Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo!’s McGrory On Openness Gavin Dunaway interviews Yahoo! VP Ramsey McGrory about Right Media, Yahoo! and even McGrory’s army days in a comprehensive, two-part interview on Adotas. McGrory once again does not mince words in a not-so-veiled reference to Google when discussing the difference […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adap.tv Gets Video Ad Exchange Clients Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth covers the news that Adap.tv has signed Gannett, Omnicom and Publicis among others to its ad exchange. Trying to temper concerns about lower CPMs, Adap.tv’s CEO Amir Ashkenazi says that in comparison to display […]
Yahoo! is on the warpath again today with its premium messaging as a blog post by Stephanie Dorman, Senior Director, Client Services and Operations, bangs the drum on the closing of DMX and the new “premium” focus for its Right Media Exchange: “We believe that the future of the Right Media Exchange lies in the […]
In a reflection of its shift toward a “premium” exchange strategy, Yahoo!’s Direct Media Exchange – acquired as part of the Right Media acquisition – is being shuttered effective January 2010. In an email, participating DMX publishers have been notified today: “Right Media will discontinue the DMX platform on January 31, 2010, so that we […]
This is a response to AdExchanger.com’s recent survey, “Industry Reaction: The Impact Of Right Media And The Importance Of Multiple, Large Exchanges.” Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center – Kurt Unkel, SVP Being the slacker who didn’t turn in his homework on time on this one has afforded me the opportunity to read the many excellent perspectives […]
Bill Wise is Yahoo! VP/GM, Ad Platforms. Wise answered a few questions that follow up on yesterday’s announcement regarding Right Media’s new positioning. AdExchanger.com: When will Right Media have DSP capabilities? Right Media already has DSP capabilities by leveraging exchange inventory and linking and numerous decisioning, optimization, and analytics technology within the company, and has […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mike Walrath Exits Yahoo! SVP of Ad Strategy, Michael Walrath, left the company yesterday telling the WSJ’s Jessica Vascellaro that “it was the right time to ‘move on in my career’ and that he looks forward to ‘taking some time off and working with […]
Read the story by Abbey Klassen in AdAge: “Yahoo Rebrands Its Right Media Exchange as Premium“. More from Yahoo! VP/GM, Ad Platforms, Bill Wise on the Right Media blog here.
CPM Advisors’ CEO Rob Leathern noted yesterday that you can’t target Yahoo! through Google AdWords or the new Google/DoubleClick Ad Exchange even though you can target the other 199 of the top 200 sites on the planet. Rob thinks their may be some mischievous engineers at work on Google’s side. From here, I wonder if […]
By Bennie Smith, VP Exchange Operations/Platform Policy at Yahoo! Online advertising in the age of media fragmentation does not have to be like a box of chocolates. Both advertisers and publishers should know exactly what they are going to get with every ad impression. Ad exchanges have played a crucial role in making this possible […]
