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UK finally opens antitrust probe of Google’s role in the adtech stack

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“The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition. “The CMA is also concerned that Google may have used its publisher ad server and its DSPs to illegally favour its own ad exchange services, while taking steps to exclude the services offered by rivals.”

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40. Brian O’Kelley (part 2) – the Right Media experience

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billion in 2018. Over the next year, Brian developed a relationship with Phillips and began to believe he could deliver a performance-based ad server that was un-gamable, as DoubleClick Media Networks’ had been so spectacularly in the deft hands of RM co-founder Mike Walrath.

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What is RPM (Session, Page and Ad RPM)

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Also, find out more about the difference between page views and impressions here: [link] RPM RPM is a common metric that most advertising platforms such as ad networks and ad servers use. It represents the cost the advertiser will pay for every 1,000 ad impressions served on a publisher’s website. in ad revenue.

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28. Bill Wise – accounting for the rise of Right Media and more

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(For more on this Brobdingnagian player, check out our interviews with co-founder Kevin O’Connor , his sidekick-successor Kevin Ryan and my own thankfully brief exposition of the original DoubleClick ad serving patent. He would have a direct marketer, preempting General Motors. It was hysterical.”

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34. Andrew Casale – from Casale Media to Index Exchange

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.” Carving out some space in an office belonging to his father’s other business, consulting for e-commerce sites , Casale Media hired six engineers, built a “primitive ad server” and worked hard on a more publisher-friendly buying platform. We [will] outlive the cookie.”

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40. Brian O’Kelley (part 2) – the Right Media experience

Paleo AdTech

billion in 2018. Over the next year, Brian developed a relationship with Phillips and began to believe he could deliver a performance-based ad server that was un-gamable, as DoubleClick Media Networks’ had been so spectacularly in the deft hands of RM co-founder Mike Walrath.

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Marketers weigh the cons of working with Google Ad Manager amid Justice Department’s new lawsuit

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The DoJ is demanding divestiture of Google’s sell-side advertising assets, or the Google Ad Manager suite, including both Google’s publisher ad server (DFP) and its ad exchange (Adx). Here’s the short version: Google’s sell-side tools are the target. In some cases, they’ve even acted on those concerns.