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Confiant Catches Cookie Fishing Scheme: The Bad Actors of Black Friday

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Last year, Black Friday saw another big boom — cookie stuffing — marking a sharp increase in fraudulent ad impressions. Confiant found a cookie-stuffing campaign running across multiple programmatic ad platforms around Black Friday. What is Cookie Stuffing? Partnering with ad platforms.

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34. Andrew Casale – from Casale Media to Index Exchange

Paleo AdTech

Index itself was born in 2015 out of Casale Media, an ad network that Casale founded as a teenager around the turn of the millennium with some help from his father, an electrical engineer. Thus did he sort of “fall into” ad tech. We [will] outlive the cookie.” “You know what’s funny?

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34. Andrew Casale – from Casale Media to Index Exchange

Paleo AdTech

Index itself was born in 2015 out of Casale Media, an ad network that Casale founded as a teenager around the turn of the millennium with some help from his father, an electrical engineer. Thus did he sort of “fall into” ad tech. We [will] outlive the cookie.” “You know what’s funny?

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31. Steve Latham – taking an Encore at Flashtalking

Paleo AdTech

Steve was the Global Head of Analytics at Flashtalking , which acquired his advanced ad measurement company Encore Media Metrics in 2016. Then last July 2021, Mediaocean acquired Flashtalking for a reported $500 million, and Steve decided to “pull the pin” on his army-of-one and leave ad tech after a 20-year tour of duty.

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51. Wes Nichols – measuring the impact of MarketShare

Paleo AdTech

Wes was the co-founder with Jon Vein of the marketing and media analytics platform MarketShare, founded in 2006 and sold to Neustar in 2015 for a reported $450 million. Wes Nichols (in pink) and Jon Vein, co-founders, frollicking at Cannes in 2015. Wes is currently a Partner at March Capital, based in L.A., How did MarketShare work?

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52. Ana Milicevic – managing data from Demdex to Sparrow

Paleo AdTech

Within two years, Adobe acquired Demdex and folded it into its emerging ad tech and data suite as Adobe Audience Manager, which persists to this day. She founded it in 2015 with her sister, Maja, an ad tech vet (AppNexus, Sovern). Expanding into audience-building for media made sense.

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52. Ana Milicevic – managing data from Demdex to Sparrow

Paleo AdTech

Within two years, Adobe acquired Demdex and folded it into its emerging ad tech and data suite as Adobe Audience Manager, which persists to this day. She founded it in 2015 with her sister, Maja, an ad tech vet (AppNexus, Sovern). Expanding into audience-building for media made sense.

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