Technology

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 […]

Yesterday, Ben Edelman gave the Right Media Exchange on his website by alleging that the Yahoo exchange carries “false and deceptive display ads.” In his compelling analysis, things look bleak as examples of dreaded “You’re a winner!”-type ads look like they are being served through RightMedia. Even CPX Interactive gets called on to the carpet […]

“Strategic imperatives”, people. Get ’em. Dinosaur advertising and marketing organization, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), is dipping its big toe in the turgid waters of online video with its breakthrough YouTube video series from CEO, Bob Liodice, entitled “Marketing in a recession series # 1“. In the video on his ANA blog, Liodice calmly […]

Industry trade group, Online Publishers Association (OPA), has discovered that media is more effective on premium content sites than on auto-generated, splogs created in Ukraine. But, wait. There’s more! In today’s MediaPost, Gavin O’Malley speaks with Pam Horan, president of the OPA, about the second of two studies funded by OPA using Dynamic Logic MarketNorms […]

With the balls of a full-grown Brahma, MediaPost has stepped forward and declared that 2009 is the year of the ad exchange.   We couldn’t agree more. MediaPost and Media6’s Joe Doran writes: “2008 saw the dominance of the exchange marketplace by RightMedia with ContextWeb’s ADSDAQ not far behind, but 2009 will see new entrants across […]

Today, Yahoo!’s Right Media distributed a press release in the UK about its new transparency offering, Marketplace Select, for advertisers – undoubtedly a response to recent embarassments uncovered by UK’s New Media Age among others. According to today’s New Media Age: “[Marketplace Select] comes after Right Media has been implicated in ad misplacement issues, the […]

ContextWeb, makers of the ADSDAQ contextual advertising exchange, has published a video on its blog from an entertaining panel at the recent OMMA Ad Nets conference in New York City. Featuring participants in the ad exchange space from Yahoo!’s Right Media and APT, DoubleClick Advertising Exchange, ContextWeb/ADSDAQ and two agency reps, the panel helped outline […]

No, Federated Media has not suddenly become part of AdECN, and by association, Microsoft. Apparently, AdECN is ready to test its new ad exchange platform called the Federated System and is asking that interested ad networks come and test the new version of the advertising exchange before it reaches a wider public release in 2009 […]

The suggestion in last week’s AdWeek article by Brian Morrissey, “Can Search’s ‘Beautiful System’ Extend to Display?,” is that all any advertising exchange or ad network needs is a self-service system which allows advertisers to easily create graphical display ads and, poof!, you’ve got nearly unlimited inventory available with search advertising-like revenue potential. Even the […]

On Tuesday, ThinkPanmure analysts Bill Morrison and Robert Coolbrith hosted an investor call with Frank Addante, CEO, The Rubicon Project. The Rubicon Project goal is to optimize ad network and ad exchange relationships for web publishers and increase their effective CPM for remnant display advertising – or “make mad cash” as Rubicon likes to say. […]