The “Newfronts” online advertising sales period that to be kicked off by Digitas and its outside partners next month is going to have some added competition apart from the traditional TV upfront marketplace. Adap.tv, the digital video sales platform, has formed its own Upfront Marketplace as it seeks to automate the entire process for securing […]
Mark Trefgarne is Co-Founder and CEO of LiveRail, a video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Let’s start with a little background on you. How did your consultancy lead to video advertising technology? MT: We started LiveRail about four years ago, which came out of a consulting company that I was running in London. The founding team […]
For years, the television world has pivoted on the use of a reach and frequency metric known as the Gross Rating Point, a.k.a. the GRP (Wikipedia), for the buying of advertising time. As TRAFFIQ’s Eric Picard points out in a 2009 iMedia Connection article, “This currency enables immense substitutability of inventory, meaning that there is […]
Content delivery network Limelight Networks announced last week its new Limelight REACH Interactive platform which the company claims “helps publishers, agencies and advertisers create ‘tappable’ pre-roll and post-roll in-stream video ads, which open coordinated microsites.” Read more. Jonathan Cobb, GM and CTO of Limelight’s Mobility and Monetization Group, discussed the announcement and its implications. AdExchanger.com: […]
Yesterday, online ad technology firm MediaMind was acquired by DG (formerly DG Fastchannel) for $414 million. Read more coverage. We asked a selection of ad industry participants their views on the following question: “What are the implications of yesterday’s acquisition of Mediamind by DG?” Click below or scroll down for more: Atul Patel, CEO, OneScreen […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Levinsohn Speaks On Yahoo! All Things D’s Kara Swisher interviews Yahoo! Americas EVP Ross Levinsohn, who says that the company gets a raw deal. On the content/media side, Levinsohn said that Yahoo! needed to develop a voice and move beyond its aggregation days. On […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Booming In EU The results of the latest IAB Europe survey show that in 2010, display continues to grow. From the release: “With an average growth rate of 21.3%, Display overtook Search advertising as the fastest growing online ad format in Europe. Search, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Undertone Sees Video Ramp In another private company earnings release of sorts, ad network Undertone says that its business is booming and offers up the following in a press release: “A year-over-year increase in video advertising revenue of more than 400 percent; a video […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Landscape On Display In an article in The Wall Street Journal, The WSJ’s Emily Steel looks at the big, digital ad ecosystem and says, “Seeking to milk the huge growth in online advertising, a rush of technology firms have emerged in recent years pitching […]
If you’re trying to read more than 1,000 pages of legal documents about the US v. Google ad tech antitrust case on Election Day, you’ve come to the right place.
While WaPo recently lost 250,000 subscribers due to concerns over its journalistic independence, NYT added 260,000 subscriptions in Q3 thanks largely to the popularity of its non-news offerings.
Stop thinking about brand safety verification as “insurance” – a way to avoid undesirable content – and start thinking about it as an opportunity to build positive brand associations, says Kenvue’s Mark Proulx.
Google hit some impressive revenue benchmarks in Q3. But investors seemed to only have eyes for AI.
Ad revenue grew 56% YOY even without some of Reddit’s shiny new ad products, including generative AI creative tools and in-comment ads, being fully integrated into its platform.
Freestar adopted a new approach to curation developed by Audigent that gives buyers a priority lane to publisher inventory with higher viewability and attention scores than most open-auction inventory.
