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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: 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...

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...

The New Display Ecosystem, Part I: A Few Words on HYPE

Written on
July 20th 2011
Author
Mike Nolet

ADOTAS – It’s been four years since I wrote one of my most popular series of blog posts of all time — “The Ad Exchange Model” (part 1, part 2 and part 3). Since then a lot has happened. A whole slew of three letter acronyms has appeared: DSP, SSP, [...] more...

Welcome Aboard: Pub Vet Edmund-Jones Joins Rubicon

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July 1st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Publishing industry veteran Nigel Edmund-Jones has joined revenue optimizer The Rubicon Project as director of publisher services. Edmund was last seen at Haymarket Consumer Media, where he was in charge of the day-to-day business for online display advertising trafficking, systems and operations. Joseph Epstein is the new chief marketing officer [...] more...

Google Might Dominate Display With Admeld in Pocket

Written on
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...

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...

RTB Finally Getting Some Standards

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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...

Media Mixers: Rubicon Slurps Up Excitement, Cocktails

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November 8th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Publisher platform The Rubicon Project was the talk of ad:tech NY last week, mainly because the company announced the purchase of the Fox Audience Network on Monday, Nov. 1. All the chatter brought an impressive crowd to the company’s cocktail party last Thursday at the Penthouse Lounge, which [...] more...



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