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Quick Hits: Facebook Settles with the FTC, Cyber Monday vs. Other Mondays

Written on
November 29th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Facebook has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it shared data from its users after telling users said data would remain private. The FTC brought up eight counts, some of which are actually a few years old at this point. Some of the charges held the social network [...] more...

Scary Study Finds OBA Opt-Out Mechanisms ‘Fundamentally Flawed’

Written on
October 31st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – For Halloween, I was thinking the scariest thing I could dress up as would be a third-party online data collector. I mean, what is more horrifying than a member of the cyberazzi? I figure I could go to cafés and spy on what sites Internet users are browsing, conspicuously taking [...] 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...

eXelate Infuses Audience Data Into Cognitive Match’s Dynamic Creative Targeting

Written on
October 21st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS - As we wrote earlier this week, hunting down cookied users on the exchanges for retargeting purposes can prove to be absolutely useless if the ad itself is completely irrelevant to the surrounding content. However, relavent ad creative is another pertinent part of the retargeting equation — I personally hate [...] more...

Quick Hits: Yahoo Revamps Video Hub, Shows Off New Series

Written on
October 4th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – In the wake of portal rival AOL’s online video upfront with 15 new web series (one with Heidi Klum, one produced by Jennifer Lopez), Yahoo! unveiled eight new web series as part of the rollout of its revamped video hub, which will be a central resource for videos across [...] more...

eXelate Data Validated by comScore

Written on
August 16th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The ever-growing realm of audience data has long had that old “truth in advertising” issue — When purchasing anonymous and PII-free data, just how does a buyer verify he/she got what he/she paid for? Third-party data market provider eXelate presents a solution — the company has tapped comScore to [...] more...

ChoiceStream CRUNCHes Proprietary Intent Data for Audience Targeting Platform

Written on
June 28th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – ChoiceStream is betting on the insight gleaned from 10 years of amassing consumer data to market CRUNCH, a new custom audience targeting platform for brand display campaigns focused on the individual level. The end-to-end solution employs the ChoiceStream’s proprietary intent data to predict audience behavior, then recalibrates audience [...] more...

Welcome Aboard: Patrizi New CRO at Bunchball and More

Written on
May 31st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS - Hey, I know it’s been a while since I did hiring announcements through “Welcome Aboard”; I was thinking about killing the feature, but I just had a slew of announcements come in. Should “Welcome Board” stay or should it go now? Darlin’, you gotta let me know…. Gamification guru [...] more...

PubMatic Offers Pubs Easy Access to Third-Party Data

Written on
April 7th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Among many interesting findings — including that advertisers are highly interested in RTB-powered publisher private exchanges — PubMatic’s recent survey with DigiDay discovered that 47% of publishers had to turn down an advertiser RFP because they couldn’t provide the required targeting. Hey, no need to be sad! PubMatic will [...] more...

eXelate Hooks Up Pubs With DataLinx DMP

Written on
March 22nd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Everybody wants a slice of data pie these days, so publishers have to make sure their sweet audience info is protected from potential snatchers. eXelate introduced DataLinX, a new data management platform for publishers that features the company’s DataShield technology. DataShield allows publishers to identify and monitor third-party [...] more...



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