Doug Burke is General Manager of FatTail, an online advertising technology company. AdExhchanger.com: How did FatTail begin? DB: FatTail formed in 2001 to apply the tools and technologies of financial trading systems to the data rich world of online advertising. The founding team, which continues to lead the market’s innovations, had extensive experience in advanced […]
Today, PubMatic announced that it is offering a next rev in its publisher-side yield optimization platform which notably includes “guaranteed inventory yield management” and possibly puts it into competition with Yieldex, which has been working the direct sales optimization side for publishers for a while now. See the release. AdExchanger.com spoke to PubMatic’s CEO Rajeev […]
In a release today, AdMeld announced “the introduction of Real Time Bidding (RTB) capabilities in the United Kingdom” through its partners AdJug, AppNexus, Infectious Digital, Invite Media and MediaMath. Read more. AdExchanger.com corresponded with AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett about the news … AdExchanger.com: Are you aggregating UK publishers and selling their inventory? Or, are you […]
Janneke Niessen is CEO of Improve Digital, a publisher yield optimization firm based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: How did Improve Digital begin? Publishers are facing a shift in the online advertising ecosystem where performance campaigns, ad networks and exchanges are playing a more and more dominant role. In 2007, over 40 percent of the […]
Paul Edmondson is CEO of YieldBuild, a yield optimization company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe the momentum you’re seeing at YieldBuild. For example, how many participating publishers are a part of your optimization offering these days? We’re really happy with our growing publisher base. While we want to respect our publishers’ privacy, we can say that we […]
Kum Bay Yah, Muh Lord. Kum Bay Yah. Congrats to the IAB on their lunch and learn event, “An Out of the Box Lunch with AdMeld, PubMatic, The Rubicon Project and YieldBuild,” in NYC last Thursday. It was a study in how players in the advertising space – in this case, yield optimizers – can […]
It’s that time again – let’s predict the future! One of the key areas in which technology is affecting online media is in publisher yield optimization. In little over a year, companies like The Rubicon Project, AdMeld, PubMatic, YieldBuild and others have solidified the position of the yield optimizer in the online display advertising ecosystem […]
Tom Shields is Chief Executive Officer of yield optimization company, Yieldex. AdExchanger.com: How many participating publishers? TS: We have announced Martha Stewart Omnimedia as our first publisher partner. We are currently engaged with a number of other large publishers that we are not publicizing yet. What is your target publisher market? Can any publisher participate? […]
Those crazy yield optimizers are at it again! Or, are they really ad exchanges waiting in the tall grass? First up, Yield Build. The company led by CEO Paul Edmondson has launched a new premium text ad network for publishers that optimizes Google AdSense ads in combination with somewhat exclusive Microsoft PubCenter ads and produces […]
Ben Barokas is co-founder and chief revenue officer at New York City-based AdMeld. AdExchanger.com: How many participating publishers does AdMeld have? Ben: AdMeld has about 50 publisher customers, including The Huffington Post and WorldNow. The rest are comprised of a variety of big names which we can’t talk about publicly just yet, but hope to […]
