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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

BrightRoll Bonds With comScore for Optimization, Validation

Written on
February 18th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Online video tech firm BrightRoll, which operates the BrightRoll video ad exchange, is integrating comScore’s AdEffx Campaign Essentials dashboard to its platform for optimizing online video in real-time. Advertisers on the exchange will be assured their campaigns are reaching the intended audiences through comScore’s third-party validation. In addition, clients [...] more...

Publishers on Board Video Ad Bandwagon

Written on
November 8th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – All the M&A action today in the video space certainly buoys the notion that video ads hotter than hotcakes (sorry mobile) and video ad networks are cruising. A recent survey of publishers by BrightRoll only furthers those notions as two-thirds of respondents said video advertising was outpacing other [...] more...

BrightRoll Opens Mobile Doors for Pre-Roll

Written on
September 23rd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In May, video ad network BrightRoll released a case study suggesting that a five-month online video ad campaign for one advertiser led to a 6% lift in in-store sales. So what kind of lift would a mobile video campaign give to a similar retailer? BrightRoll will soon find [...] more...

Online Vid Viewing Explodes in November

Written on
January 8th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Baskin Robbins may still have 31 flavors, but November 2009 boasted more than 31 billion online videos viewed in the U.S., according to comScore. I’m a bit more impressed by the latter. It was the biggest month ever for online video viewing, with more than 170 million unique U.S. [...] more...

Industry news on hirings, offerings and reports

Written on
July 30th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — Bizo, BrightRoll, Epsilon and Audience Science has some announcements. AudienceScience has released Audience Relevant Messaging (ARM), a new dynamic targeting offering that enables advertisers to deliver personalized messages to consumers based on their individual interests and/or intent to purchase. ARM offers advertisers the potential for unparalleled ROI with dynamic [...] more...



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