Equativ

Equativ (formerly known as Smart AdServer) announced its acquisition of Sharethrough, an SSP with a specialty in native advertising.

Meet Greenbids, a Paris-based startup that helps intermediaries reduce carbon in the bid stream using predictive machine learning.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]

Premium video means just about anything that shows up in front of a consumer. Isn’t it time for a better definition?

In theory, there is a lot a publisher may know about how audiences interact with their content that doesn’t fit neatly into the way cookies operate or the broader categorization schemas that are used today. This is where SDAs can make all the difference, writes Andrew Rosenman, global product marketing lead for advanced TV and video at Equativ.

How will the high-stakes game of antitrust chicken between Google and the US Department of Justice play out? It could be a first important proactive step toward true structural change – not just at Google but across many of the biggest players in the industry, writes Arnaud Créput, CEO of Equativ.