• Meet the Top DSPs

    MediaMath, Turn and DataXu come out tops in Forrester’s first evaluation of the burgeoning market for demand-side platforms. But according to analyst Joanna O’Connell, the industry remains filled with too many pretenders.


  • Microsoft on the Big Ad Deal

    Dave O’Hara, Microsoft Advertising’s COO, explains seemingly contradictory tenets of the Microsoft-Yahoo-AOL deal and points to the fact that Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, is still in the process building its tech arsenal using its sizable war chest.


  • The Privatization of Web Privacy Policing

    Protecting consumer privacy, particularly with regulators exerting pressure, is something all in online advertising pay lip service to, but some ad buyers and networks complain the industry-endorsed system that relies on for-profit companies isn’t fair.


  • Ad Tech’s Simplification Challenge

    MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki thinks the endless debate over ad tech clutter misses an important point; sometimes ad tech really delivers. CEOs want results and they don’t care that CMOs find the alphabet soup of technologies hard to keep track of. Have marketers forgotten about the bottom line in a quest for simplicity?


  • Explainer: Big Data Analytics

    Big data isn’t just about online clicks and sales in digital advertising. An emerging field of analytics is pulling offline data from multiple sources and merging it with online metrics to create more holistic attribution models than ever before.


  • What’s Microsoft’s Ad-Tech Strategy?

    It’s crunch time for Microsoft. Media buyers like VivaKi have publicly challenged the company to prove its commitment to building its display ecosystem and some industry figures have mocked the announcement as too little, too late.


  • The Outsider

    Brian O’Kelley isn’t a household name, but he is a pioneer in ad technology, and he has contributed to significant changes in the media business. What’s next in his second act?