At Internet Week in NY, Turn announced it's new data management platform (DMP), called the Turn Audience Platform. According to the press release, the platform, "integrates Fortune 500 brands and leading advertising agencies into the industry’s first open ecosystem for audience targeting, enabling them to discover and connect with the…
Read MorePart 1 of 3: Importance of targeting smaller advertisersA majority of online publishers primarily focus their ad sales efforts on agencies and large brand advertisers via their direct sales force. The cost of operation for this sales channel often requires them to set a minimum ad buy per campaign. In conversations…
Read MoreAll the hype in the display advertising industry has been around real time bidding for the last several years, and rightly so. Finding audiences with precision (cheaply) is marketing nirvana and, with all of the startup companies willing to work their tails off to make their “platforms” work for advertisers,…
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Every day worldwide people are inundated by an ever-increasing amount of information. And the problem grows worse each year. An April 2011 survey of 200 respondents conducted by Magnify.net pulled back the curtain on our digital lives. Nearly 50% of respondents reported that they were connected to the internet “from the…
Read MoreEditor's note: Rob Beeler's blog post originally appeared on ClickZ.As part of my job, I do my best to keep an ear to the ground and keep track of what operations people are talking about. Amazingly enough, it's 2011 and issues like late creative and discrepancies still pop up. Being…
Read MoreIt seems like every week or so, we get to read another headline about a publisher launching a private exchange on someone’s real-time bidding (RTB) platform. Some would have you believe that private exchanges are a technological marvel; the greatest thing for publishers since the printing press. I want to…
Read More"Private Exchange" is probably the only buzz word in the industry right now without a TLA. That’s almost a crime considering the huge potential they offer to both publishers and advertisers. Much has already been discussed about their proposed value prop for publishers—greater control over inventory prices and ability to…
Read MoreProximic recently named Rodney Mayers as their Senior Vice President, Business Development. Previously Mayers was the COO of Adify. In the press release Mayers said, "Proximic has developed some of the most compelling technology I have seen in the online advertising space in a very long time." We asked Mayers…
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From Cost Center to Profit CenterFor any company that deals in digital advertising, ad operations is where the rubber meets the road. No matter how great the revenue opportunity, no matter how sweet the deal—no one profits until ops moves the ball over the goal line. And the faster, smarter,…
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Today OpenX announced the release of a new platform, OpenX Enterprise, which is a Software as a Service hosted ad management solution with new capabilities for managing different channels of inventory and product in one tool. Read the release. According to OpenX, this is a departure for the company and…
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