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How gaming firm Overwolf quietly became one of the major players in gaming advertising

Digiday

As marketers grow wiser about the multitude of ways to reach gamers, gaming company Overwolf’s focus on owned-and-operated gaming properties has helped grow the company into one of the industry’s largest ad networks.

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58. Jeff Hirsch – all the -Clicks in SoCal lead to AudienceScience

Paleo AdTech

Jeff was founder and CRO of the FastClick ad network, acquired by ValueClick. Jeff spent the dawn of the internet and its frenetic aftermath in the luxe milieu of Santa Barbara, where a number of pragmatic ad tech players got their start (e.g., Also in 2000, Jeff left ValueClick and started FastClick, another ad network.

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What is ad mediation?

Monetize More

Ad mediation has been around since 2010, but publishers are now discovering the potential of these platforms since some can perform up to 20% better than a single ad network. Ad mediation provides publishers with more revenue generation scope & complete control over how, when, & who gets their ad inventory.

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35. Michael Katz – double-clicking on InterCLICK and Yahoo

Paleo AdTech

Before that he was founder and president of InterCLICK (hereafter due to caps-aversion: Interclick), a data-informed ad network which started business in the Boston metro region in 2005 and was sold to Yahoo in 2011 for a reported $270 million. Growth was solid in the years 2009-2010.

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35. Michael Katz – double-clicking on InterCLICK and Yahoo

Paleo AdTech

Before that he was founder and president of InterCLICK (hereafter due to caps-aversion: Interclick), a data-informed ad network which started business in the Boston metro region in 2005 and was sold to Yahoo in 2011 for a reported $270 million. Growth was solid in the years 2009-2010.

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CFPB Warning to Consumer Financial Services Digital Marketing Providers

All About Advertising Law

We note, however, that when Congress enacted the CFPA in 2010 with the “service provider” definition and the exceptions as they are today, the concepts of using behavioral analytics in advertising were already well developed. And since 2010, the FTC and CFPB have been actively scrutinizing digital marketers, including lead generators.

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24. Tolman Geffs – banking on ad tech and media

Paleo AdTech

Joining the bank in 2004, he saw the rise of programmatic platforms, the twilight of “100% markup, 50% margin” ad networks, and the transformation of the ad tech industry from “a teen dance party” to a “mature, more reliable” set of processes, practitioners and rules.

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