Google is making it more difficult for advertisers to have an independent view of the data generated from ad buys in its ecosystem. In a note to partners sent Friday and obtained by AdExchanger, Google said it will no longer let buyers use the DoubleClick ID when leveraging its data transfer service. The service allows […]
Pity the ad tech middleman. They place an ad on behalf of the advertiser, but when it comes time to get paid…they wait. And wait. And wait. In the meantime, they owe their own bills to creditors who want cash now. Since the economic crisis in 2008, marketers have slowed down payments to vendors and […]
“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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. The latest ad tech buzzword is supply-path optimization, and conveniently it comes with a tidy acronym – SPO – to save us all typing time. […]
Since its founding in 2000, Legendary Entertainment’s slate of 50 films has certainly lived up to its name, with a lineup that includes “The Dark Knight,” “The Hangover” trilogy and “Jurassic World.” While these releases seem incredibly different, they all have something in common: hundreds of millions in marketing dollars, often spent within a six-week […]
“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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. If you’re like me, you get calls, introduction emails and LinkedIn messages all the time from companies trying to figure out how to get the […]
“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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. The growth of walled gardens has quickly brought media buyers through the first four stages of grief: Denial: Those little text ads don’t really work […]
“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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. I went to the doctor’s office the other day and she complained to me, “You know, the problem with human anatomy is all the complexity. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. This is the Year of Header Bidding. OK, maybe it’s actually the Year of Ad Blocking, but header bidding is the second most talked-about topic in advertising, especially among […]
Ari Paparo is a longtime builder, explainer and sometimes lampooner of ad tech. And now he’s a CEO. The former product executive with Google, Nielsen and AppNexus has taken the wraps off his new company, Beeswax, which provides a licensed “Bidder-as-a-Service” technology geared to two primary constituents: (1) ad tech firms, such as ad networks […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. Why does waterfalling or “daisy chaining” exchanges produce additional yield for publishers? I received a lot of theories following my last dispatch, which examined this mysterious behavior of publishers trying […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. It may sound like the latest in young adult fiction, but this mystery is not dramatic or amusing, nor will it make your teenager ask you for money for […]
“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 Ari Paparo, SVP, product management at Bazaarvoice. From 2004-2010, Paparo was an executive with Google’s DoubleClick unit. There is a lot of news coverage and blog analysis responding to a USA […]
