Mike O’Sullivan

Aperiam has a new approach to VC investing that now also involves a strategic consulting practice and matching startups in its portfolio with brands looking for programmatic solutions.

To zero in on premium inventory, The Trade Desk is analyzing metadata signals about ad placements and pushing adoption of its alternative ID. It’s also betting the farm on CTV.

The Trade Desk has said it will buy Sincera, a startup that aggregates and supplies metadata to ad tech companies. This is TTD’s second-ever public acquisition.

Even when third-party cookie deprecation was ostensibly still in the offing last year, there was only modest publisher adoption of the Protected Audiences and Topics APIs, according to data from Sincera.

The practice involves monetizing resold subdomains jammed with recycled MFA articles produced by notorious content farms.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Church And Stock News publishers have had some business model challenges lately. That’s not news to anyone.  But one startup hopes to avoid the news industry’s advertiser drop-off and subscription malaise.  The startup, called Hunterbrook, will commission news stories from journalists, while an […]

As former product managers themselves who spent years in the technical trenches of ad tech, Sincera co-founders Ian Meyers and Mike O’Sullivan know what it’s like to try and build things in a messy industry full of jury-rigged technology.

The new version of header bidding software makes it easier to identify specific ad transactions, gives publishers more granular control over how they express user consent to downstream partners, and enables testing of Google’s Privacy Sandbox.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rules Of The Game In September 2021, Google Ads switched from last-click attribution as its default measurement mode to “data-driven attribution.” The latter is Google’s term for modeled attribution without preset rules, like that a brand’s first ad exposure or the last click […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It Takes Two ACR data and ad analytics firm Samba TV’s media sales business is now in the hands of programmatic firm MiQ, Deadline reports. As part of the multiyear commercial partnership,  MiQ will directly handle all of Samba’s former sales operations. Meanwhile, […]