The native advertising programmatic gold rush is on. Following the emergence of a handful of native ad networks came yesterday's announcement that the startup TripleLift was launching a native ad exchange with several top brands and publishers. Now comes another native ad exchange—albeit this one from perhaps an unexpected source. The new company, Bidtellect, is coming out of Domain Holdings, a top domain name broker. The company has tapped veteran digital media entrepreneur Lon Otremba as its CEO. (Otremba previously ran the social gaming firm Tylted). Bidtellect is the brainchild of John Ferber, who along with his brother Scott co-founded Advertising.com in 2004. Otremba and Ferber said they've built a new tech platform that can help brands buy native ads in an automated fashion, at scale. That contradicts much of the conventional wisdom surrounding native ads, which depending on your definition could include branded entertainment videos, advertisers tweets or custom produced pseudo articles—things that are seemingly hard to buy in bulk. "Based on the history of this business, when a medium can rapidly scale is only when advertisers can buy that way. That’s when things really take off," said Otremba, who argued that most existing solutions have focused on publishers, not brands. Otremba claims to have signed up several big brands and publishers to test Bidtellect. The company just won't say who. It has started testing its version of native ads on generic domains... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Online publishers like CBS and Forbes are selling the tiny ads on their Web sites, rather than letting a third-party network promote teeth whitening and herbal remedies. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forbes is launching an ad platform that combines the Forbes Media Network with a new audience segmentation effort called FAST and offers custom units that blend advertising with content according to user preferences. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viewing ads in exchange for service could help monetize "occasionals" and "fly-bys"--which represent a much larger part of a publisher's audience than hard core users. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The hype might suggest that many citizens of the iPhone-loving world have adopted ebooks for their literary needs, but Kimico is betting there are still plenty... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2011-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Lisa Campbell A complaint against a W H Smith advert for the Richard and Judy Book Club has not been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. The television broadcast, promoting the husband-and wife teams exclusive deal with W H Smith to run Richard and Judys Book Club,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While it may not apply to overall advertising budgets, "big" was in for individual ad pages that ran in MPA member magazines in 2010. According to data collected by MagazineRadar, high-impact ads that ran on heavy stock were up 19 percent in 2010 and the actual ad size increased as well: the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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