Omnicom’s Jacobs: Keeping Programmatic Marketplaces Open is Essential for Advertisers

CANNES, France – While there has been much discussion about the move away from an open bid scenario, to private, programmatic marketplaces which match specific advertisers and publishers, Josh Jacobs, the Global CEO of OMD’s Accuen programmatic unit, says that while private exchanges are extremely important, an open ecosystem is also essential. In this interview […]

 
 

Accuen’s CEO Jacobs: Digital Is Growing, Not Stealing, TV Ad Spend

CANNES – Some folk would have you believe in a straight, linear migration of dollars from television advertising to online video advertising. But that’s not how ad trading desk software vendor Accuen Media‘s CEO Josh Jacobs sees it. “We’re starting to have much more interesting conversations with the television buyers saying, ‘How do we engage […]