But beyond making his parents proud, participating as a witness in a historical antitrust trial was gratifying for another reason, says Kevel CEO James Avery. “I never thought I’d have a chance to really say my piece like this.”
In today’s newsletter: Under DMA’s gatekeeper rules, Apple reinstates Epic Games’ developer account one day after it suspended it; brands are building first-party-data-based walled gardens to weather cookie deprecation; and Kevel raises $23 million.
Kevel launched a new set of APIs on Thursday, called Relay, for publishers and their ad tech partners to build their own programmatic stacks. Kevel’s overarching vision is to provide an AWS cloud-like infrastructure to support online advertising. The purpose of Relay, specifically, is to help publishers get more innovative with their programmatic monetization strategy.
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Shuptrine, VP of marketing for Kevel. Email ad monetization will forever change when Apple officially releases iOS 15 and Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) this fall. This new feature will apparently send all emails opened […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Shuptrine, vice president of marketing at Adzerk. In May Google announced major 2021 changes to its search ranking algorithm, including the addition of core web vitals, which are new metrics related to page […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. Recommendation widgets – those spammy “Around the Web” ads – may provide short-term revenue, but they likely come at the expense of long-term company growth and brand power. I won’t […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. Online advertising owes its rapid growth to JavaScript tags. Finally, without serious code changes, publishers could copy and paste JavaScript and make money from ads […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. As ad blockers become more prevalent, it’s important to understand how they actually work and what they mean to publishers, ad tech companies and users. […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. The rise of ad blocking is a symptom of a real problem: Ads suck. To slow the adoption of ad blocking and make the Internet […]
When Ellen Pao stepped down from her post as CEO of Reddit on Friday – ceding the spot to Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman – it left Reddit’s monetization situation murkier than ever. In a question and answer session on Reddit’s popular AMA (Ask Me Anything) section, Huffman wrote, “Reddit has a lot of cash. Monetization […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. Fraud is the ad industry’s not-so-secret problem. It impacts publishers just as much as advertisers. Advertisers have finite budgets to spend filling placements each year, […]
Can BitTorrent – often regarded as the de facto file sharing protocol for online content piracy –achieve the legitimacy to attract brand advertisers? While that remains to be seen, the company took a step toward improving its ad offering when it unveiled a partnership with Adzerk on Wednesday. Adzerk, which works with publications like social […]
There’s a reason most publishers turn to partners like Outbrain or Taboola for content recommendation: simplicity. But conservative news publisher Newsmax Media saw the benefits of creating a content recommendation network in-house: more revenue, more control over the content and its partners and more flexibility to make the feeds look truly native. The main Newsmax […]
Free ad serving might be bad business for all but the biggest players in ad tech. AdZerk, an ad-selling platform for publishers, sent a notice to its free and self-service customers that it’s shutting down that part of the business to focus on its enterprise clients. The company will complete its exit Aug. 31. The […]
James Avery is CEO of Adzerk, a publisher-side ad technology company. AdExchanger.com: Why focus on publisher ad serving as opposed to advertiser ad serving? JA: The reason is publishing. I view publishing as crucially important to us as a society. When I originally started running ad networks, the reason was due to the fact many […]
