Div Bhansali is director of self-service products for Platform-A, and serves as product manager for Platform-A’s self-service display advertising solutions, BidPlace SB and LeadBack.com. Div came to Platform-A by way of AOL / Advertising.com, where he served as Product Development Director. AdExchanger.com: What is Platform-A’s BidPlace SB and tell us about BidPlace’s product pipeline? DB: […]
It’s coming. It’s the second Google “killer app” after search advertising. It’s Google’s advertising exchanges! – the exclusive location for Google Search retargeting as long as Big G can survive the privacy tidal wave. The Evolution of the Killer App A long time ago, in an ad world far, far away… For many years, Google […]
Considering the glacial migration towards premium AND remnant inventory exchanges by the online ad industry, the attributes of social media and ad exchanges have a lot in common these days aside from the fact that social media display ad inventory is unloaded through exchanges. Whether we want to admit it or not, both mediums prominent […]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday. During the on-stage interview with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, (a little) more information dribbled out on Big G’s ad exchange and display advertising strategy. From CNN: Schmidt also said the search advertising company has a good opportunity […]
Amidst the hoopla of the IAB Conference in Orlando, Florida, Yahoo! SVP of Advertising Joanne Bradford says the company plans to leverage its search technology and display ad inventory by implementing retargeting capabilities. Retargeting allows advertisers to re-target a user with an ad after they have been cookied while visiting an advertiser-specified page. In this […]
AOL Platform-A’s BidPlace SB has launched, or relaunched, depending on what you know and when you started knowing it. In our previous post on BidPlace SB, it appeared maintenance was underway or a change in strategy. Today, a commenter informs us that all is well and BidPlace SB (no one knows what SB means) is […]
During today’s conference call, A.H. Belo Corporation (AHC) which closed at a precarious $1.81 per share today and better known as owners of major regional and local newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, reported that they have integrated their newspaper sites fully onto Yahoo!’s APT platform and are realizing revenue. Unfortunately, it’s not enough […]
Yesterday, Ben Edelman gave the Right Media Exchange on his website by alleging that the Yahoo exchange carries “false and deceptive display ads.” In his compelling analysis, things look bleak as examples of dreaded “You’re a winner!”-type ads look like they are being served through RightMedia. Even CPX Interactive gets called on to the carpet […]
ContextWeb, makers of the ADSDAQ contextual advertising exchange, has published a video on its blog from an entertaining panel at the recent OMMA Ad Nets conference in New York City. Featuring participants in the ad exchange space from Yahoo!’s Right Media and APT, DoubleClick Advertising Exchange, ContextWeb/ADSDAQ and two agency reps, the panel helped outline […]
The suggestion in last week’s AdWeek article by Brian Morrissey, “Can Search’s ‘Beautiful System’ Extend to Display?,” is that all any advertising exchange or ad network needs is a self-service system which allows advertisers to easily create graphical display ads and, poof!, you’ve got nearly unlimited inventory available with search advertising-like revenue potential. Even the […]
AudienceMix, a new curation startup, aims to make it more cost effective to mix and match different audience segments using only the data brands need to execute their campaigns.
On Tuesday, digital out-of-home (DOOH) ad tech startup Place Exchange was acquired by Broadsign, another out-of-home SSP.
For the uninitiated, “Glitchmas” is our name for what’s become an annual tradition when, from between roughly late October through November, Meta’s ad platform just seems to go bonkers.
The publisher-focused DOJ v. Google ad tech antitrust trial is finished. A judge will now decide the fate of Google’s sell-side ad tech business.
Competitive tensions and ad tech drama have flared all year. And this drama has rippled out into the investor circle, as evident from a slew of recent ad tech company earnings reports.
Two sources at ad tech platforms that observe programmatic bidding patterns said they’ve seen Omnicom agencies shifting spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon DSP in Q3. The Trade Desk denies any such shift.
