Platforms

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 […]

In an October 13 article, Mike Shields from MediaWeek provides his opinion on Yahoo!, the new APT platform and future direction for the struggling, Web media monolith. Shields reveals that, to-date, no agencies have signed up for the platform and “only the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle newspapers” – presumably on […]

Amid the Advertising Week hubbub in New York City, Yahoo! has announced the launch of its new ad platform, APT, largely dependent on the Right Media Exchange acquired last year by Yahoo!. With Yahoo!’s Newspaper Consortium desperate for revenues, they will be the first to try out the new platform followed by advertisers, agencies and […]

It’s official. AOL’s long-rumored entry into the advertising exchange business is here and covered in today’s edition of MediaWeek by Mike Shields among other online news outlets. According to the release: “BidPlace will allow advertisers to submit bids for CPM, CPC and CPA advertising on AOL, on select partner sites and on Platform-A’s third-party network, […]

Roger Williams, Director of International Marketing at Right Media, was able to place a nice article in UK’s Net Imperative on online advertising exchanges entitled, “Platforms for Change“. Within the advertiser-focused article are the basics to the Right Media Exchange story including providing tools to advertisers that allow efficient targeting through an open auction. Williams […]

It appears the advertising world is starting to get physical about the pending integration of Google and Yahoo advertising – a deal brokered amidst Yahoo!’s flirtation with Microsoft regarding acquisition of the struggling Sunnyvale company. As Erica Morphy details in her E-Commerce Times article, traditional advertisers, agencies and its lobbying arm, the Association of National […]

It has been two weeks since Valleywag offered up the news that former Right Media Exchange CEO, Michael Walrath, was loading up his truck and moving to arid Sunnyvale, California, where – rumor has it – he’ll be getting a promotion. Certainly his genius in getting Yahoo! to buy the Right Media advertising exchange for […]

Yesterday, Yahoo!’s Right Media announced a new partnership with mega-agency and holding company, WPP Group, that will bring the Right Media Exchange to many of WPP’s top clients. Whether the clients end up using the exchange will be another question. In the NY Times article about the partnership, WPP Group sees a main benefit of […]

Feeling it couldn’t be left out of the advertising exchange party, Microsoft, acquired tiny AdECN for what some suggest is in the $50-75 million range. In the wake of previous advertising exchange platform purchases such as Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick which included its exchange and Yahoo!’s $700 million purchase of RightMedia and RMX, […]

It’s happy times on the Right Media Exchange as employees and shareholders took in another $680 million from Yahoo! to be fully-acquired by the struggling web search/entertainment/whatever monolith. With Google’s purchase of DoubleClick and its developing AdX Exchange, Yahoo! felt it needed to answer and it did. Will Microsoft now step up to the plate? […]