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Forrester’s DSP Report Released

Written on
December 14th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Forrester Research released its greatly anticipated 2011 report on seven DSP vendors today. The report named MediaMath, Turn and DataXu leaders in the field, based on how they matched up to 48 criteria, including, as the summary put it, “breadth of their media access, the depth and acumen of [...] more...

DataXu Welds Data Management Capabilities Into DX3

Written on
November 10th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Guess you can’t call it just a DSP anymore — by incorporating data management capabilities into its DSP, DataXu’s upgraded DX3 platform is being hailed by the company as a “fully integrated digital marketing management platform.” A mouthful, yes, but a fair assessment of a melded media planning/buying and data [...] more...

Case Study: Hodes Group and MediaMind Employ Exchange Buying for Employee Recruiting

Written on
October 11th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Why bother calling a head hunter when you can target display advertising at high-potential candidates? That seemed to be the thinking of the Fortune 500 entertainment company that hired recruitment marketer Bernard Hodes Group, which in turn employed MediaMind’s Smart Trading platform for exchange buying, to use advanced targeting [...] more...

Don’t Abandon the Non-Behavioral Portion of Your Campaign

Written on
October 4th 2011
Author
Eric Bingham

ADOTAS – In his recent article “Five Horrible Ad Placements That Could Have Been Avoided,” Peer39 CEO Andy Ellenthal points out the dangers of incongruent and even inappropriate contextual adjacencies that can arise in the execution of retargeting campaigns. But rather than a few ad placements with marginal contextual relevance [...] more...

Report: Ad Networks Raking in More Display Spend

Written on
September 30th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Pretty assured in the belief that ad networks are on the decline? Well, the second annual Online Advertisers Survey Report from Econsultancy and supply-side platform The Rubicon Project suggests quite the opposite, with networks receiving an average of 55% of the average media plan compared to 31% cited [...] more...

Answers Served: AdSafe Predicts Ad Performance Through Engagement Quality Ratings

Written on
September 27th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Is it possible to verify a placement before the impression is even bought? Well, no, but AdSafe Media is pushing the conventional boundaries of ad verification to veer into predictive analytics with its new Engagement Quality Ratings. Designed for all types of media-buying including RTB, the ratings inform advertisers pre-bid the likeliness of [...] more...

DataXu Launches Straightforward Social Audience Targeting

Written on
September 26th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – If only all things in the DSP realm — nah, make that digital ad tech in general — were as straightforward as DataXu’s new DX Social, an expansion of the DSP’s audience targeting solution into the social sphere (well, Facebook for now, but Twitter and Google+ capabilities are [...] more...

Casale Opens Premium Exchange for Elite Pub Base

Written on
August 12th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Basically joining the private exchange cause, Casale Media has opened up CasaleX, imbuing its 3,000 hand-picked premium publishers with the power of real-time bidding. Casale pubs will be able to select what and how much inventory they want to offer to selected DSPs and trading desks through the [...] more...

Answers Served: TRAFFIQ Talks Private Marketplaces and Other Platform Enhancements

Written on
July 27th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Demand-side digital media management platform TRAFFIQ expands its offerings so much that it’s hard to keep up. Fortunately, we were able to hit Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing  (and regular Adotas contributor) Chris O’Hara with questions regarding the platform’s latest upgrades (including customized and private publisher portfolios [...] more...

Sparks Fly Over Agency Trading Desks at OMMA AdNets

Written on
July 22nd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Lovers of drama and the ad tech space are in for a treat, as a panel from the OMMA AdNets conference transcended from being a snorefest in which the same talking heads make the same statements they make at every conference into a tension-filled debate over the role [...] more...



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