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Forrester’s SSP Report Released

Written on
January 3rd 2012
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Forrester Research issued its long-awaited Forrester Wave Report on sell-side platforms today. (This announcement comes three weeks after the research firm released its 2011 report on demand-side platforms.) According to a statement from Forrester, the company applied 34 criteria to the platforms it looked at, including current offering, strategy [...] more...

Quick Hits: Cognitive Match and Adnetik Hook Up, NeverBlue Introduces Day-Parting

Written on
October 26th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Dynamic creative targeter Cognitive Match has partnered with AdNetik to bring its real-time dynamic creative solution to impression by impression buying on AdNetik’s Audience Investment Management platform. Last week Cognitive Match incorporated eXelate’s audience data into both its dynamic creative preparation and hybrid audience- and contextual-based targeting. • Lead-gen network [...] more...

MediaOcean: So Wrong, Yet So Right!

Written on
September 29th 2011
Author
Chris O'Hara

ADOTAS - A “platform” is a system that can be programmed and therefore customized by outside developers — users — and in that way, adapted to countless needs and niches that the platform’s original developers could not have possibly contemplated, much less had time to accommodate. – Marc Andreessen, 2007 Last [...] more...

The New Display Ecosystem, Part I: A Few Words on HYPE

Written on
July 20th 2011
Author
Mike Nolet

ADOTAS – It’s been four years since I wrote one of my most popular series of blog posts of all time — “The Ad Exchange Model” (part 1, part 2 and part 3). Since then a lot has happened. A whole slew of three letter acronyms has appeared: DSP, SSP, [...] more...

AppNexus Powers Ybrant’s Facebook Quality Control Center

Written on
May 5th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Facebook’s Platform Terms for Advertising Providers, introduced last December, made news in the tech world for the companies that refused to agree to them — namely, Google AdSense. Facebook began ordering developers to drop non-complying ad providers, though the social network insisted it didn’t single out any providers. These [...] more...

Quick Hits: The End of Tax-Free Internet Sales?

Written on
April 12th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

After Easter recess, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) is planning to introduce the Main Street Fairness Act (groan), which would open up all Internet sales to state sales taxes. At Cnet, Declan McCullagh explains why the logistics of such a move would be frightening. Pay-per-call specialist Marchex has laid down $62.5 million [...] more...

Technorati Drafts AppNexus for Private Exchange

Written on
April 6th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – As comScore’s 13th largest media entity in the U.S., Technorati is the latest major online publisher to jump on the private exchange train, but there’s an interesting twist — Technorati also runs a social media network stretching more than 1,500 blogs. The private exchange, built by AppNexus, will open [...] more...

AppNexus and Tumri Merge RTB and Dynamic Creative

Written on
March 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It was only a matter of time before dynamic creative and real-time bidding stopped flirting and finally hopped in the sack. Tumri and AppNexus have got it on to build a “creative plus media bidding” feature for users of AppNexus’ RTB platform. AppNexus’ integration with Tumri Ensemble will allow ad [...] more...

TRAFFIQ Builds Itself a Trading Desk

Written on
November 3rd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Two is usually better than one, so why not install two ways of media buying in a single display platform? TRAFFIQ just opened up its Trading Desk for duty, offering clients a single platform for both guaranteed display and real-time audience buying. Platform users will be able to [...] more...

Got Funds: AppNexus Brings Home $50 Million

Written on
October 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Longtime client Microsoft joined existing investors in injecting $50 million into real-time bidding platform AppNexus during a Series C round of financing. Additional participants Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners and First Round Capital had previously invested in the Series B round; AppNexus’ total venture funding is $65.5 million. “We view [...] more...



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