Rubicon Powers News Corp’s Programmatic Ad Ambitions

Programmatic ad trading facilitator Rubicon Project is rising on growing interest among publishers like News Corp to sell ads using the technique on their own terms. Although some publishers believe the ad-selling model devalues their ad inventory, News Corp and The New York Times this year launched their own programmatic ad exchanges – the latter using DoubeClick […]

 
 

Mindshare’s Kinsella: Video Is the Key to Real-Time Marketing and ‘Wochit’ Provides Compelling Solution

Colin Kinsella, who joined WPP as the CEO of Mindshare, NA  this July from Digitas where he was CEO for North America, has been a leader in the movement to “real-time” marketing where agencies and their brands engage with consumers around scheduled and breaking news events. In November, we interviewed him in Monaco about the […]

 
 

Digital Video Spend Hitting “Double Digits,” Starcom President Amanda Richman Tells Beet.TV

As the medium is maturing, spending on digital video is hitting double digits from some her media agency clients, says Amanda Richman president of Starcom, in this interview with Beet.TV.  In this video interview, she discusses the evolution of real-time marketing, branded entertainment and the growth of the digital video marketplace. We spoke at the […]