Last week PaidContent gave us an update on Sambreel Holdings, a fast-growing purveyor of browser plugins and other software that can alter ad space on premium websites. Some of Sambreel’s products work by displacing ad positions on sites like About.com, Google.com, NYTimes.com and other publishers, and then inserting new ads that Sambreel sells through its […]
PubMatic‘s 5th annual Ad Revenue Conference took place today in New York City. Fifth annual. Like the event, the industry has matured over time. It was only 2010 when RTB was the theme for Ad Revenue. Today’s opening keynote from PubMatic CEO Rajeev Goal stressed “holistic” sales management as technology guides yield management over all […]
“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Bob Walczak is VP Mobile Product at Pubmatic. Mobile is a massively fragmented market, making a simple action like delivering a static banner ad a fairly involved process today. At this point we have figured out the basics. When an ad […]
CEO Rajeev Goel is CEO of PubMatic, a sell-side platform. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com spoke with Goel to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of PubMatic today. Click below or scroll for more: Effects Of Google-Admeld Is PubMatic An Exchange? The […]
Today, PubMatic produced its annual Ad Revenue Conference in New York City focused on the sell-side of the ad ecosystem. In a panel bringing together thought leaders who’ve “been busy” in the private marketplace or exchange space (whichever you prefer), Upstream Group’s Doug Weaver ably guided discussion about who’s buying and selling privately in audience-based […]
Today, PubMatic announced that Kirk McDonald (LinkedIn), who was President, Digital of Time Inc, has joined the company as its President. Read the release. McDonald discussed his new role and the larger publisher landscape with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: Why is PubMatic the right next step for you? KM: Here’s the truth. I believe that the industry […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Rajeev Goel is CEO of PubMatic, a publisher yield optimization company. With the development of so many sophisticated technical solutions to help online publishers minimize the risk of running malware and ads delivered to the wrong person at the wrong time […]
Publisher yield optimization company, PubMatic, announced a $7.5 million Series C investment round led by existing investor Helion Venture Partners. Read the release. CEO Rajeev Goel discussed the funding and plans for the company. AdExchanger.com: Can you talk a bit more about how your platform will manage both direct and non-guaranteed inventory? Why the move […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Alanna Clark is Director of Business Development at AdMeld, a publisher yield optimization company. Three-day weekends, holiday seasons, a plethora of Q1 inventory. These are all normal signals and events throughout the course of our year but also triggers for more […]
Today, PubMatic announced that it is offering a next rev in its publisher-side yield optimization platform which notably includes “guaranteed inventory yield management” and possibly puts it into competition with Yieldex, which has been working the direct sales optimization side for publishers for a while now. See the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev […]
Demand-side platform Invite Media issued a release today about its real-time biddable inventory sources which include AdBrite, AdMeld and PubMatic. Read the release. Invite Media COO Nat Turner discussed some of the intricacies of online media buying today with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: You discuss buying “brand-safe” inventory in your release. How do you determine whether inventory […]
Pubmatic has released its latest Ad Price Index focusing on “premium publishers.” According to the report, CPM pricing has been moving up. Read the release. And, download the report (PDF). AdExchanger.com spoke to PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev Goel about the report. AdExchanger.com: In your estimation, what’s the biggest “a ha!” in the report? RG: The most […]
AdExchanger.com asked PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev Goel about their recent estimate for total RTB (real-time bidding) spend this year and last which he offered in a MediaWeek byline this week. Goel emphasized that this is an estimate. RG: Our estimate is based on our own methodology. Here is an overview of how we came up with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bizo On Transparency Bizo and its CEO Russell Glass think they’ve got the right idea on transparency. In a Bizo blog post called “The Next Generation of Truly Transparent Ads,” Glass gives his answer to “What would it be like if with every ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CBS Lovin’ Ad Exchanges Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth breaks the supposed bad news for ad networks that CBS Interactive is showing the door to arbitrage in hopes of boosting direct ad sales, eliminating channel conflict and getting control of their data. The good news? […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Turn Says RTB Working In a release, demand-side platform Turn announced that it is seeing “dramatic” initial results in its real-time bidding integrations with PubMatic and AdMeld. The company says that it’s seeing conversion rates more than double the rates seen with non-Real-Time Bidding […]
Janneke Niessen is CEO of Improve Digital, a publisher yield optimization firm based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: How did Improve Digital begin? Publishers are facing a shift in the online advertising ecosystem where performance campaigns, ad networks and exchanges are playing a more and more dominant role. In 2007, over 40 percent of the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. $9 Million For Rubicon Project Rubicon Project brought in another $9 million in equity investment to “continue pursuing acquisitions and global expansion.” Leading in this round was GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund which invested $6 million investment with existing investors Clearstone Venture Partners and Mayfield […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Media Contacts Picks Tribal Fusion Tribal Fusion is taking their relationship with Media Contacts, “the global interactive media network of Havas Digital, the interactive division of Havas Media” to another strategic level and will be supplying the agency with nearly every service an agency […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic Hires Peter Kafka of All Things D reports that Andrew Rutledge, who had been in charge of publisher sales for DoubleClick for the past year, has moved to yield optimizer, PubMatic, and assumed a similar role. (Read the release.) Josh Wetzel from eBay […]
Turn has announced today that it will offer a white label version of its buying platform to agencies and advertisers. (Read the release.) Previously known as a network and exchange, Turn will now let buyers buy media from the same sources that Turn-the-network does for its clients with its Exchange Trading Desk product. In addition, […]
Today’s linkage on ad exchange-related news… Rubicon Project released a new report on Q1 advertising CPMs and trends in display. Among the findings, Joe Mandese of MediaPost reports that “Rubicon estimated that the volume of display advertising inventory sold through advertising networks grew 150% between the two quarters, and that “same site” sales actually grew […]
Rajeev Goel is CEO of PubMatic. AdExchanger.com: What will demand‐side optimization provide for the advertiser/agency? Can you quantify performance improvements an advertiser might see in comparison to futures or reserved bidding/buying? Real time demand‐side optimization will provide advertisers and agencies with the ability to better target individual web users with the most relevant and timely […]
Those crazy yield optimizers are at it again! Or, are they really ad exchanges waiting in the tall grass? First up, Yield Build. The company led by CEO Paul Edmondson has launched a new premium text ad network for publishers that optimizes Google AdSense ads in combination with somewhat exclusive Microsoft PubCenter ads and produces […]
Rajeev Goel is CEO and Co-Founder of yield optimizer, Pubmatic based in Palo Alto, California. AdExchanger.com: How many participating publishers does Pubmatic have? Rajeev: We have over 5,500 large and medium publishers using PubMatic including eBay, Kiplinger , Inc./Fast Company, Sugar Network, United Press International, and many more. What is your target publisher market? Can […]
This news likely crossed under the radar for many but yield optimizer, Pubmatic, took another step forward into the exchange model by allowing ad networks open API access – the ability to buy from its network of website publishers. To date, yield optimizers have served member publishers by aggregating, and then testing (sometimes may also […]
Hang on to your hats – the world is going to end! Wait, why bother hanging on to your hats if the world’s going to end? Another report came out showing a slump in ad spending year over year. This time its Pubmatic’s quarterly review of display advertising pricing, the AdPrice Index, as seen from […]
