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Programmatic Buying and the Evolution of Ad Tech

Written on
March 12th 2013
Author
John Dietz

It was 20 years ago when a now-defunct Silicon Valley law firm placed the first clickable banner ad on Global Network Navigator (an early publisher sold to AOL in 1995). In these last 20 years, we’ve seen big changes in ad technology, fueled by a combination of visionary marketers and [...] more...

PointRoll’s Rovion Acquisition Enables Interactive Flash, HTML5 Ad Creation in Minutes

Written on
December 4th 2012
Author
AdotasWire

NEW YORK (December 03, 2012) — PointRoll, a Gannett Company and the leading provider of digital marketing technology, today revealed additional capabilities including enabling ad creation in minutes, following the company’s acquisition of digital ad technology company, Rovion. PointRoll now offers Composer, a self-service, web-based ad creation technology formerly from [...] more...

Don’t Make the Same Mistake as Facebook: Why Brands Cannot Rely on HTML5

Written on
October 22nd 2012
Author
Michael Pardon

As smartphone and tablet consumers are increasingly accessing information, games and videos via browsers, mobile sites and apps, there has been a solid trend toward using HTML5 as a standard for both mobile and desktop platforms. Often considered as way to target all consumers in a fragmented mobile market, as [...] more...

The Future of HTML5 — and Why Marketers Should Care

Written on
May 1st 2012
Author
Carnet Williams

ADOTAS – If you don’t know much about HTML5 yet, you’re not alone. Still a relatively new language (it was only introduced just over a year ago), HTML5 is still very much a work in progress. It could be 10 years or more before it receives its World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [...] more...

How Adobe Is Stocking Up for the Future of Video

Written on
December 7th 2011
Author
Mark Trefgarne

ADOTAS – Adobe is making a big push into online video by purchasing video ad manager Auditude in a deal that supposedly hits triple digits. Adobe clearly wants a bigger chunk of the online advertising space, it seems, and it’s willing to get it through several expensive acquisitions: It picked [...] more...

Sprout Acquired by InMobi, Will Remain Independent

Written on
August 2nd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – HTML5 rich media creation and distribution platform Sprout has been acquired by InMobi, but will continue to operate as an independent company. Sprout made some noise last year when it added the ability for its Engage Ad platform to serve the same creative in either Flash and HTML5 to [...] more...

Adobe & MediaMind Offer Codes for Rich Media Functionalities

Written on
February 22nd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Imagine a library you could peruse while designing display ads that showcased all the coolest and newest rich media tricks. When you found the perfect fit — say an augmented reality tool — you could simply grab a code and insert it into your draft ad. While we’re fantasizing, [...] more...

The Sad State of Self-Serve Advertising

Written on
January 27th 2011
Author
Myles Younger

ADOTAS – When Canned Banners launched its self–serve banner ad builder in January 2010, I thought we were entering an innovative self-serve advertising market that was only going to get hotter. Everyone would be jockeying to replicate the multi-billion-dollar success of Google’s self-serve AdWords system. But as I write this, the [...] more...

Microsoft-Adobe Merger or Mobile Alliance?

Written on
October 8th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Although Microsoft’s Silverlight is a rival to Adobe Flash, the CEOs of the two company had a very hush-hush meeting the other day, setting the rumor mill aflame with talk of a merger. Investors liked the idea, so Adobe shares skyrocketing 12% yesterday, but my immediate impulse was to [...] more...

Free to Share Your Canned Banners

Written on
September 15th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words does that make a Flash-based banner ad worth? And is it enough to convince a client to dive in into a mound of impressions? Canned Banners’ updated version of its self-serve display ad creation platform contains a tool [...] more...



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