The digital media and advertising landscape is staggeringly complex. In the milliseconds it takes for a web page to load, dozens of companies you probably have never heard of are bidding in a furious auction to serve you an ad. And that’s just one area: programmatic advertising. The investment bank LUMA Partners, the company known

The New York ad tech community has a billion-dollar company at last, and it’s Brian O’Kelley’s AppNexus after all. Weeks after rumors linked Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba to an investments, AppNexus has announced a new late-stage funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion, nearly doubling the valuation of the company from its last

LinkedIn just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Bizo (B2B Display Ad Platform), a company that helps advertisers reach businesses and professionals. LinkedIn says the deal is worth around $175 million — 90 percent cash and 10 percent stock. Bizo spun out from business directory ZoomInfo back in 2008. It raised a

Facebook has just bought video ad tech startup LiveRail, which connects marketers to publishers on web and mobile to target 7 billion video ads to visitors per month. Facebook paid $500 million for LiveRail. Facebook did say it will invest in keeping LiveRail running and is evaluating how to intermingle their data, but it plans

Google gives publishers the ability to run display and text ads on their sites. They can run both styles of ads, or just pick a single one. The same goes for advertisers, who also have to choose between one of these two formats for their ads. The company is launching a new ad unit that brings

A cool Infographic that I came across. (if you wish to view this in a larger scale – Click Here)

UK trade bodies representing advertisers, publishers and the ad tech sector have laid down guidelines on viewable ad impressions in a move designed to introduce viewability as a media trading standard for the first time. The IAB, as of 15 of April, 2014; published standards stating that 50% of pixels must be in the viewable

Yahoo has launched a unified advertising solution that makes it more efficient for agencies and media buyers. The refreshed platform combines display and premium ads with native and search placements in a manner that its business customers will find “friendlier”. Currently, there’s a hypothesis that in order to purchase ads for online placement, the process

Display ad exchanges have traditionally set out to solve a particular pain for advertisers: fragmented access to display ad inventory. Exchanges allow advertisers to buy ad inventory from a single source, an ad exchange, rather than engaging independently with each of the disparate underlying ad networks and publishers. Until now the onus of selecting the