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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. Only Ad.com was better at this kind of tactic, says Dave.

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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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33. Nancy Marzouk – taking a DrivePM through L90 and [x+1]

Paleo AdTech

NYC-based Nancy started as an artist and environmentalist and landed at a family-owned ad network called AdVenture Network, an early proponent of open plan office space for sellers. She was introduced to L90 when the network approached them to use their ad serving technology, and Nancy’s joined the hard-driving sales team at L90.

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Best Guide to Display Lumascape [2023]

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At first glance, it seems like Pandora’s box but it is simply a digital map that classifies each and every entity in the ad tech ecosystem. Having emerged from its roots, the programmatic ad tech sector has greatly evolved into an ecosystem in itself. Display Lumascape’s components are as follows: Ad Agencies.

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33. Nancy Marzouk – taking a DrivePM through L90 and [x+1]

Paleo AdTech

NYC-based Nancy started as an artist and environmentalist and landed at a family-owned ad network called AdVenture Network, an early proponent of open plan office space for sellers. She was introduced to L90 when the network approached them to use their ad serving technology, and Nancy’s joined the hard-driving sales team at L90.

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Google’s FLEDGE lacks momentum 4 months into trials, offers ‘limited focus’

Digiday

Barely four months after launch, trials of Google’s version of cookieless retargeting are stuck in first gear. Only five ad tech vendors have expressed an interest in testing the FLEDGE, or the “ First Locally-Executed Decision over Groups Experiment ,” to date. In this scenario, Google picks the final ad.

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Ad tech’s journey on the public markets is approaching its awkward adolescence

Digiday

The latest trench of earnings calls for digital, or ad tech, companies whose stock is traded on the public markets were a mixed bag. So, what of the ad tech sector? Albeit what’s clear is that the days of unfettered growth are firmly in the past as the media sector braces itself for austerity. million), and 28% ($101.3

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