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Google adtech antitrust trial: Everything you need to know

Martech

9) DOJ laid out their accusations as follows: Google controls the advertiser ad network. Google dominates the publisher ad server. Google runs the ad exchange connecting the two. Google’s defense: Disputed the definition of open-web display ads. Day 1: Accusations and badgering of witnesses (Sept.

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Building the Modern Ad Ops Team: Meet Disney’s VP of Ad Ops, Bobby Noble

Ad Monsters

By the time Noble left Uproxx for Hulu in 2018, he was in charge of overseeing revenue management, including pricing, planning, ad operations and product. As a senior manager at Hulu, he led ops across the West and Midwest regions, and his role expanded significantly following Hulus acquisition by Disney in 2019.

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Smart Adserver Rebrands to Equativ

VideoWeek

Smart Adserver, a publisher-focused ad server and supply-side platform (SSP), has today announced it is rebranding to Equativ. The move comes as Smart Adserver fully combines with LiquidM and DynAdmic, two ad tech companies it acquired in 2019 and 2021 respectively. Independence and SPO in the spotlight.

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VIDAA Selects Unruly’s SSP and Ad Server for CTV and Native Display

Unruly

VIDAA will also integrate Unruly’s ad server, which is available through its October 2021 acquisition of Spearad , to enable greater efficiency and control over their CTV ad delivery with granular ad pod controls and targeting. Vice President, Communications, Tremor International. csmith@tremorinternational.com.

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2019 Trends: Header Bidding, Mobile Apps and The Future of In-App Ad Monetization

InMobi

Even though it seems at times like everyone from the world’s biggest ad platforms down to tiny ad networks was talking about in-app header bidding in 2018, actual adoption of unified auctions among mobile publishers, app developers and their programmatic demand sources was low. But, expect all that to change in 2019.

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UK finally opens antitrust probe of Google’s role in the adtech stack

TechCrunch Ads

“The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition. “The CMA is also concerned that Google may have used its publisher ad server and its DSPs to illegally favour its own ad exchange services, while taking steps to exclude the services offered by rivals.”

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‘Some will close their gates, others will open to programmatic’: Ofer Druker on the future of CTV

Digiday

Nexxen CEO and industry veteran Ofer Druker explains how the company’s new identity was conceived to reflect its end-to-end platform — it has an ad server, demand-side platform, and supply-side platform — and expertise in video.