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Ad Exchange News Links for Wednesday, February 18
Recent ad exchange-related news… these articles point to the growing importance of performance display advertising. The display ad is definitely not dead. The Wall Street Journal’s Martin Peers looks at the weak demand in internet advertising and harps on social media being partly the cause of over-supply of inventory. Nick Gonzalez takes Peers comments further […]
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Belo Reports Revenue and Integration on Yahoo!'s APT Platform
During today’s conference call, A.H. Belo Corporation (AHC) which closed at a precarious $1.81 per share today and better known as owners of major regional and local newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, reported that they have integrated their newspaper sites fully onto Yahoo!’s APT platform and are realizing revenue. Unfortunately, it’s not enough […]
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Loathing Ad Networks Sponsored by the OPA
This past week, iMedia’s semi-annual, pay-to-play, U.S. Brand Summit featured sponsored content from the Online Publishers Association (OPA), led by Pam Horan, which was intended to persuade brand marketers and, consequently, agency media buyers that there was no “future” like the “single site buy future.” The OPA’s argument goes something like this: “Sure, Ms. Brand […]
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Yieldex Brings Inventory Optimization To Martha Stewart
Another player joined the yield optimization space today which currently includes Pubmatic, Rubicon Project and AdMeld. Yieldex announced that the first client for its “BusinessIQ” inventory management product is Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. According to the release: “The Yieldex BusinessIQ product provides accurate revenue, inventory and availability forecasting; eliminates manual spreadsheets, increases transparency of data […]
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Where's AOL Platform-A's Exchange? BidPlace SB?
After a commenter asked about BidPlace’s URL, we noticed that the URL for Platform-A’s new ad exchange business, BidPlace SB, has evidently been established or removed depending on what you believe in Google’s cache. http://www.bidplacesb.com/ Today’s Google Cache of BidPlaceSB.com. As of today, the site looks to be under construction. The footer in the cache […]
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The New Dirty Word in Advertising: Exchange
Let’s get it out in the open. Exchange is the new dirty word for agencies and advertisers – and even a few exchanges. Many advertisers and their agencies are running scared of exchanges these days as concern persists about brand safety and low quality remnant media. The most successful of the exchanges (arguably), Right Media, […]
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Ad Exchange News Links for Friday, February 6
Here’s a recap of recent ad exchange-related news: Mediaweek’s Mike Shields finds evidence that ad networks and exchanges are doing better than expected in Q1 2009. Traffiq ad exchange CEO Mark Kahn adds that ad agencies appear to be planning a month ahead of time as opposed to a year ahead of time. In a […]
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When Worlds Collide: GroupM Undermines The Agency Model
Like rats following the pied piper into the East River of New York City, Rob Norman’s GroupM believes it knows best when it comes to its clients’ future – and the future is closed. Are the lawyers in charge over there or what? This is it, people – the end of the agency model as […]
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Ad Age Wonders if Blind Networks Can Save Web Ads?
It’s true. Dinosaur marketing and advertising publisher, Advertising Age, suggests that “blind networks” may be able to save “premium” content publishers and their CPMs. Hallelujah. Examples of Ad Age saviors include Short Tail Media and Brand.net with Yahoo!’s former Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Elizabeth Blair, and the former Vice President of Global Pricing […]
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Web Publishers of the Future: Ad Traders on the Exchange
Publishers of large, “premium” content websites are starting to wonder: “How are we going to survive? Are we ever going to make the CPMs, revenues and margins that we’re used to?” Today, tons of advertising inventory is going unsold and being allocated to ad exchanges and networks. And, the advertisers with budgets are eating up […]
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