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Despite widespread DSP consolidation, some buyers still find their needs aren’t being served. So IPONWEB developed Bidcore, a customizable DSP for buyers with unusual needs or use cases, and who don’t want to optimize around CPA, click-through rate or viewability. In the past, ad tech companies would have asked IPONWEB to build them a white […]

Demand-side platforms (DSPs) make money by taking a percentage of the media buys that flow through their technology – and from lots of other hidden extras they charge for. Interviews with more than a dozen sources reveal that even as marketers make progress in understanding what they’re paying for, nontransparent fees abound in the DSP […]

P&G’s programmatic buying platform AudienceScience has a new CEO. Company Chairman Bill Gossman will assume the role, effective immediately, and former head Mike Peralta will become chief strategy officer. AudienceScience also made two other executive hires: David De Simone, who will serve as COO, and Patrick Reilly, its VP of enterprise sales. “We’ve gotten to […]

Until May, Virgin Holidays lived up to the name of its parent company in terms of its experience with programmatic. As its senior digital marketing executive, Alex Adamson, attests, “We’d run some [display] activity in the past, but we never had a programmatic strategy in place. We never had an always-on approach.” That changed in […]

In Russia, programmatic and RTB practices are still in an early stage and make up less than 10% of the digital display advertising market. Yet despite that, or maybe because of it, demand-side platforms seem to be saturating the market – each seeking to distance itself from the competition. “The market is getting new DSPs every month,” Vladimir […]

Kraft knows that consumers are easily distracted. At Forrester’s Forum for Marketing Leaders, Bob Rupczynski, VP of media, data and CRM at Kraft Foods, outlined Kraft’s strategy for leveraging the CPG company’s vast customer data through a data management platform (DMP) and programmatic advertising. “Through our meals, recipes and videos, we have about a billion […]

As programmatic buying in China continues to pique marketers’ interest, demand-side platforms working in the country are growing in revenue and importance. Internet market research firm iResearch recently released an excerpt of its China DSP Market Trends Report 2013, including the market size of DSP display advertising in China, or the amount of ad spend […]

AOL’s display performance is in comeback mode, but growth is lopsided. The company’s Q3 earnings presented a clear demonstration of the strength of third party network, which includes the flagship ad unit Advertising.com, as revenues jumped 18 percent over the same period in 2011. At the same time, revenue from AOL’s owned & operated sites […]

Berlin-based Sociomantic Labs hit the U.S. in a big way last month with the hire of Jason Kelly, Admeld’s former chief revenue officer, as its new CEO (AdExchanger story). The company positions itself as a “performance DSP” with an e-commerce focus, competing with the likes of Criteo and traditional demand side platforms. It has global […]

Today, Aol announced the beta launch of its AdLearn Open Platform (AOP), “an extension of Advertising.com’s current AdLearn technology, that will allow clients to manage, optimize and analyze online marketing campaigns from one central platform. The platform provides digital marketing professionals with complete access to the robust AdLearn optimization technology, real-time bidding (RTB) capabilities, as […]

Today, DataXu announced that it has acquired demand-side platform (DSP) Mexad, which has its headquarters in Germany as well as offices in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Brazil. Dataxu said in a press release that it hopes to globally expand the use of its DX3 digital ad platform with brand advertisers. Read […]

Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a column devoted to an answer to a single question or topic – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is Jeff Green is Founder and CEO of The Trade Desk, a demand-side platform technology company. He […]

Yesterday, a team of analysts from Forrester Research led by Joanna O’Connell, published a new report, “The Forrester Wave: Demand-Side Platforms, Q4 2011,” shining a light on the programmatic buying trend in display advertising, and looking at seven demand-side platforms and their capabilities, in particular. O’Connell begins her team’s analysis by stating the challenge for […]

Joe Zawadzki is CEO of MediaMath, a demand-side platform technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Zawadzki to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of MediaMath today. Click below or scroll down for more: Today’s M&A The Past Year […]

With the demand-side platform (DSP) model continuing to propagate, data sellers and data management providers are seeing up-close how the DSP is applying data to the targeting of users in display, mobile and video ad inventory today. From their data-centric point-of-view, AdExchanger.com wanted to know… how is the DSP model doing? In particular, we asked […]

Google VP of Product Neal Mohan, who helps drive advertising product strategy at the company, spoke to AdExchanger.com about today’s announcement regarding the acquisition of sell-side platform Admeld. AdExchanger.com: What will happen to the Admeld team post-acquisition? NM: One of the big drivers of the acquisition is, in fact, the team. We were incredibly impressed […]

CEO Bill Wise’s MediaBank announced today that it has acquired demand-side platform AdBuyer.com (Read AdExchanger.com Q&As from 2009 and 2010). According to the MediaBank press release: “MediaBank will make the AdBuyer platform available to MediaBank partners via the MediaBank O|X and A|V media management systems, and will expand AdBuyer’s cross-channel capabilities across all major media—creating […]

Bruce Falck has joined Google’s demand-side platform Invite Media and will be leading the charge for sales as the unit’s sales director. It’s a role much like others across Google’s corporate structure of ad tech products such as DoubleClick Ad Exchange (where Lexi Reese and Michael Rubenstein had a similar role devoted to the Exchange.). […]

Jeff Green is CEO of The Trade Desk, a demand-side platform for digital media. AdExchanger.com: We touched on it before, but what problem is The Trade Desk solving? We think there are two really difficult problems that we’re addressing. What is it worth to an advertiser to show an ad to this user, with these […]

Today, demand-side platform (DSP) DataXu formally announced its mobile DSP capabilities. According to an article by MediaPost’s Mark Walsh, “The new platform also promises features such as advanced targeting, optimization that automatically allocates ad spending most efficiently, improved attribution metrics and analytics reporting across both the mobile Web and mobile applications.” Read more. DataXu CEO […]

Demand-side platform [x+1] and creative optimization technology company Tumri announced a “new retail-focused solution, Shopper Retargeting, [which]combines Tumri’s dynamic creative technology platform with [x+1]’s digital media optimization capabilities to deliver personalized ad retargeting.” Read the release. [x+1] vp of media strategy and CMO Perianne Grignon and Tumri president David Kim discussed the new partnership. AdExchanger.com: […]

Demand-side platform Turn announced that Scott Howe has joined its board of directors. A former aQuantive/Atlas/DrivePM exec who joined Microsoft as part of the multi-billion dollar aQuantive acquisition in 2007, Howe should provide Turn with deeper relationships with both agencies and marketers among other benefits. Read the release. Howe discussed his new board duties as […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. BrightTag Announces Funding Data rights management platform BrightTag (AdExchanger.com Q&A) announced that it has closed its Series A financing led by TomorrowVentures and New World Ventures with participation from Epic Ventures and the I2A Fund – note TomorrowVentures involvement which is an investment vehicle […]

Mediabank announced yesterday that it has launched a demand-side platform: “M|Buy DSP will be a central console through which national advertisers can order buys on local TV, print, radio, out-of-home, digital, and other advertising.” Read more. CEO Bill Wise discussed his company’s DSP and its features. Please discuss why M|Buy exists and its strategic importance […]

DataXu announced earlier this week that Hearst digital marketing agency iCrossing had chosen DataXu for demand-side platform services. Read the release. iCrossing VP Dax Hamman discussed the deal as well as iCrossing’s view on DSPs and “intent” media. AdExchanger.com: What are the triggers for choosing to include a demand-side platform in your business model in […]

Yesterday, media buying technology company MediaMind (stock quote: MDMD) offered its stock in the public markets for the first time ever as the company’s IPO priced 5 million shares at $11.50 – well below the original $14-16 price range that the company was shooting for a week ago. As of this writing, the stock was […]

Philip Smolin, GM, Platform Solutions of demand-side platform Turn discussed the company’s recently announced ROI Optimizer (read the release) as well as offline data integration with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Please identify what verticals the ROI Optimizer might be best for – or will get initial traction? PS: The ROI Optimizer is available immediately and relevant for brands […]

Real-time ad platform AppNexus and Collective, “a media and technology solutions provider for display advertising,” announced yesterday that Collective will integrate with AppNexus’ ad platform and leverage its tools and inventory, which includes the major ad exchanges like Google’s DoubleClick and Microsoft’s AdECN. Read the release. Collective EVP Jerome Fitzgibbons discussed the partnership and Collective […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DSP Chango Gets $1.4 Million Demand-side platform Chango (AdExchanger.com Q&A) which is focused on bringing search and display together announced in a release that it has raised $1.4 million in Series A financing from “Metamorphic Ventures and Geoff Judge [which adds] to their existing […]