VideoWeek

MAY 21, 2025

Six months ago, mobile ad tech business AppLovin overtook The Trade Desk in market cap, knocking the demand-side platform (DSP) from its perch at the top of the ad tech stock market; a position it has enjoyed since 2017. Trading places At the same time, ad tech giant The Trade Desk was running into problems of its own.

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Martech Series

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Let’s look at the key ad tech trends for 2023 and examine the opportunities and challenges ahead. With the digital space and ad tech evolving rapidly, there is always one force that has the power to draw the attention of everybody in the industry: Google. Google initiatives. First party data reliance.

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Ad Monsters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In the ad tech ecosystem, the Black ad ops and rev ops professionals who impact your brands, and thus the industry as a whole, are a part of Black history and should be celebrated. For Black History Month, AdMonsters is celebrating just a few Black professionals making history daily in ad tech.

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Digiday

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Related Insights Google on Trial Decoding the jargon behind Google’s antitrust ad tech trial: a glossary for the confused Read More The U.S. Sign up for Digiday newsletters to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV. DFP’ and ‘AdX, et al. debated extensively ( see right ).

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Exchange Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the dynamic world of digital advertising, media companies must integrate tools and platforms into their internal workflows that can adapt flexibly to the ever-changing demands of ad management. The post Multi-Ad Server Integration: goTom Now Shares Flights Across Multiple Ad Servers appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Anyone in ad tech can tell you that the industry has been dreading the deprecation of third-party cookies and what that shift will mean for how they do business. How we target individuals with relevant ads will change. The question remains: How can publishers execute direct media transactions at scale?

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Ad Monsters

APRIL 8, 2025

Many ad tech professionals fell into this industry by chance. But Bobby Noble, now Disneys VP of ad operations, says that, for him, it felt like a natural evolution. By the time Noble left Uproxx for Hulu in 2018, he was in charge of overseeing revenue management, including pricing, planning, ad operations and product.

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PubMatic

JANUARY 11, 2024

Test automation scripts then cover all the underlying SDK features, including open measurement SDK (OMSDK) compliance, mobile rich media ad interface (MRAID)/Interstitial/Banner ads, StoreKit Ad Network (SKAdnet), privacy compliance, callbacks, ad events, reporting, and ad rendering.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Nine industry leaders share insights on the DOJ’s proposed remedies and what they could mean for digital advertising and ad tech. Targeting its ad tech empire, the other could redefine the ad ecosystem. ” “For Android, a divestiture might slow Googles mobile ad dominance.

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Digiday

OCTOBER 12, 2023

After all, managing your own ad server isn’t budget-friendly or a simple endeavor. However, as the saying goes, nothing valuable comes without effort, and an ad server is undeniably valuable to a certain type of advertiser — the type that can’t see a way forward without one. “We

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Digiday

MARCH 19, 2023

Sources said outcomes could include the streaming service overhauling its relationship with Microsoft, which has powered Netflix’s ad tech. Sources familiar with Netflix’s early conversations suggested they were a precursor to the streaming giant eventually building or buying its own ad tech.

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AdExchanger

MAY 5, 2024

Ad frequency is a problem at the campaign level, where CTV viewers can be exposed to the same ad creative across different media channels/streaming platforms well beyond […] The post Fixing CTV Ad Repetition Means Understanding How Ad Tech Enables It appeared first on AdExchanger.

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VideoWeek

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Ad tech business Mediaocean today announced it has agreed a deal to acquire Innovid, a specialist in converged TV advertising, for $500 million. Mediaocean says it will merge Innovid with Flashtalking, the ad server it bought back in 2021, also for $500 million.

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VideoWeek

JUNE 8, 2022

Smart Adserver, a publisher-focused ad server and supply-side platform (SSP), has today announced it is rebranding to Equativ. The move comes as Smart Adserver fully combines with LiquidM and DynAdmic, two ad tech companies it acquired in 2019 and 2021 respectively. Independence and SPO in the spotlight.

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VideoWeek

JUNE 15, 2022

Reuters reported on Monday that Google has offered to open up access to YouTube for third-party ad tech companies, as part of a settlement for an ongoing EU antitrust investigation. For example, a bill was recently proposed in the US Senate which would force Google to divest its ad tech business.

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More About Advertising

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Microsoft is buying AT&T’s ad-tech business, Xandr, subject to regulators, to boost its connected TV offer. Xandr, named after AT&T founder Alexander Graham Bell, includes both demand and sell-side platforms and an ad server.

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Digiday

JANUARY 3, 2023

Not only can this form of advertising be turned off and on with relative ease compared to linear TV, he continued, it’s also well placed to grow as ad dollars are shifted over to channels, platforms, and media owners that can guarantee more bang for the buck. Even so, few would have pegged ad tech.

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Paleo AdTech

DECEMBER 10, 2023

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. The company was acquired by Engage , a CMGI Company, for $193 million in 1999, right before the dot-com bust.

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Paleo AdTech

JANUARY 25, 2022

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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VideoWeek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The judging panel of media, tech and creative specialists were highly impressed by the creativity, innovation and technological advances in video and CTV advertising on display this year. Entrants were drawn from Europe’s leading brands, agencies, broadcasters, publishers, platforms and technology companies.

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Digiday

APRIL 11, 2023

Competition in ad tech is ratcheting up, especially among supply-side platforms as leading lights in the sector jostle for differentiation, or even just “stickiness.” Earlier this month, multiple sources told Digiday that Magnite was exploring the option of bypassing DSPs by forging direct relationships with media agencies.

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Digiday

JULY 21, 2022

Although since those inquiries, certain details have emerged with Insider reporting that revenue guarantees — these usually played a key role in winning RFPs during the early days of ad tech — from rival contenders were “underwhelming” (Google’s included), a sign that Netflix wants revenue, and fast.

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More About Advertising

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The programmatic ad wars have taken an interesting turn with ad blocker Adblock Plus setting up its own ad server, seemingly (at one point) with the connivance of Google and AppNexus, which both have their own whopper servers. The news was announced by third party ComboTag, yet another ad tech firm.

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VideoWeek

JANUARY 26, 2023

The filing accuses Google of monopolising the ad tech stack, neutralising its competitors and violating the freedom of the internet itself, recommending the ad tech business be broken up in order to restore competition. Decoupling the ad server from the exchange will open up the supply chain for more competition.

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Digiday

JANUARY 22, 2023

to Disney’s media properties and more than 100 million U.S. household-level IDs, she added. We’re at 35% right now, and that’s before the full integration of all of these [ad products and services from Hulu],” she said. Disney’s ad server already powers 100% of Hulu’s and Disney+’s ad platforms in the U.S.,

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Martech Series

JUNE 21, 2022

Investment expands global data and media agreements for multiple years, and provides advertisers leveraging the Tremor International platform with access to exclusive, premium content. Partnership between a leading tech platform, OEM and OS is rare in the CTV landscape. Tremor International Ltd., Tremor International Ltd.,

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VideoWeek

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this week’s Week in Review: Altice Europe considers selling ad tech business Teads, the Premier League revamps its TV rights auction, and UK digital publisher revenues show continued growth. The telco is expected to sell most of its media assets due to an ongoing fraud investigation in Portugal.

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Exchange Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Nexta, a leading provider of Ad tech solutions to scale personalised advertising, today (December 7th, 2023) announced the launch of its new retail media solution. The post Nexta Announces its New Retail Media Solution & Partnership With Danish Retailer Dagrofa appeared first on ExchangeWire.com.

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Ad Monsters

MAY 22, 2024

Melissa Bonnick, Executive Director, Head of Programmatic, Paid Media Tagging & Trafficking, JPMorgan Chase, leverages her extensive ad operations expertise at JP Morgan & Chase to drive brand safety and foster inclusivity in the media industry. Starting her journey in media with a Journalism degree from St.

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Digiday

MAY 8, 2023

Supply-path optimization, or SPO, has been one of the key themes in ad tech in recent years, as demand for more efficiency sets in and the curtain closes on ad tech’s initial halcyon days. ’ Well, that’s a pretty significant barrier,” he added.

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Ad Monsters

MAY 23, 2022

Publisher ad ops teams handle and manage various critical tasks within their organizations, such as trafficking, programmatic management, inventory management, technical campaign and ad tag troubleshooting, and so much more. The digital media industry is constantly innovating, growing, and changing.

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Martech

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How Jagran New Media doubled video ad revenue with a managed AdOps service. Jagran New Media, a leading publishing house in India, had a revenue problem. 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. “The

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VideoWeek

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On day three of Google’s ad tech antitrust trial, Judge Brinkema asked witness Jed Dederick, CRO at The Trade Desk, about the advantages to buy-side and sell-side players of Google’s scale and concentration of data. But spun off from Google, the ad server would have less value, again making it hard to find a buyer.

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Martech Series

JUNE 22, 2022

Exclusive integrations have maximized working media for publishers and enabled GroupM clients to realize incremental value across omnichannel media buys including CTV, digital video and display. As a result, a series of top-tier media owners are now participating in the offering several months after its launch.

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Ad Monsters

AUGUST 22, 2022

The ad tech industry is packed with several solutions (such as header bidding , A/B testing, etc.) to help publishers optimize their ad revenue. One such solution is ad refresh, which is considered advantageous by a lot of publishers yet there is some skepticism around using it due to its controversial nature. Summing Up.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The dawn of digital media promised a brighter future, where we eventually could look at every sale and determine which touchpoints were effective at delivering ROI and which were wasted spend. Types of media measured. Let’s dig a little deeper into what these platforms do. Data modeling and analysis.

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TechCrunch Ads

MAY 26, 2022

“The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition. . “The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition.

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