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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...

Answers Served: isocket Brings Programmatic Buying to Class 1 Inventory

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October 5th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Real-time bidding has proven pretty swell for the automated buying of remnant inventory, but what about premium? Can’t programmatic buying be introduced so media buyers can pick and choose from Class 1 stockpiles through their DSPs and other tools? Or is that merely a pipe dream? No, says isocket, [...] more...

Report: Ad Networks Raking in More Display Spend

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September 30th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Pretty assured in the belief that ad networks are on the decline? Well, the second annual Online Advertisers Survey Report from Econsultancy and supply-side platform The Rubicon Project suggests quite the opposite, with networks receiving an average of 55% of the average media plan compared to 31% cited [...] more...

Answers Served: AdSafe Predicts Ad Performance Through Engagement Quality Ratings

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September 27th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Is it possible to verify a placement before the impression is even bought? Well, no, but AdSafe Media is pushing the conventional boundaries of ad verification to veer into predictive analytics with its new Engagement Quality Ratings. Designed for all types of media-buying including RTB, the ratings inform advertisers pre-bid the likeliness of [...] more...

Yahoo!-AOL-Microsoft: Little Collaboration Necessary

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September 26th 2011
Author
Russell Glass

ADOTAS – There’s lots of buzz in the industry about the Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL collaboration recently announced. By all accounts, this is an effort to catch up to and compete with the Google display advertising juggernaut. When I first heard the announcement, I was dubious. Like tying the [...] more...

CONTEXTWEB Joins Forces With Datran to Form PulsePoint

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September 23rd 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – After partnering for more than a year, Datran Media has merged with CONTEXTWEB to form new company PulsePoint. Datran Media is home of  audience targeting and measurement platform Aperture, while CONTEXTWEB operates the ad exchange once known as ADSDAQ. Blending these technologies, the integrated platform will offer a blend of [...] more...

ad pepper Infuses Semantic Targeting Into New RTB Platform

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September 9th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – While audience targeting and buying is getting more attention than a non-threatening teenage boy who sings in a very high register, I’m always looking further down the road. For a while I’ve been pondering when contextual targeting will make a big comeback, and discussing concept-based targeting with NetSeer [...] more...

Answers Served: Opera Dishes on Mobile Ad Exchange

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September 6th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Norwegian software developer Opera may be best to the Internet public as the makers of a suite of desktop and mobile browsers, but the company’s offerings for advertisers and publishers run much deeper, especially on the mobile front. Last January, Opera acquired mobile advertising company AdMarvel, which powers its [...] more...

Casale Opens Premium Exchange for Elite Pub Base

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August 12th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Basically joining the private exchange cause, Casale Media has opened up CasaleX, imbuing its 3,000 hand-picked premium publishers with the power of real-time bidding. Casale pubs will be able to select what and how much inventory they want to offer to selected DSPs and trading desks through the [...] more...

Modern Online Ads Can Lead to ‘Black Swans’ for Brands

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August 3rd 2011
Author
Byrne Hobart

DIGITAL DUE DILIGENCE – If there’s one way to sum up the resurgence of display advertising compared to search advertising in the last few years, it would be this: Display is finally a market. Like a financial security that can be split, swapped, sliced, diced, packaged, unpackaged, and hedged, ad [...] more...



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