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Forrester’s SSP Report Released

Written on
January 3rd 2012
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Forrester Research issued its long-awaited Forrester Wave Report on sell-side platforms today. (This announcement comes three weeks after the research firm released its 2011 report on demand-side platforms.) According to a statement from Forrester, the company applied 34 criteria to the platforms it looked at, including current offering, strategy [...] 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...

Welcome Aboard: McDonald to PubMatic, Irvine to Vibrant

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October 4th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Supply side platform PubMatic has found the exact right fit for the new role of president: Kirk McDonald, previously president of Digital for Time. Before his tenure at Time, McDonald served as chief advertising officer of the Fortune|Money Group. Prior to that, he did some time at Microsoft, [...] more...

Google Might Dominate Display With Admeld in Pocket

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June 10th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Google has made it well known for a while that it aims to rule the online display space, which Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt said could reach revenue heights of $200 billion (up from the $50 billion estimate Google’s display team hit me with last year). The [...] more...

PubMatic Reels in Revenue Optimizer ReviNet

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May 17th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Big fish eat the little ones, even in the sell-side waters. Publisher revenue optimizer PubMatic has acquired ReviNet, adding the 57 brand-name publishers that use the Boston company’s services to the PubMatic portfolio. Some of the names you just might recognize: The Christian Science Monitor, A.H. Belo, Boston [...] more...

PubMatic Offers Pubs Easy Access to Third-Party Data

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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...

Delivering Value in a Multi-Platform World

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April 4th 2011
Author
Chris O'Hara

ADOTAS – If there is one thing I learned after spending several days at Digital Publishing Summit 2011 in Deer Valley, Utah, it’s that the people in this industry really love what they do. It’s not easy walking past world-class spring skiing in what is arguably the United States’ best [...] more...

Admeld Passed on Google Acquisition

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February 14th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – It’s become the fashionable thing to turn down a Google acquisition offer: Mark Zuckerberg brushed off Big G’s offer for Facebook years ago, Twitter reportedly balked at a puny price, Yelp said forget it and even Groupon stuck up its nose (though after its Super Bowl ad debacle, a [...] more...

RTB Finally Getting Some Standards

Written on
December 14th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – There are few things that will bring fierce industry rivals together at a table for discussion, but one is certainly standards. Corralling the largest players in the ultra-competitive display-side platform and supply-side platform spaces, the OpenRTB initiative aims to develop real-time bidding standards for automating publisher and advertiser guidelines. Participating in [...] more...



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