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

Ad Monsters

Many ad tech professionals fell into this industry by chance. But Bobby Noble, now Disneys VP of ad operations, says that, for him, it felt like a natural evolution. 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.

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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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Disney plans to extend Hulu’s ad targeting options to Disney+’s ad tier

Digiday

The extension of Hulu’s ad products and services to Disney+ is the latest showing of Disney’s push to unify its back-end ad tech operation as the company seeks to automate 50% of its ad sales — a goal that Ferro said Disney is on pace to reach this year. That’s the beauty of having everything on the same ad server.”

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

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“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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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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Tremor International Rebrands as Nexxen

VideoWeek

Tremor International this morning announced it is rebranding as Nexxen, bringing its portfolio of ad tech businesses including Unruly, Amobee, Tremor Video and Spearad under one brand in the process. Then in 2019 it bought RhythmOne for $176 million, adding SSP and exchange components to its business.

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The WIR: Altice Explores Teads Sale, Premier League Revamps Rights Auction, and UK Digital Publisher Revenues Show Continued Growth

VideoWeek

In this week’s Week in Review: Altice Europe considers selling ad tech business Teads, the Premier League revamps its TV rights auction, and UK digital publisher revenues show continued growth. Altice acquired the ad tech firm in 2017 for €285 million.