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

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Video Ad Servers vs Display Ad Servers: Use Both or One?

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Some estimates claim that it will overtake all other digital ad formats in just a few years. There are many different ad servers available to the publisher, but they cannot all handle video ads effectively. Video ads require high-bandwidth, dedicated servers to handle high traffic levels and load times for these ads.

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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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Disney plans to extend Hulu’s ad targeting options to Disney+’s ad tier

Digiday

The extension of Hulu’s ad products and services to Disney+ is the latest showing of Disney’s push to unify its back-end ad tech operation as the company seeks to automate 50% of its ad sales — a goal that Ferro said Disney is on pace to reach this year. That’s the beauty of having everything on the same ad server.”

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Should I run AdX only, Header bidding only or both?

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Run them both together, Ad Exchange and header bidding. With Ad Exchange and Header Bidding competing in a publisher’s ad stack, all your ad inventory is ensured to be monetized as efficiently as possible. AdX, short for Ad Exchange, is an advertising marketplace and programmatic platform developed by Google.

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Disney strikes a big adtech deal with The Trade Desk as Disney+ expands into ads

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The news comes in advance of Disney’s launch of an ad-supported tier for its flagship service, Disney+ , which would likely be another such target of such a deal. Automation allows Disney to sell more ads at scale and accelerates the company’s goal to target more of its overall pool of first-party data.

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Explain This to Me…Best of AdMonsters Decoder 2023

Ad Monsters

Every now and then, a new ad tech term, acronym, or technology pops up, and we’re all fishing around trying to figure out what the hell they mean. That’s why we created our explainer series, so we can keep you up to date on the newest ad tech trends and fads. This is the place for you.