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Yandex, Russia's leading search engine, is testing a Real-Time Bidding model for its display advertising. It is a based on typical RTB technology—that is, it is an auction-based system for selling and buying ad impressions. Currently, participants include Yandex.Direct, the company's ad serving system, and myThings, which has become the first affiliate to work with Yandex. travel.ru, forumhouse.ru, newsr  [...]

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RTB Gets its Own Mobile Auction Site

MoPub, the mobile advertising startup founded by former AdMob and Google employees, has launched a real-time bidding auction place for mobile ads. Called MoPub Marketplace, it is a self-service platform that connects app publishers with ad buyers. MoPub points to its optimization algorithms as a market differentiator, saying they are designed to maximize revenue for publishers across both iOS and Android devices. It is als  [...]

Macy's Leads the Way in Department Store Social Media

Macy’s took the top spot in NYU’s Luxury Lab’s think tank’s annual Digital IQ Index, which ranks specialty retailers according to their online competence. It is a surprising finding until one considers that department stores in general have been stepping up with social media strategies, the survey said, according to Woman’ Wear Daily. The average  [...]

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The Private Ad Exchange Concept Gains Momentum, Taking RTB Along For the Ride

Technorati Media's partnership with AppNexus to create a private ad exchange is the latest in a series of such ventures, giving momentum to this concept. Over the past several months, traditional media companies, including NBCUniversal, CBS and IDG introduced their own private exchanges, Adweek   [...]

Microsoft Ad Exchange Open for Business. Again

Microsoft has unveiled the latest iteration of the Microsoft Advertising Exchange, which is now integrated with the AppNexus real-time bidding (RTB) platform. It previous platform, AdECN, is now officially retired. Microsoft is positioning the exchange as offering better advertiser ROI via its premium assets - a category that   [...]

Is In-Game Mobile Advertising Here? Tap Me Says Yes. A Wealth of Anecdotal Evidence Says No.

Tap Me has unveiled an in-game mobile advertising platform that it says solves two problems that have hampered the mobile gaming ad market to date: it will make ad insertion easy and the ads will non-disruptive to players. Certainly the details of the offering as described by Tap Me sound promising.   [...]

Boarding Passes: Another Variation of Online Ads

Ryanair is partnering with London-based Ink to sell ads on the one piece of paper that no traveler can afford to overlook: a boarding pass. The strategy, described in the Wall Street Journal, borrows from current travel advertising techniques in that the travelers is targeted based on his or her route an  [...]

The Deflating Value of a Facebook Fan; Now at $1.07

A consumer who became a fan on a brand's Facebook page via an ad is worth about $1.07. At least that is what the cost of advertising is to the brand to attract said fan, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal of new data from Webtrends. The report has generated much digital ink as it also showed that the   [...]

TargetSpot's $8M Round of Funding Indicates Big Brands' Belief in Online Radio

TargetSpot will soon be expanding its network and growing its national sales force, thanks to a new round of $8 million in equity funding. The funds will also be used to fuel investments in the company’s advertising technology, according to the company. The fundi  [...]

Soup to Nuts Guide to Changing Ad Formats

Earlier this year MSNBC.com introduced a site design - a 'single-page' format. The goal, it said, was to be able to sell large, customizable ads, with advertisers offered the choice of as many as 30 different combinations. Banner ads, though, were not among them. It was, in the eyes of the ad industry, the final nail in the coffin for the much-maligned banner ad. After years of being ignored by consumers, online publishers   [...]

Real Time Bidding: The Sleeper Ad Technology Growth Story

At least half of all targeted ads will be bought using real-time bidding technologies within five years, predicted Neal Mohan, Google's VP of product management at the Mixx Conference in New York. That has been Google's experience with DoubleClick, which has seen its real-time advertising triple in the past year. Particularly hated by privacy advocates, real-time bidding lets advertisers target audiences by individual impressions via auctions. Advertisers get access to consumers based on thei  [...]

OfferMobi Nudges Industry Along Cost-Per-Action Path

OfferMobi is claiming to be the first to sell cost-per-action ads on mobile devices - a format that has long intrigued media buyers with its clear value of only paying when a consumer makes a purchase. Advertisers, though, have been leery of the model, fearing it could lead to diminished revenues. So far, according to OfferMobi's head Mark Roth those fears haven’t been realized. "We've already got revenue. We've got traction. We have got people conv  [...]

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