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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. Before joining Deputy, Dave was COO of Drawbridge from 2018 to 2020, through its acquisition by Microsoft.

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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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‘Some will close their gates, others will open to programmatic’: Ofer Druker on the future of CTV

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Nexxen CEO and industry veteran Ofer Druker explains how the company’s new identity was conceived to reflect its end-to-end platform — it has an ad server, demand-side platform, and supply-side platform — and expertise in video.

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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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63. Jason Fairchild – developing GoTo, OpenX and tvScientific

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Jason was the co-founder with his fellow Yahoo veteran Tim Cadogan of OpenX, a pioneering ad server and then programmatic exchange that launched in 2008. Today he is co-founder and CEO of tvScientific , a CTV-oriented programmatic platform. GoTo (then renamed Overture) was acquired by Yahoo in 2003 for a reported $1.8 They were wrong.

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63. Jason Fairchild – developing GoTo, OpenX and tvScientific

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Jason was the co-founder with his fellow Yahoo veteran Tim Cadogan of OpenX, a pioneering ad server and then programmatic exchange that launched in 2008. Today he is co-founder and CEO of tvScientific , a CTV-oriented programmatic platform. GoTo (then renamed Overture) was acquired by Yahoo in 2003 for a reported $1.8 They were wrong.

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Kargo Acquires CTV Platform VideoByte as Part of Major Video Expansion

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Marketing Technology News: MarTech Interview with Gabie Boko, CMO at NetApp Founded only 2 years ago in 2020, VideoByte has already become a major presence in CTV and OTT with integrations across major media companies including Viacom, Tegna, LG and others.