“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CafeMedia. Ads.txt has been a standard for several years now and has become something that we take for granted. That’s a good thing, as it speaks to […]| AdExchanger
The traditional publisher waterfall, where impressions are exposed to sales channels in descending order of the perceived value of each channel, has always stuck in the craw of yield-obsessed media sellers. At its worst, the model ignores pockets of high-value inventory and reduces competition, and thus artificially caps a publisher’s revenue. Publishers have by […]| AdExchanger
In a major change to its Double Click for Publishers ad server, Google will bring in the real-time bids of a publisher’s outside exchange partners to its dynamic allocation product. The feature addresses a key problem that led to the rise of header bidding, essentially doing away with Google’s previous policy where it only allowed […]| AdExchanger
The recent history of digital advertising is full of ad networks that have pivoted, or are trying to pivot, away from the withering RFP trade. Some have become demand-side platforms or analytics tools geared to advertisers and agencies. Fewer have positioned around the publisher. Family run Casale Media is in that smaller group. Founded in […]| AdExchanger
Google held a meeting Thursday with its top publisher partners to discuss numerous new product changes, collectively called “unified pricing,” that could upend publisher strategy and leave them with less control over their ad inventory. It soon got heated. Multiple publishers in the group, whose attendees included The New York Times, News Corp, Dotdash, Watson […]| AdExchanger
One cruel irony of the news business is that news stories drive immense value and earnings – just relatively little for the news publisher.| AdExchanger
The ad tech antitrust trial against Google begins today in Alexandria, Virginia. Who's on the stand and what will Google argue?| AdExchanger
Google is beta testing a solution within DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) that will allow publishers to bring in high-value impressions before reserved inventory in their ad server. Jonathan Bellack, Google’s director of product management, made the announcement at the IAB Ad Operations Summit on Monday during a discussion about header bidding that pitted Google (anti-header […]| AdExchanger
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The DOJ and Google faced off in a 10-week trial.| The Verge
