Criteo wants to be an advertiser’s one-stop shop for, well, shopping. On Tuesday, Criteo released a supply-side platform out of beta called Commerce Grid specifically for buyers and sellers of commerce media.
Amazon accounts for more than 40% of retail media’s multibillion-dollar total addressable market. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big opportunity to scale retailer audiences across the open internet, says Criteo CEO Megan Clarken.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shop ’Til You Drop Instagram will shut down the ability to tag items and direct people to a sale during a livestream, TechCrunch reports. The feature had been available since 2020 and was part of Meta’s overall push into more direct payments after […]
Getting cozy with agencies wasn’t always a priority for Criteo, which has direct relationships with more than 20,000 clients. But now that Criteo has commerce and retail media aspirations, it needs to strike agency partnerships, says its CRO Brian Gleason.
Ad tech companies are looking to expand beyond the content recommendation box to run display ads across the open web. Taboola and Outbrain have been closing acquisitions to make it happen – but other public companies like Google, Apple and Amazon are financially poised to compete, writes Alon Rosenthal, CEO & Founder of WhizzCo.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dos Va Donya IPONWEB founder and CEO Boris Mouzykantskii published an open letter and update on the company’s actions since the start of the war in Ukraine. There was theoretical concern the war would be a wrench in the $380 million acquisition of IPONWEB […]
On its Q4 earning call this week, Criteo announced the start of a three-year global partnership with GroupM, shared an update on the IPONWEB deal, got frank about the privacy impacts of ATT and made the case for moving away from a focus on take rate.
Vox Media buying Group Nine Media is the latest media mega merger to watch. Plus, Criteo buys IPONWEB. Both acquisitions are part of a strategy to find space unoccupied by Big Tech (and impervious to the demise of third-party cookies).
Is Criteo building an “anti-Google machine” with its proposed $380 million acquisition of IPONWEB? Criteo CEO Megan Clarken and Todd Parsons, chief product officer, weigh in and explain the vision. In short: the open web needs a hero.
Criteo is buying IPONWEB, the engineering company that built most of the underlying infrastructure for the ad tech ecosystem. The deal represents a huge chess move on the part of Criteo. So, what does Criteo get from acquiring the company responsible for building the foundation of programmatic advertising as it exists today?
Is ad tech’s cookieless future bright or bleak? “We are about to find out,” said Boris Mouzykantskii, CEO and co-founder of IPONWEB, speaking onstage at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in New York City on Monday. About to find out we are. Ready or not, third-party cookies will eventually be tossed onto the dust heap of […]
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 […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Wenda Zhou, Head of Media Operations, IPONWEB. When programmatic first started, publishers largely viewed it as another channel they could use to offload remnant inventory and squeeze out more revenue. It wasn’t considered a risk […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. We’ll take that as a ‘yes’ The age of email-based identifiers is nigh. But are these cookie replacements actually as transparent about consent as promised? Digiday’s Kate Kaye says mebbe not. “Because many identity technologies, including Unified ID 2.0, use email addresses and other […]
“The Sell Sider” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Wenda Zhou, publisher product lead at IPONWEB. The quest for cleaner supply has been high on the buyer agenda for some time, with much written about why routes through […]
AdExchanger’s Social Distancing With Friends podcast now has its own channel. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Barry Adams, general manager of BidSwitch, lived abroad for 20 years, in China, Hong Kong and most recently London – until the end of January this year, when he got married and moved to New […]
Because WordPress hosts numerous blogs and websites – it claims to power 31% of the internet – it has a tough time scaling its ability to police brand safety. While brands can often find their audiences on WordPress domains, they can also find themselves next to unsavory content. So WordPress, which runs an exchange called […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rohan Lala, director of media activation at IPONWEB. It is no secret that many of today’s digital publishers have serious concerns about the state of ad tech. They have yielded a huge amount of […]
“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 Bill Wise, co-founder and CEO at Mediaocean, and Boris Mouzykantskii, founder, CEO and chief scientist at IPONWEB. With its ability to radically open up opaque transaction systems, blockchain is perfectly […]
IPONWEB might have made its name building ad tech for other vendors, but it’s increasingly hoping to directly service agencies, brands and publishers. An expanding 35% of IPONWEB’s business comes directly from media buyers and owners, and in late February, the company brought on Rubicon Project and Spotify vet Jana Jakovljevic to build out its […]
“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 Nathan Woodman, senior vice president of strategic development at IPONWEB. There’s a scene in the 2002 Tom Cruise movie, “Minority Report,” that has become legendary in marketing and ad tech […]
“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 Nathan Woodman, general manager of demand solutions at IPONWEB. During World War II, Allied bomber planes faced a critical design problem. They were slow, lumbering and constantly shot down. The […]
BidSwitch on Monday announced a feature for its API that will incorporate the OpenRTB2.3 standards, opening up new sources of native supply and, according to BidSwitch GM Bob Walczak, “[enabling] a much higher degree of innovation and efficiency in the native market.” BidSwitch’s value proposition is its ability to integrate once and then connect with […]
Just a few months after it hired Digilant COO Nathan Woodman to take charge of its demand-side business, IPONWEB has nabbed another well-known ad tech guy. The 13-year-old ad platform company has hired Bob Walczak, VP product at PubMatic, to oversee BidSwitch, its ad exchange-like product. At IPONWEB, Walczak will run sales and business operations for BidSwitch, a […]
Russian real-time bidding (RTB) engineering firm IPONWEB has largely operated behind the scenes as the backbone of many media-trading platforms. Notably, IPONWEB helped RightMedia build out its ad exchange preceding its 2007 acquisition by Yahoo, and has since constructed 40 more trading systems at a similar or smaller scale. In late August, IPONWEB moved in […]
Ad tech companies Ghostery and IPONWEB have combined their technologies to launch an antifraud service Thursday called Ghostery Verified Domains. The service, designed for an RTB environment, enables advertisers to allocate campaign dollars based on the perceived level of legitimate traffic. These levels include verified, masked, suspicious or unknown. “It’s creating an extra data layer […]
The online ecosystem is different in Russia. Yandex is the search leader over Google; VK.com (originally VKontakte) and Odnoklassniki.ru are more popular social networks than Facebook. But when it comes to programmatic buying, the country looks similar to the US RTB circa 2011, thanks in part to the participation of Russia’s major internet players. The […]
Boris Mouzykantskii is Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Scientist of IPONWEB, a media trading technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please share a bit of background on IPONWEB. What does the name mean? BM: IPONWEB was originally founded with my wife in 2001 when I was still a lecturer and researcher in Theoretical Physics in the UK. […]
