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A Pubmatic Server Anomaly, $1 Billion CPMs, and a Complicated Programmatic Ecosystem

Ad Monsters

A spokesperson for the SSP said that the anomaly occurred at one of its US data centers, causing publisher ad servers to receive abnormally high CPMs on a limited number of impressions. ” The Butterfly Effect is strong even in ad tech. The error lasted for 40 seconds on March 15 and had by then been resolved.

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47. Larry Braitman – fishing for dot-com dollars with Flycast

Paleo AdTech

Larry Braitman was co-founder of Flycast, a dot-com-era digital ad network known for its direct-response focus, lower entry costs for advertisers and publishers, relative ease of use and optimization, and explicit embrace of what the Wall Street Journal called remnant (or unsold) inventory. AdReporter — measurement tool.

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47. Larry Braitman – fishing for dot-com dollars with Flycast

Paleo AdTech

Larry Braitman was co-founder of Flycast, a dot-com-era digital ad network known for its direct-response focus, lower entry costs for advertisers and publishers, relative ease of use and optimization, and explicit embrace of what the Wall Street Journal called remnant (or unsold) inventory.

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How Jagran New Media doubled video ad revenue with a managed AdOps service

Martech

They’d been relying on ad networks to manage outstream video — mobile-only ads that appear on partner sites and apps outside of YouTube — on their websites. We experienced very high discrepancies between our ad server and the network ad server, which was a consistent issue.”.

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

Paleo AdTech

Part 2 of an ongoing conversation with Brian O’Kelley , one of the most influential people in the last two decades of ad tech. He led the technology team at Right Media that launched the first real exchange for ad networks. The company grew over 11 years to 1,000 employees and was sold to AT&T for $1.6 billion in 2018.

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Server Side Header Bidding & taking the hybrid approach?

Monetize More

This revolutionary technology, which traditionally takes place on the client side/browser, paved the way for publishers to maximize their revenue and generate the most income possible from their programmatic ad inventory. Client-side header bidding does not face the same problem since the cookies are stored in the browser.

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

Automatad Inc.

Preferred exchanges: Preferred exchanges facilitate the buying and selling of ads at a fixed price with preferred advertisers. Publishers sell their ad inventory to selected advertisers at a negotiated fixed price. This type of deal guarantees high CPM and is suitable for websites with very high digital footfall.