Thursday, March 11th, 2010

New platform to replace DART for Publishers and Ad Manager.

It’s the latest ad serving platform from Google. DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) is designed to assist online publishers with fulfilling their ad inventory. This is most useful in addressing a variety of options such as timing and unexpected traffic surges.

The new platform is available in two offerings: DoubleClick for Publishers, for large sites, and DFP Small Business, a free version for smaller sites.

DoubleClick for Publishers will replace DART for Publishers, but the transition will occur over the next year. Additionally, Ad Manager customers will be upgraded to DFP Small Business over the next few weeks.

New platform to replace DART for Publishers and Ad Manager.

It’s the latest ad serving platform from Google. DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) is designed to assist online publishers with fulfilling their ad inventory. This is most useful in addressing a variety of options such as timing and unexpected traffic surges.

The new platform is available in two offerings: DoubleClick for Publishers, for large sites, and DFP Small Business, a free version for smaller sites.

DoubleClick for Publishers will replace DART for Publishers, but the transition will occur over the next year. Additionally, Ad Manager customers will be upgraded to DFP Small Business over the next few weeks.

New platform to replace DART for Publishers and Ad Manager.

It’s the latest ad serving platform from Google. DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) is designed to assist online publishers with fulfilling their ad inventory. This is most useful in addressing a variety of options such as timing and unexpected traffic surges.

The new platform is available in two offerings: DoubleClick for Publishers, for large sites, and DFP Small Business, a free version for smaller sites.

DoubleClick for Publishers will replace DART for Publishers, but the transition will occur over the next year. Additionally, Ad Manager customers will be upgraded to DFP Small Business over the next few weeks.

So many updates. So little time.

It was another overachieving week for . In addition to launching their own quasi-social network and acquiring Aardvark, they were busy pushing out a bunch of updates to existing products and sharing new data. And yes, even has received its first round of updates.

Without further ado….

is now offering up Bid Ideas in the Opportunities Tab. Bid ideas are based on bid simulator data.

explains how they treat keywords from referral search engines as content on publisher websites in order to serve up relevant ads.

The ability to search for ads is being rolled out to the Ad Review Center, part of the new AdSense interface. Right now, only a small set of publishers have access, but says they’re working on extending it to more as additional publishers are invited to test the new interface.

Publishers will be able to search for ads a variety of ways including:

  • keyword
  • display URL
  • destination URL
  • placement targeted to their site
  • for mobile
  • for feeds

Publishers will then be able to filter their search by allowed, blocked and new ads.

This was one of those weeks where unleashed a of updates. Try as we might, sometimes we just run out of time at the end of the week. So, occasionally, we have to compile a list of the leftovers at the end of the week. Here’s what we haven’t yet covered that you’ll still want to know:

Retail told us that consumers are increasingly shopping online on the weekends – yes, even during the holidays (avoiding the crowds?). They also unveiled hot holiday searches and Cyber Monday’s hot search trends.

This was one of those weeks where unleashed a of updates. Try as we might, sometimes we just run out of time at the end of the week. So, occasionally, we have to compile a list of the leftovers at the end of the week. Here’s what we haven’t yet covered that you’ll still want to know:

Retail told us that consumers are increasingly shopping online on the weekends – yes, even during the holidays (avoiding the crowds?). They also unveiled hot holiday searches and Cyber Monday’s hot search trends.

has announced a new agreement to acquire Teracent, a San Mateo display optimization startup. Teracent uses technology that chooses from thousands of elements and machine-learning algorithms to serve up ads in real-time.

Elements include tweaking colors, images, messaging, and products. Then the ads are targeted even more according to location, language, time of day, etc.

The acquisition is expected to be complete sometime this quarter. After that, plans to implement Teracent’s technology to the Content Network and DoubleClick.

has announced a new agreement to acquire Teracent, a San Mateo display optimization startup. Teracent uses technology that chooses from thousands of elements and machine-learning algorithms to serve up ads in real-time.

Elements include tweaking colors, images, messaging, and products. Then the ads are targeted even more according to location, language, time of day, etc.

The acquisition is expected to be complete sometime this quarter. After that, plans to implement Teracent’s technology to the Content Network and DoubleClick.

has announced a new agreement to acquire Teracent, a San Mateo display optimization startup. Teracent uses technology that chooses from thousands of elements and machine-learning algorithms to serve up ads in real-time.

Elements include tweaking colors, images, messaging, and products. Then the ads are targeted even more according to location, language, time of day, etc.

The acquisition is expected to be complete sometime this quarter. After that, plans to implement Teracent’s technology to the Content Network and DoubleClick.