“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 Anthony Katsur, CEO of Maxifier. What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to “programmatic premium,” quite a lot. Interpretations of this term differ widely, as evidenced by the […]
Last week’s PROGRAMMATIC I/O delivered many interesting discussions, and one of them revolved around transparency in bidding on an exchange. What if you had sufficient transparency on every impression’s auction, such that all buy-side participants bidding in an auction (even bidding “lurkers” or non-bidders) were revealed? Who would care about this data and why? Hold […]
Brian O’Kelley wants you to know he’s serious about mobile. On the same day IDC reported Q1 PC sales plummeted 13.9% as consumer usage shifted dramatically to tablet and smartphone devices, the CEO of AppNexus told attendees at the company’s San Francisco summit that the company is going “all in” with its mobile strategy. O’Kelley […]
Mobile app analytics provider Flurry has been preparing for a world where mobile is the main nexus for marketing and e-commerce. And while mobile ad spend generally lags way behind consumer usage, the company believes that dynamic will change relatively quickly and that its Flurry Marketplace, the name of its mobile RTB system, will help […]
For the past year, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has emphasized the company’s position as a programmatic player, discussing the importance of its “tech stack” and building up its year-old demand-side platform AdLearn. The company hopes to complete the circle around its automated ad services with the launch of its long-promised supply side platform, dubbed simply […]
Last week X+1 secured a new $17 million debt facility with Ares Capital, a cash reservoir the demand-side platform plans to tap for two acquisitions this quarter (one social, one mobile). A global expansion will follow in the second half of the year, including a possible outpost in Brazil, according to CEO John Nardone. By […]
“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 by Douglas de Jager, founder of Spider.io. In Will Luttrell’s AdExchanger article of last week, he argues that if the display advertising buy side adopts better performance metrics then the problem of fraud […]
One question that’s unlikely to be addressed during today’s Facebook press conference has to do with the possible data tracking implications of a phone deeply integrated with Facebook’s core features. But given Facebook’s mobile ubiquity (More than 680 million people use Facebook on mobile devices every month) and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s focus on the mobile […]
“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 Will Luttrell, Co-founder and CTO at Integral Ad Science. Fraud impacts the entire online advertising industry and costs us millions of dollars each year. While everyone can play a role in […]
That was quick! AdExchanger’s conference, PROGRAMMATIC I/O, is sold out for our April 8 San Francisco event which is focused on educating the marketer on The New Normal of Marketing – programmatic media. You can still get on the wait list for April 8 at www.programmatic.io. For attendees, the SF conference’s agenda is available and includes […]
