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  • Ofer Druker On Tremor Video’s Plan To Buy Scale And Share In Ad Tech

    Tremor Video has had a dizzying few years in ad tech. In 2017, Tremor Video sold its demand-side business to Taptica, while shortly afterward the sell-side unit rebranded to Telaria and merged with Rubicon. Once the name was available, Taptica re-rebranded as Tremor Video. In 2019, Tremor acquired RhythmOne, an ad network and exchange, and […]

  • Taptica To Acquire Ad Tech Roll-Up RhythmOne For $176M

    Taptica will acquire RhythmOne for $176 million in an all-stock deal, the companies said Monday. The mobile ad tech firm also gets a matryoshka doll of assets along with RhythmOne, including assets from the latter’s previous acquisitions of YuMe, Burst Media and parts of RadiumOne. Taptica characterized the deal as a bid for connected televison […]

  • RhythmOne And Dataxu Tussle Over Unpaid Bills And Hidden Fees

    Advertisers aren’t the only ones irritated by hidden fees and undisclosed inventory sources. Dataxu is claiming it’s been victimized by shady auction mechanics following a soured partnership with RhythmOne. The situation came to light after RhythmOne filed a lawsuit in July against dataxu to recover $1,900,000 from three unpaid invoices between January and March. But […]

  • RhythmOne To Acquire YuMe For $185 Million To Ramp Up Cross-Screen Video

    Another video DSP is off the market. After Sky News reported in August that London-based ad tech company RhythmOne had expressed interest in acquiring video ad platform YuMe, the company pulled the trigger on Tuesday. The deal – a combination of both cash and stock – is worth $185 million. Upon the sale’s expected closure […]

  • A New UX For TV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Dwight Ringdahl, senior vice president of technology at RhythmOne.   The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposal to open up the set-top cable box is about a lot of things. It’s about reducing costs and […]

  • Iframes Leave Us Vulnerable To URL Fraud

    “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 Dwight Ringdahl, senior vice president of technology at RhythmOne.   The digital advertising industry is trying to clean up its act, waging a war against fraud on multiple fronts. Efforts […]

  • Standardization And Imagination Can End Programmatic’s Creative Wasteland

    “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 James Murphy, vice president of programmatic at RhythmOne. The challenge of developing impactful creative that can scale across the programmatic environment is one of the biggest limitations to wider adoption. […]

  • Publishers Can Help Programmatic Democratize The Video Media Economy

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Murphy, vice president of programmatic at RhythmOne. The only way programmatic will ever truly take off is if premium publishers come to the table with their entire video media inventory available for monetization. […]