Technology

For the ad exchange model, liquidity and scale are factors in determining price for media. And, of course, so is data. Today, behavioral impressions are bought and sold, contextual impressions are bought and sold, etc. In the future, among several ways to trade advertising, including online display advertising, we suggest the “media profile” value. The […]

Today’s Media Post reports that yield optimizer, Pubmatic, led by CEO Rajeev Goel, is providing new tools to large publishers which he says already comprises 80% of the inventory among the 5,500 Pubmatic publishers. From Media Post’s Mark Walsh: PubMatic Premiere is aimed at publishers with more than $5 million in annual online revenue, and […]

Darren Herman of MDC Partners‘ Varick Media Management recently published his thoughts on the disintermediation of online display advertising and, by extension, ad networks. Though it cannot be said we’re in complete agreement, it is a well-conceived argument that plots a path to success for savvy ad agencies who are ready to bring ad exchange […]

Google is interested in your interests. The Google monolith announced today that its next option for advertisers will include behavioral targeting, and Miguel Helft of the NY Times wisely posits that the acquisition of DoubleClick and its technology is becoming more visible in Google strategy. From “Google’s Official Blog,” Susan Wojcicki, VP, Product Management, writes: […]

The Online Publishers Association has nobly decided to help the world of display advertising by introducing three, online display ad sizes. Each new ad unit will be implemented and sold only through participating publishers’ direct sales teams later this year. Implicit is that ad networks and exchanges will not be selling these units. Yeah, right. […]

Amidst the mayhem of the current AdMonsters Publisher Forum in New Orleans which brings together ad operations professionals and their ad technology vendors comes news! AdMeld, led by CEO Michael Barrett and founders Ben Barokas and Brian Adams, has released a new tool for client publishers. AdMeld‘s FireMeld enables the ad operations team of web […]

Are those pork bellies or M&M’s in the picture? Ad exchanges get premium billing in Razorfish’s just-released 2009 Digital Outlook paper (PDF here). In the “What’s emerging” section of the paper, Razorfish has imbibed the ad exchange Kool-aid with a four-page spread entitled, “Ad Exchanges: Revolutionizing the Buy-Sell Process.” The exchange feature is even before […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday. During the on-stage interview with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, (a little) more information dribbled out on Big G’s ad exchange and display advertising strategy. From CNN: Schmidt also said the search advertising company has a good opportunity […]

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 […]

A flood of behavioral targeting company news coincided with the OMMA Behavioral conference at the Marriott Marquis in NYC this past Thursday. In ClickZ, Michael Katz of interClick noted the recent appearance of new data “intermediaries” – such as yield optimizers Rubicon Project, “meta network” MediaMath and ad data exchanges like Media 6° and BlueKai […]