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

Paleo AdTech

Too small to interest PE and “laughed off of Sand Hill Road” by the VC’s, as Mike tells it, Interclick engaged in alternate financing of a later-trendy type, pulling off a proto-SPAC. ” Margins were tight, which served them well during the recession of 2008-09 and set up an uplisting to Nasdaq in 2009.

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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: Vice to Shutter Website, Google Expands GenAI in Performance Max, and FuboTV Sues Sports Streaming JV

VideoWeek

However Gemini’s image generation capabilities came under scrutiny this week, after examples popped up on social media of the AI model creating images with odd, historically inaccurate racial diversity. 1 this week announced they will combine their ad tech offerings in efforts to bolster the German ad market.

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