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Blogshare: BrightRoll’s Tod Sacerdoti on Acquisitions, IPOs, and the Company’s Near Future

Written on
May 13th 2013
Author
Mike Daly

ADOTAS — On the heels of last week’s Bloomberg report speculating which online video ad companies might be ripe for IPOs, peHUB quizzed BrightRoll founder and CEO Tod Sacerdoti about his company’s remarkable growth and the prospects for its own potential public offering. Read More ... Subscribe to the free Adotas.com Newsletter [...] more...

The State of Online Video Advertising: Growing, Pricey, Fragmented

Written on
April 23rd 2013
Author
Peter Koeppel

ADOTAS – There’s no denying it: Online video is growing exponentially. The online video industry is expected to reach $28.72 billion in 2017, up from the $3.79 billion recorded in 2010 and the $11.14 billion expected in 20121. By 2016, it is estimated that it would take over six million years [...] more...

Where Have You Gone, Dru Nelson?

Written on
March 27th 2013
Author
Mike Daly

ADOTAS – Dru Nelson (pictured) has quietly disappeared from the corporate website of BrightRoll, which he co-founded in 2006 and where he had been serving as Chief Technology Officer. Asked about that development in a phone call earlier this week, BrightRoll PR Manager Maya Komadina told ADOTAS she would look into [...] more...

Online Video is Not Yet Delivering on its Promi$e

Written on
March 20th 2013
Author
Richard L. Tso

ADOTAS – Traditional journalism has been on the decline for decades, and the emergence of online video content has been successful in attracting eyeballs for technology blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch. Even mainstay outlets like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have started video news reporting initiatives. [...] more...

Welcome Aboard: This Week’s New Hires

Written on
April 13th 2012
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS - It’s another Friday, and while everyone’s preparing to check out for the weekend, you can also check out this week’s new appointments and promotions at software companies, ad agencies, marketing firms and major publishers. Welcome aboard, all, and without further ado: • Kartik Ramakrishnan is now senior vice president and [...] more...

BrightRoll Gains $30M Paycheck

Written on
November 16th 2011
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – Video advertising company BrightRoll has announced it has closed $30 million in financing. Trident Capital led the equity financing, and Trident Senior Managing Director Evangelos Simoudis will be joining the BrightRoll board. Existing investors True Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Adams Street Partners all participated, as did Comerica [...] more...

Quick Hits: AdReady Employs Collective Insights, Turn Adds Video Capabilities

Written on
November 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – At its partner summit today, DSP AdReady introduced Collective Insights, aimed at improving the effectiveness of smaller-budgeted client campaigns that don’t have the spend to ramp up an exchange’s optimization algorithm. Instead, Collective Insights aggregates insight from numerous small campaigns as well as dynamic third-party data to assemble a solid buy [...] more...

Quick Hits: RTB Will Hit $6 Billion in Global Spend in 2015

Written on
October 13th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – According to a new report by IDC and PubMatic prepared in advance of the latter’s Fourth Annual Ad Revenue Conference, global spending through real-time bidding is forecast to hit $6 billion by 2015 — $5 billion of that will be from the U.S., a 71% growth over current spend as [...] more...

Quick Hits: IAB Takes Over OpenRTB, LinkedIn Gives Company Pages Status Updates

Written on
October 6th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In a power struggle for the ages, the Interaactive Advertising Bureau has wrested control of the OpenRTB consortium from the hands of founding members DataXu, MediaMath, Turn, Admeld, PubMatic and the Rubicon Project…. What? The member organizations voluntarily handed over leadership of the project to develop industry standards for real-time [...] more...

BrightRoll Reports Online Video Now a Media-Buying Staple

Written on
May 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Online video is now a staple in media-buying, reports video ad network BrightRoll in its 2011 Online Video Advertising Report. Surveys of media buyers from the last few BrightRoll reports have shown a great deal of interest in the space, but confusion over ROI and targeting abilities. Eighty-six percent [...] more...



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