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TVs Say Goodbye, Online Advertisers Say Hello

Written on
May 16th 2011
Author
Anupam Gupta

ADOTAS – According to the latest Nielsen Report, the number of TVs in homes across America dropped for the first time in 20 years. While nearly 97% of American households still have a TV, it is clear that consumer habits are changing. Americans now use their laptops, and increasingly tablets, [...] more...

MediaBank Buoys Agency Systems and Marketplace With AdBuyer Acquisition

Written on
April 28th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – “They are the incumbent, we’re the disruptor,” MediaBank CEO Bill Wise tells Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider while announcing the acquisition of DSP AdBuyer. “They” would be Donovan Data Systems, chief supplier of multi-channel – online and offline – media-buying tools for agencies for the last four decades or so. MediaBank is [...] more...

YuMe Takes Video Campaigns From One End to the Other

Written on
October 18th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The days of piecemeal video campaigns through multiple companies are numbered, as YuMe just introduced ACE for Advertisers, which chauffeurs a video campaign from start to finish. Built on top of YuMe’s ACE video platform, which serves more than 1 billion impressions monthly, the end-to-end solution hits all the [...] more...

Determing the Right Level of Online GRPs

Written on
October 14th 2010
Author
Jay Friedman

ADOTAS – As Goodway Group rolled out our online GRP (gross rating point) tool, the first nine out of 10 questions we received centered around understanding what the right level of GRPs actually is for online. As with almost everything else related to online, rather than citing theory, there is [...] more...

The Three Media That Matter

Written on
July 9th 2010
Author
Ernie Mosteller

ADOTAS – In the South, we use the word “tizzy” to mean: simultaneously frantic, worried and confused. As in: “Mama’s in a tizzy because the cake’s burnt, and MeeMaw’s coming for dinner.” Since the widespread adoption of cable TV, Tivo and like technologies; and increasing exponentially since the emergence of the [...] more...

Quick Hits: Geek Consolidation and YuMe’s Support System

Written on
May 14th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The geek world has been too fragmented — it’s about time for geek consolidation. Fortunately Geeknet — publisher of sites such as ThinkGeek, SourceForge and SlashDot — has started the process with the purchase of tech enthusiast site Geek.com for $1 million. In addition to expanding the publisher’s [...] more...

Agencies: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Written on
March 9th 2010
Author
Mark Kahn

ADOTAS – A recent meeting with a large agency’s digital planning team left me wondering who is doing the real work these days: agencies or ad networks? I was there to talk about our solution for making sense of an increasingly crowded and complicated digital space. Today’s media planners and [...] more...

Centro Relieves Media Planner Woes With Transis

Written on
March 1st 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The slide starts off innocently enough with a Playmobil-esque character surrounded by white space. Pretend this is a media buyer, says Shawn Riegsecker, president and founder of local media buyer Centro. Assume she has to reach out and send RFPs to 15 different publishers — 15 smaller Playmobil characters [...] more...

TRAFFIQ’s New Adventures in High Findability

Written on
February 9th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS TRAFFIQ, says CEO Mark Kahn. “The Internet has become with a 300-channel world, how do you find what you’re looking for?” Upgrades to TRAFFIQ’s platform are getting closer to answering that question with channels. The improvements are two-fold — for media buyers, TRAFFIQ has souped up its proprietary attribute matching [...] more...

Real-Time Will Redefine Media-Buying Efficiency

Written on
February 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Media buying is inefficient, says Forrester Consulting, and it can’t keep up with the swelling volume of online inventory. However, the real-time process, now in the experimental phases, will improve efficiency dramatically by 2011. AdMeld commissioned the firm to study real-time media buying and its effects on the various [...] more...



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