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Judge Tosses Flash Cookies Suit Against Specific Media

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April 29th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Another page is turned in the Flash Cookies saga. Yesterday a federal judge dismissed a suit against Specific Media over its use of Flash Cookies after determining the plaintiffs had no legal basis to support their claims. Last August, six web users filed suit against Specific Media in the [...] 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...

Wunderground Redesign Woos Advertisers

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February 3rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Early spring, the groundhog proclaimed, and we New Yorkers snorted as we slipped and slided our way through an ice storm. People in Chicago were too snowed-in to comment. Groundhog Day also marked the launch of the redesigned Wunderground (short for Weather Underground) site, the self-proclaimed David facing The Weather [...] more...

C Is for Cookie, and Cookie Is Forever

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October 12th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The New York Times doesn’t ask developer Samy Kamkar if a million MySpace friends was worth three years of probation, the sentence he received after he unleashed the infamous Samy Worm, which infected and crashed MySpace in 2005. That’s ’cause his latest little toy, the evercookie, is far [...] more...

Quick Hits: AdXpose APIs, Q Interactive’s Media-Buying Extension

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February 25th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – MPire, makers of advertising verification and optimization technology AdXpose, have introduces a series of APIs that allow ad agencies, networks, exchanges and demand-side platforms to integrate AdXpose campaign data and tools into existing technology platforms rather than separately use the AdXpose reporting portal. – Digital Agency Q Interactive has [...] more...

Quantcast Takes Pride in Being #3

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February 18th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Sure, everyone’s heard of that Facebook thing and I guess Google is still sorta cool after all these years, but Quantcast — that’s the up-and-comer to keep your eye on. Standing tall behind Facebook and Google, Quantcast took the title of third-most innovative web company of 2010 from Fast [...] more...

Quantcast looking to raise funds

Written on
July 9th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — The audience measurement service, which recently launched a targeted ad platform that helps advertisers define and buy audiences online, wants to raise $50 million in funds. According to peHub, the San Francisco-based provider of online audience analytics is looking to raise around $50 million at a $300 million pre-money [...] more...

Quantcast Wants Its MTV

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November 5th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Quantcast is aiming to help help herd, quantify and monetize MTV’s disparate Internet audience. The open direct-measurement service announced that MTV Networks will deploy Quantcast solutions across its online portfolio in a bid to enhance its ability to quantify unique audiences and ultimately deliver greater value to its [...] more...

Why Did Yahoo’s Teresi Jump to Quantcast?

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August 21st 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Yahoo’s erstwhile senior vice president Todd Teresi has jumped ship to join Web metrics shop Quantcast. Teresi joins Quantcast as its chief revenue officer. Many are wondering: why would a Yahoo vet of 10 years, most recently as the leader of its network biz, jump to a startup [...] more...

Hyper-Local CitySquares Fastest-Growing Search Site

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August 21st 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – The hyper-local search site, CitySquares.com, has become the fastest-growing search site, Quantcast reports. It’s also the premiere hyper-local search site in New England, New York City and eastern New York State. Currently, the site has more than 500,000 users and hope to reach 1 million by September. Since expanding [...] more...



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