Programmatic Buying

PubMatic (http://www.PubMatic.com), the digital media platform company for publishers, today announced that Larry Harris has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). A seasoned advertising and digital marketing executive, Harris has led integrated marketing and branding programs for Microsoft, Bank of America, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Intel.

Earlier this week, digital media agency Exact Drive and display ad design platform Canned Banners announced a partnership to offer marketers a one-stop solution for launching and managing dynamic display ad campaigns. The service increases the performance and precision of display ad campaigns by personalizing ad creative in real time for each viewer. We've asked Myles Younger, Canned Banners Co-founder and Head of Marketing & Business Development, to give us more insights into the current display advertising market, the challenges and opportunities for SMBs and long tail advertisers.

AOL [NYSE: AOL] announced the beta launch of the AdLearn Open Platform (AOP), an extension of Advertising.com’s current AdLearn technology that will allow clients to manage, optimize and analyze online marketing campaigns from one central platform. The platform provides digital marketing professionals with complete access to the robust AdLearn optimization technology, real-time bidding (RTB) capabilities, massive reach and premium inventory.

Adap.tv, the company that provides a programmatic way to plan, buy, sell and measure television and video advertising, is partnering with European real time bidding (RTB) pioneer, BannerConnect (www.bannerconnect.net). The move will rapidly expand the reach of RTB for video across Europe.

PubMatic (http://www.PubMatic.com), the digital media platform company for publishers, today announced PubLink, the enterprise app marketplace for publishers. PubLink is a set of open APIs and pre-packaged integrations that enable publishers to use PubMatic’s strategic selling platform as a single point of integration to access partners and services in real time.

We are focused on our real-time bidding environment solutions. With this integration, our clients have the ability to utilize our pre-bid decisioning solution. Additionally, we are developing a solution that will evaluate and tie many different measurement metrics to provide practical and actionable guidance for the ad buyer and seller.

Adap.tv, the company that provides a programmatic way to plan, buy, sell and measure television and video advertising, today announced the launch of the Adap.tv Upfront Marketplace, the first media buying platform to automate the way of securing future inventory across multiple screens. The new offering will reduce the amount of time and money spent by media buyers and sellers on managing this once time-consuming process.