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30. Dave Zinman – on the first ad server, BlueLithium and beyond

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Dave co-founded a company while at Stanford Business School that built the first demand-side ad server, and he later went on to develop products at pioneering powerhouses such as BlueLithium, Yahoo, InfoLinks and Drawbridge. In 2006, Dave joined the team as SVP/GM at BlueLithium, a high-flying ad network. ”

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30. Dave Zinman – on the first ad server, BlueLithium and beyond

Paleo AdTech

Dave co-founded a company while at Stanford Business School that built the first demand-side ad server, and he later went on to develop products at pioneering powerhouses such as BlueLithium, Yahoo, InfoLinks and Drawbridge. Mango, the tropically-named motherboard for FocaLink’s proto-ad server. ”

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5. Paul Bannister – gamer turned prophet for the publisher

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CafeMom was ad-supported from the beginning, and from his perch at the ever-growing network Bannister saw the development of ad servers, ad networks, SSPs, DSPs and header bidding. Today he is Chief Strategy Officer for CafeMedia , a company based largely on the acquisition of AdThrive in 2018.

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34. Andrew Casale – from Casale Media to Index Exchange

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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. ” Andrew and The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green in 2018, discussing UID

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What Every AdOp Team Needs to Know About ScamClub’s Malicious VAST & VPAID Attacks

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ScamClub’s Sophisticated Attacks These scams are the work of ScamClub , a persistent and well-organized crime ring group that has been plying malvertising schemes since 2018. Step 3: Server-Side Fingerprinting. Once the script finishes fingerprinting the client, it proceeds to the server-side fingerprinting phase.

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

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He led the technology team at Right Media that launched the first real exchange for ad networks. billion in 2018. It included a predictive ad server that optimized based on effective CPM (eCPM), equivalent to CTR x CPA, requiring the clever use of a Bayesian algorithm to predict response rates to ads.

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34. Andrew Casale – from Casale Media to Index Exchange

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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. ” Andrew and The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green in 2018, discussing UID.

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