With Amazon completely dominating Cyber Monday sales, how well are advertisers taking advantage of Amazon's programmatic promotional opportunities?

Let's have a debate. Adblock Plus, the leading ad blocker, will convene a "potentially world-changing meetup" the week after next in New York. Should advertisers attend?

Scott Moore, CEO of Ad Lightning, talks about its "proprietary intelligence tool" that is designed to weed out programmatic ads that slow down or detract from a user experience.

Just when traditional advertisers are starting to abandon the usual media suspects and going mostly digital, it turns out that all growth in the ad tech industry is coming from two companies: Facebook and Google.

Just exactly how much of a programmatic advertising powerhouse will the $85 billion AT&T Time Warner combination be? I see great potential, but a lot of roadblocks.

I asked Rocket Fuel CTO Mark Torrance about Rocket Fuel's somewhat "disappointing" third quarter results and its stock price in an email interview. "My impression is [Wall Street] isn't really getting it," he said.

The Trade Desk's IPO provides a unique opportunity to see both how viable ad tech companies are in the public markets as well as to evaluate The Trade Desk in particular.

This past week, Snap, Inc. was reported to be planning a $25 billion IPO, not surprising us - or anyone in the ad business. Any company that reaches, on a given day, 41% of 18-34 year olds in the U.S. is going to get noticed.

Facebook is taking on Craigslist and eBay directly, with a new mobile local - and probably international - classified ad feature called Marketplace, giving it some unique opportunities to further target its users with programmatic ads.

The announcement that 27 big media brands will work with a cooperative digital advertising marketplace named TrustX should not be a surprise. We think it was inevitable.