Yahoo Ad Network Rolling Out Publisher-Friendly Features

Even though ad exchanges and networks were created to lubricate the buying and selling of digital ad inventory, the system is still far from slippery. One lingering issue is that of transparency: when online publishers can’t sell all their inventory directly to advertisers (often at a premium), they list the leftovers on an exchange. But if buyers know they can snap up exchange inventory—at a likely much lower price—they won’t agree to the direct deals up front. Publishers lose their premiums, CPMs go down, and everyone shakes their heads at digital’s failure to launch. That's why digital publishers have begun to introduce transparency controls into their exchanges, allowing them to sell leftover inventory without revealing their identities. Yahoo!’s Right Media, one of the web’s largest RTB exchange platforms, will try quell those complaints for its partners with the introduction of a new set of publisher-friendly tools. The company, which services 250,000 publishers and up to 60,000 advertisers, announced today that it would give sellers control over what inventory they’re selling, at what price, and at what level of visibility. “All of these controls will give publishers more comfort in leveraging RTB as a capability and more effectively manage yield,” said Ramsey McGrory, head of Right Media and VP of North American marketplaces. Features like transparency controls aren’t new—most ad networks offer some sort of tool to provide such options to publishers. That doesn’t... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2011-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]

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