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Investment firm North Equity has amassed a portfolio of established media brands like Popular Science, Field & Stream and Saveur with a few new media upstarts mixed in, including The Drive, Task & Purpose, Donut Media and MEL Magazine. In 2021, North Equity launched Recurrent Ventures as its media division. Its CRO, Matt Young, spoke with AdExchanger about Recurrent’s acquisition strategy, its ambitions in CTV and gaming and why the company is prioritizing its private marketplace business to reduce its reliance on open web programmatic.

Oath is switching things up within its ad and platform executive ranks. The company has named Tim Mahlman president of advertising and publisher strategy, Oath revealed Tuesday. Mahlman replaced Bob Lord as president of AOL’s platform business in June 2016 and has manned AOL’s publisher and ad platform strategy since. Rohit Chandra becomes head of […]

Yahoo’s new parent, Oath, will have to make do without one of the acquired company’s key ad platform executives. BrightRoll CEO Tod Sacerdoti is exiting the video demand-side platform and exchange he founded in 2006, according to a source with knowledge of the company. Yahoo bought BrightRoll for $640 million in 2014. An unconfirmed number […]

  Oath is having its coming-out party in Cannes. On Monday, AOL executives officially launched Oath at the advertising festival in Cannes, following the close of Verizon’s $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo last week. The execs also clarified lingering questions about how it will integrate assets from AOL and Yahoo into Oath’s pending ad tech […]

Kellogg’s has teamed up with Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS), Moat and Yahoo’s BrightRoll to measure how factors in video advertising like “time in view” and “audibility” affect purchases. For each set of exposures Kellogg’s bought using BrightRoll, Moat provided metrics around player size, time spent and whether the video’s sound was on or off. Nielsen […]

Verizon won’t complete its $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo until next year, but that hasn’t stopped speculation about which pieces of ad tech will come along for the ride. As Yahoo and AOL built their respective ad stacks to serve publishers and advertisers over time, obvious crossovers have occurred. So what’s complementary, what’s redundant and […]

Programmatic native ads are now available on the BrightRoll Exchange, opening up access for advertisers beyond Yahoo’s owned-and-operated properties. “We’re offering all third-party RTB buyers access to native inventory,” said Tod Sacerdoti, Yahoo VP of display and video ad products, on stage at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference in New York City on Wednesday. The upshot: […]

Yahoo doesn’t have a fraudulent traffic problem, a company leader said Friday. Tod Sacerdoti, VP of display and video ad products and the founder of Yahoo’s video ad exchange BrightRoll, was responding to a CNBC report late last week, which claimed widespread fraud in Yahoo’s ads business and sales “ineptitude” as responsible for the downfall of […]

If a turnaround story is going to fly, it’s got to take off at some point. But Prashant Fuloria, Yahoo’s SVP of advertising products, is preaching patience. “The reality is that this is a multiyear transformation, and our long-term trajectory will not be defined by a single quarter,” Fuloria said. Speaking of quarters, the results […]

First there was Right Media. Then there was the Yahoo Ad Exchange. Now there’s BrightRoll. Yahoo started off Advertising Week on Monday with the announcement that it had consolidated all of its programmatic ad tech under a single umbrella – the BrightRoll brand. The purple platform has been on a bit of an ad tech spree […]

Digital automation may increase the volume of video ads initially, but improvements in targeting and cross-screen frequency caps will drive more relevancy while ultimately reducing the overall ad load. It’s no surprise that data and technology are upending the upfront TV buy. Following a two-year slump in advance upfront commitments, Forrester expects advertisers to combine scatter, […]

Specs and standards aren’t that sexy, but industry experts say the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s recent video addendum to rich media standard MRAID could be one of the keys to unlocking more programmatic mobile video dollars. MRAID is a mobile standard, used by many publishers and app developers, to render and serve mobile rich media programmatically. […]

It’s been 100 days – give or take a day – since Yahoo bought the video demand-side platform and exchange BrightRoll for $640 million, and BrightRoll CEO Tod Sacerdoti has been busy. BrightRoll on Wednesday revealed it’s baking Yahoo audience demographic and behavioral data into BrightRoll’s DSP, which the company claims will enrich ad-targeting capabilities […]

Yahoo is buoying its push to be a mobile player with a mobile dev suite, revealed Thursday at the company’s first-ever mobile developer conference – but the products, and Yahoo’s plans, are highly contingent on an important factor. Will developers see the value in Yahoo’s app-monetization tools? Flurry’s SDK now includes demand from both Gemini, […]

This is what Yahoo’s been cooking ever since it snapped up Flurry in July – a mobile developer suite made of five new and enhanced mobile products. And these are the top-line takeaways: Gemini native ads and video ads from BrightRoll are now available via the Flurry SDK. And comScore will integrate with Flurry to let developers […]

Video demand-side platform (DSP) TubeMogul posted Q3 revenue of $27.4 million, up 112% from $13 million during the same period last year. Total advertiser spend through its platform was $62.5 million, up from $25.7 million last year. TubeMogul stock was up 6% in late trading. TubeMogul gained considerable business via its self-serve model “Platform Direct” used by […]

Yahoo’s ad stack had been under a microscope, as CEO Marissa Mayer sought ways to appease shareholders and prove she had reached “parity” at last with competing ad tech stacks. On Tuesday, Yahoo’s announcement that it would acquire video demand-side platform (DSP) BrightRoll for $640 million enhanced this portfolio. “We now have scale with Flurry […]

Yahoo will indeed acquire BrightRoll, a video ad network turned platform company, as TechCrunch first reported in October. (See the release). The transaction, priced at $640 million, fires up Yahoo’s ad tech strategy after a dry spell when the company’s M&A was focused primarily on consumer-facing mobile platforms. It also provides a partial answer to those wondering […]

The state of programmatic TV: A patchwork of parts that need to come together in order to automate the broadcast ad buy. During a panel at Programmatic I/O in New York Wednesday, David Cooperstein, CMO of Simulmedia; Brent Horowitz, VP of business development at BrightRoll; Derek Mattsson, president and CEO of placemedia, Amanda Richman, president, Starcom USA […]

With video ad tech deal activity surging, independent players must decide whether to go it alone, brave the impending volatility of public markets or sell. Facebook acquired video supply-side platform LiveRail for an estimated $500 million in early July. Yahoo one week later snapped up video distribution platform RayV, which answered some questions about its […]

Video ad platform BrightRoll is looking long-term. In the words of Tod Sacerdoti, its founder and CEO, “we’ve been focused on building an alternative stack to Google for a long time.” And BrightRoll’s got just the man to do it. Barely a day after it brought on DoubleClick vet Bruce Falck as COO to scale […]

Before traditional, linear television ad buys can be fully automated, a couple of core constituents must align. “The [idea of programmatic] doesn’t entirely make me nervous, but it definitely needs boundaries and guidelines,” said Phil Lalonde, SVP of ad sales operations, MTV Networks, recently at a BrightRoll Video Summit. Rob Holmes, VP of advanced advertising at […]

RockYou is clawing its way back. The 8-year-old company, which once produced social games, was one of the first MySpace and Facebook third-party app developers until it suffered a major data breach five years ago that exposed unencrypted user account data of more than 32 million users. That wasn’t RockYou’s only struggle. The company couldn’t […]

While both programmatic buying and online video are in vogue, the best way for these two to come together—in the opinions of both publishers and brands—is through private marketplace buys. Programmatic video ad platform BrightRoll has seen 50% of the top 50 publishers engage in private marketplace deals, said company founder and CEO Tod Sacerdoti […]

Conventional wisdom holds that real-time bidding (RTB) transactions should occur within 60-to- 100-milliseconds. As more bids compete for impressions in the open RTB ad auction environment, lower lag time between various computing outputs means higher bid completion rates. Consequently, reducing latency is a large consideration in developing RTB algorithms. Some RTB players like AppNexus address […]

Video is a big part of the programmatic ad discussion taking place at New York’s Advertising Week. A recent look at the landscape by Jeffries & Co. finds that early players like Tremor and YuMe have certain advantages in the short term. But the time is nearing when the majority of video advertising will be […]

In a sign that programmatic video buying is becoming more essential, IPG’s Magna Global has chosen video ad marketplace operator Adap.tv as its preferred partner. The deal comes a day after cereal marketer Kellogg turned to BrightRoll to help spearhead its programmatic video plans. Magna, which is the research and buying arm for the IPG […]

The open-source collaboration formed by video demand-side platform TubeMogul last spring to promote an industrywide standard for viewability keeps adding members, but the group is still grasping at definitions that all its members can agree on. In the meantime, a number of key video ad-tech players, namely Tremor Video and YuMe, remain committed to developing […]

When Innovid CEO Zvika Netter co-founded the interactive video ad-serving company in 2006, he and his partners thought they would be the advance guard that would witness the demise of the pre-roll format. Innovid would replace that model with its customizable, targeted iRoll product, which allows viewers to hit a button within a digital video […]

A survey of 300 advertisers and agencies commissioned by video ad platform BrightRoll and Canada’s IAB suggests that 2013 is the “breakout year” for that country’s video marketplace. Spending on digital video is up 42% from 2012, and 41% of Canadian agencies expect to spend “half or more of their video-related ad budgets on  programmatic […]