Philip Smolin, General Manager, Platform Solutions at Turn discusses yesterday’s announcement regarding their new, white-label buying platform solutions. AdExchanger.com: How do you differentiate with other solutions in the marketplace such as MediaMath and Invite Media? PS: Turn is best-in-class for custom audience targeting, optimization and analytics. A number of vendors are providing basic exchange management […]
“Give us back our lunch money!” At times, the loathing is over the top. Certain members of the advertising ecosystem (even ad networks) have little respect for the ad network model. It’s as if someone stole the complainers’ lunch money each and every day of the year. All ad networks have ever done is provide […]
Yesterday’s OMMA Publish conference in New York City was at full capacity as publishers came to swap stories and look for solutions in a down economy. One panel, ably moderated by MediaPost‘s Joe Mandese, struck at one of the core bones of contention: how to deal with ad networks. The panel, with the linkbait title, […]
Jeff Hirsch is President and CEO of AudienceScience. AdExchanger.com: Do you agree that audience has become more important than placement? If so, what have been the key drivers? JH: I absolutely agree that the reaching right audience is the most important component of any advertising. Contextual placements are often a proxy for reaching a specific […]
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 […]
Jay Sears is EVP, Strategic Products & Business Development of ContextWeb, Inc. / ADSDAQ Exchange who announced their real-time bidding API recently. 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? JS: More control. Very simply, real-time impression level […]
We have exchanges. We have trading. We have media. And, we have data. What are we missing? How about “Real-Time Bidding,” or RTB, for short? With RTB, exchange participants have a new feature coming for the buy side which should make agency business intelligence mucky-mucks and advertisers delirious after watching the development of yield management […]
ContextWeb announced that it will allow real-time bidding on its inventory through an API. It’s unclear from the press release if the API is currently “live” to clients. Nevertheless, this could be an exciting opportunity for advertisers who will be able to optimize on the “demand” end. “With ADSDAQ’s Real Time API, the ADSDAQ Exchange […]
