital video, like mobile, remains something of a paradox: the growth continues to be absolutely phenomenal — eMarketer says it will grow 46 percent to $2.9 billion this year, with an additional 41 percent gain to $4.1 billion next year — but no one company in the space is viewed as really “crushing” everyone else. […]
Small and large publishers alike are grappling with what it means to support and distribute content in the face of increasing audience and ad dollar fragmentation. One of the more obvious solutions being considered is for the publisher to become a niche player. Offering an audience a distinct diet of sports or fashion or parenting […]
There is a common view that a big chunk of real time bidding activity consists of advertisers competing with themselves to win impression auctions. Not so, according to a new RTB report based on data gathered through Casale Media‘s sell-side Index Platform. “There are a lot of shared brands, and also a lot of retargeting,” […]
