More than any other streaming video joint venture, Hulu has never had to work too hard to resemble the TV experience – thanks to its backers, NBC Universal, News Corp., ABC, it is the primary spot for primetime viewing on the web. But as YouTube continues to build its own more “professional” channel spaces and […]
While it’s not surprising that a Forrester report (sign-up required) commissioned by video ad platform SpotXchange suggests that the market for real time bidding for video inventory is starting to take off, the conclusion of the analysts is hardly cheerleading. The report identifies three things hindering the growth of online video RTB, starting with the […]
The “Newfronts” online advertising sales period that to be kicked off by Digitas and its outside partners next month is going to have some added competition apart from the traditional TV upfront marketplace. Adap.tv, the digital video sales platform, has formed its own Upfront Marketplace as it seeks to automate the entire process for securing […]
Mark Trefgarne is Co-Founder and CEO of LiveRail, a video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start with a little background on you. How did your consultancy lead to video advertising technology? MT: We started LiveRail about four years ago, which came out of a consulting company that I was running in London. The founding team […]
For years, the television world has pivoted on the use of a reach and frequency metric known as the Gross Rating Point, a.k.a. the GRP (Wikipedia), for the buying of advertising time. As TRAFFIQ’s Eric Picard points out in a 2009 iMedia Connection article, “This currency enables immense substitutability of inventory, meaning that there is […]
Content delivery network Limelight Networks announced last week its new Limelight REACH Interactive platform which the company claims “helps publishers, agencies and advertisers create ‘tappable’ pre-roll and post-roll in-stream video ads, which open coordinated microsites.” Read more. Jonathan Cobb, GM and CTO of Limelight’s Mobility and Monetization Group, discussed the announcement and its implications. AdExchanger.com: […]
Yesterday, online ad technology firm MediaMind was acquired by DG (formerly DG Fastchannel) for $414 million. Read more coverage. We asked a selection of ad industry participants their views on the following question: “What are the implications of yesterday’s acquisition of Mediamind by DG?” Click below or scroll down for more: Atul Patel, CEO, OneScreen […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Levinsohn Speaks On Yahoo! All Things D’s Kara Swisher interviews Yahoo! Americas EVP Ross Levinsohn, who says that the company gets a raw deal. On the content/media side, Levinsohn said that Yahoo! needed to develop a voice and move beyond its aggregation days. On […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Booming In EU The results of the latest IAB Europe survey show that in 2010, display continues to grow. From the release: “With an average growth rate of 21.3%, Display overtook Search advertising as the fastest growing online ad format in Europe. Search, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Undertone Sees Video Ramp In another private company earnings release of sorts, ad network Undertone says that its business is booming and offers up the following in a press release: “A year-over-year increase in video advertising revenue of more than 400 percent; a video […]
Prebid’s future is up for grabs as the open-source project grows apart from the IAB Tech Lab, the industry’s self-appointed standards authority.
Last week, after nearly six years of development and delays, Google officially retired its Privacy Sandbox.
Which means it’s time for a memorial service.
AWS RTB Fabric offers ad tech platforms more streamlined integrations with ecosystem and infrastructure partners, allegedly lower latency compared to the public internet and discounts on data transfers.
In a livestreamed presentation to investors on Tuesday, co-CEO Greg Peters shared that Netflix had its “best ad sales quarter ever” in Q3, and more than doubled its upfront commitments for this year.
Google’s aborted cookie crackdown ends with a quiet CMA sign-off and a sweeping phaseout of Privacy Sandbox technologies, from the Topics API to PAAPI.
TTD shared new details about OpenAds features that let publishers see for themselves whether it’s running a fair auction. But tension between TTD and Prebid hung over the event.
