Today, aiMatch announced that photo-sharing site Photobucket has selected aiMatch’s ad serving platform to deliver ads to its more than 45 million monthly unique visitors. According to a press release, aiMatch will help “Photobucket manage sales performance, analyze the data that impacts revenue and take ‘intelligent’ action based on that data.” Read the release. aiMatch […]
Lotame announced on Wednesday that it has launched a self-serve audience data management platform (DMP) called “Crowd Control (which) enables web publishers to create custom audiences, to directly license anonymous audience data for use in interest-based advertising, and to protect the privacy of their site visitors.” Also, Lotame announced that American Greetings Interactive will use […]
In a press release, publisher-side yield optimizer AdMeld announced that it has hired Time Inc. executive Jason Kelly as its Chief Media Officer. Read more. Kelly discussed the new role and his view on the digital advertising space. AdExchanger.com: How has your previous experience – such as your executive role at Time Inc. – prepared you […]
Walker Jacobs was recently promoted to executive vice president of Turner/ SI Digital Ad Sales. Read the release. Jacobs, who was previously svp of Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital division, has been, and remains, an outspoken critic on the use of ad networks by large publishers. AdExchanger.com: Looking over the past 12 months, what has […]
Julie Schoenfeld is CEO of Perfect Market, a publisher-side technology company. AdExchanger.com: With “Perfect Market,” the allusion to financial markets is hard to ignore. Is there a connection? JS: Perfect Market is kind of a “good luck” domain for Idealab. It was the original name and domain for two of Idealab’s success stories. In addition […]
Tom Chavez is Founder of Krux Digital. AdExchanger.com: How is this platform addressing data leakage (see Chavez recent opinion piece) unlike other publisher-side platforms? TC: We believe that publishers need to solve the data protection problem before they plunge into data management and monetization. Obviously data leakage and data collection have been getting a lot […]
Recently, ValueClick bought financial information site, Investopedia, from Forbes for $42 million in cash. Read the release. The Jordan, Edmiston Group’s (JEGI) Co-President Tolman Geffs, which helped facilitate Forbes’ sale of Investopedia to ValueClick, discussed the trandsacation as well as overall mergers and acquisitions trends in the media space. AdExchanger.com: Can you discuss a little […]
VisualDNA announced a new product it just launched with the Mirror Newspaper Group (see it) in the UK. The company calls it a “new publisher product that effectively provides them with a form of DSP (demand-side platform) for their entire audience.” CEO Alex Willcock of Imagini Holdings Limited, an advertising technology company and makers of […]
Tom Chavez is an entrepreneur, technologist, musician, and family man residing in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of Rapt Inc., and following the acquisition of Rapt by Microsoft, he served as General Manager of Microsoft Advertising’s Online Publisher Business Group. I have received an overwhelming amount of feedback from my last missive. I […]
Amir Nathoo is CEO of WebMynd, an advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come for WebMynd? My co-founder, James, and I were intrigued by the power that browser apps on Firefox provided, and wanted to see how we could use them to make navigation simpler. We built several little apps and users loved […]
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.
