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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. CMGI itself was a dot-com sorcerer with a peak market cap of $41 billion and a portfolio of innovative Web 1.0

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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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Supply Side Platform (SSP): What Is It and How Does It Work?

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Demand-side platforms (DSPs) are similar to SSPs, with one key difference—DSPs are made for marketers and work from the other end of the business transaction. While publishers use SSPs to list inventory to make it available programmatically to DSPs, marketers use DSPs to buy that same inventory from those ad exchanges and ad networks.

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Passendo Appoints Harry Charalambous As Head Of Demand & International Growth

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Award-winning email ad server and SSP Passendo has appointed Harry Charalambous as Head of Demand & International Growth to help shape its go-to-market strategy globally. I’m passionate about this industry, and helping clients to revolutionise their go-to-market strategies.”.

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

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This is the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) second probe of Google’s adtech practices — after it said it would investigate an ad deal between Google and Facebook referred to internally as ‘Jedi Blue’, back in March.

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What Is Ad Exchange and How Does it Work – A Guide for Publishers

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It is an open marketplace that runs auctions in real-time, connects the publishers with wider demands, and gets the best price for the ad inventory. On the other hand, it connects the advertisers with the ideal publishers for their ad campaign and gets the best ad slot. They offer various user-friendly ad formats.