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35. Michael Katz – double-clicking on InterCLICK and Yahoo

Paleo AdTech

To accommodate a team of refugee Microsoft engineers, Mike and the team moved to Florida for a year and returned home with their own ad serving technology, allowing them to segue off Santa Barbara-based Fastclick’s ad serving tool, called AdServer , which competed with DoubleClick and Atlas.

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35. Michael Katz – double-clicking on InterCLICK and Yahoo

Paleo AdTech

The startup’s clever innovation was to sell anti-popup ad software downloads via popup ads, which were then ubiquitous and often alarming, like this one on the Fastclick ad network that looked like a legitimate warning message but wasn’t: Pop-up ad on Dribbleglass.com via Fastclick ad network (circa 2002).

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The WIR: Altice Explores Teads Sale, Premier League Revamps Rights Auction, and UK Digital Publisher Revenues Show Continued Growth

VideoWeek

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. Altice acquired the ad tech firm in 2017 for €285 million.