DataXu, provider of the industry’s no1 ranked DSP today (10 Jan 2012) announced that it had acquired Europe’s leading DSP platform Mexad.Read our Q&A on the thought process behind the decision and more with DataXu’s Vice President of Marketing Jule Ginches below.Rumor has it, DataXu's technology was originally developed for…
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Offering further proof of how much online display technology is inspired by the financial industry, Legolas Media announced numerous agency partners, including Horizon Media, on board with its audience futures marketplace. Employing a complex algorithm that incorporates 10,000 data points regarding audience targeting, Legolas enables publishers to sell guaranteed inventory…
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My grandfather was my idol growing up. A man of conviction, intelligence and balance, he was my blueprint for personal and commercial success. While he said many things that I use for personal guidance every day, regarding business he once said, “Vikram, you need to build something. It’s all well…
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OPS Markets in London on February 9 is the place to get involved in the discussion. Right now there’s no hotter topic in the operations community than Privacy and the impending hammer coming down attached to the ePrivacy Directive. OPS Markets London at Grange Tower Hill will feature a panel…
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As we tick away the final days of 2011, hopefully you're planning your New Year's Eve party and not stressing out about yield management in 2012. Over here at AdMonsters, we're pondering the year to come for the ad operations community, and the first step is to examine what happened in…
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Recently the AdMonsters Professional Services team – Kevin LeFew, Zach Morgan and I – had the opportunity to head down to Charlottesville, Va., to speak with a class at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Having spent my college years at UVA (and McIntire, in particular), I jumped…
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2011 represented a turning point for the consumer web, having brought fundamental changes to how information is stored, shared, and transmitted and to how individuals communicate and connect. To date, bandwidth, storage limits and user access points have suppressed the potential of a web-enabled world. Those barriers have melted away,…
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It was a cold time in early spring 2007, but a hot time for the ad tech market. Yahoo! was buying Right Media, Google was acquiring DoubleClick and Microsoft was scooping up AdECN and aQuantive. Major media companies were making big bets – $850 million, $3.1 billion, $6.1 billion – to…
Read MoreI've heard from numerous publishers that they are regularly overbooked when it comes to video ads; some ad ops teams are actually seeking out ways to drive more video traffic on their sites. Overbooking has become an unwanted trend as video exploded this year ($2 billion in spend!), but the…
Read MoreOnline video ad spending is expected to grow more than 43% next year, but even rapid adoption and eager ad buyers can’t overcome the complexity of multiple video ad formats. This crazy patchwork quilt of formats has been suffocating video, as the nascent industry leaps ahead of standards. Luckily, the…
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