“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Tom Shields is CEO of Yieldex, a publisher yield optimization company. Let me be the first to introduce you to the hot new TLA (three-letter acronym) for 2010: RTS. 2009 brought you RTB done by DSPs. On the other side, we’ve […]
Rogier van den Heuvel is VP, Worldwide Sales, of messaging service and Amsterdam-based, eBuddy. AdExchanger.com: What’s the startup culture like in Europe – even Amsterdam, specifically? Are there hotspots? (i.e. like Silicon Valley in California) Is creating interest with venture capital firms a challenge? There is a thriving start up culture in Europe including tech, […]
Click Forensics announced the “beta version of its display ad verification platform which it says “Protects Against Impression Inflation and Fraud.” Read the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to Click Forensics CEO Paul Pellman about the news. AdExchanger.com: Please define what you mean by “impression inflation.” How pervasive is this issue and how do fraudsters pull it […]
Yahoo! says that in AdExchanger.com’s news round-up earlier today, there was a clear misinterpretation of the comment by Yahoo! VP Ramsey McGrory at yesterday’s IAB meeting regarding concerns publishers should have about RTB. McGrory tells AdExchanger.com that his point “was that the lost bid data that comes when an auction is broadcast to bidders and […]
Hooked Media Group announced in a release that it has launched Yoo-Me, “a premium gaming technology platform” that it hopes will create a compelling, publisher monetization solution given the influence of social media today. Prita Uppal, CEO of Hooked Media Group, discussed the announcement with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: What is broken with the publishing model which […]
Demand-side platform CPM Advisors announced that it would be leveraging the technology infrastructure of publisher optimizer, Mediageeks. Read the release. AdExchanger.com discussed the announcement with CPM Advisors CEO Rob Leathern and MediaGeeks GM Jacob LeWinter. AdExchanger.com: It’s interesting that a demand-side tech company is partnering with a publisher-side technology company – and beyond just buying […]
Aiming to solve the needs of the supply-side, and cutting the existing yield optimizers out of the game, Google says that it has “re-written DFP” (Susan Wojcicki’s words at this week’s IAB event) and believes it is offering more reasons than ever to park large publisher inventory with… warning acronym change… was: DART For Publishers… […]
Today, PubMatic announced that it is offering a next rev in its publisher-side yield optimization platform which notably includes “guaranteed inventory yield management” and possibly puts it into competition with Yieldex, which has been working the direct sales optimization side for publishers for a while now. See the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev […]
AdExchanger.com discussed TagMan‘s new funding announcement (See release.) and recent momentum with Jonathan Baron, co-founder and general manager of Tagman. AdExchanger.com: What attributes did you look for in a funding partner? How have you found the funding climate? JB: We sought partners that had an understanding of the online ad marketplace such that they could […]
The Rubicon Project released it’s Online Advertising Market Report for Q4 2009 and said that CPMs were showing considerable strength as “CPMs across the Rubicon 20 Index have risen by an average of 34 percent vs. Q3 2009.” Read the release. And, download the report here (sign-up required). Rubicon Project VP of Marketing, Kara Weber, […]
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.
With its latest funding, Agentio plans to expand its team and to establish creator marketing as part of every advertiser’s media plan.
Google on Wednesday announced the full availability of its new agentic AI tools, called Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor.
“We just constantly hear how complex it is right now,” Kelly MacLean, Amazon Ads VP of engineering, science and product, tells AdExchanger. “So that’s really where we we’ve anchored a lot on hearing their feedback, [and] figuring out how we can drive even more simplicity.”
