OpenX CEO John Gentry On Why SSPs Don’t Deserve The Flack They Catch
OpenX would like people to stop thinking about supply-side platforms as “dumb pipes,” thank you very much.
OpenX would like people to stop thinking about supply-side platforms as “dumb pipes,” thank you very much.
The past decade has been tumultuous for supply-side platforms. But SSPs will be fine, according to SSPs. They’re simply evolving.
When MediaMath filed for bankruptcy last week, the company’s co-founder and former CEO, Joe Zawadzki, was on the outside looking in. AdExchanger spoke with Zawadzki just a few hours after the news broke.
There’s a prevailing narrative that supply-side platforms are releasing tools to cut out demand-side platforms in a desperate attempt to differentiate. But “it’s much more nuanced than that,” says Magnite CRO Sean Buckley.
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Michael Katz is President and Founder of InterClick. AdExchanger.com: Is it more difficult being a public company than private in the advertising industry? Does this give an advantage to your competitors? Good question, I get asked this a lot. There have been many advantages and disadvantages to being public. I think being public has provided […]
A flood of behavioral targeting company news coincided with the OMMA Behavioral conference at the Marriott Marquis in NYC this past Thursday. In ClickZ, Michael Katz of interClick noted the recent appearance of new data “intermediaries” – such as yield optimizers Rubicon Project, “meta network” MediaMath and ad data exchanges like Media 6° and BlueKai […]