Google Ad Manager Validates OpenX
In case you don’t know, OpenX, is a UK-based start-up that recently received a SeriesB $15 million injection. They are taking a successful open-source ad serving platform (History of the project/company is: PHPAds, PHPAdsNews, Max Media Manager) and applying a RedHat/MySQL approach to commercialising the opportunity.
Scott Switzer is founder and CTO and his post on why Google Ad Manager is a threat to Publishers is well-rounded and recommended reading. What’s exciting is that Google Ad Manager completely validates the need for an indy platform like OpenX, which is even more exciting as the software is open-source. That is it’s been built and is being built in the bazaar of the online Publishers rather than the cathedrals of software development. This then naturally leads one to suggest that if OpenX does get established and then builds out an Exchange/Network on top, the very fact that it’s been created in a marketplace can only be beneficial to all involved.
ReadWriteWeb have an excellent interview with Switzer that provides some further flesh to the OpenX approach to the ad serving space.
19 March, 2008 at 2:47 pm
[...] Google smoogle and OpenX [...]
27 March, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Il 4 aprile ad Ancona un seminario gratuito su OpenX. Interverranno dal Londra i responsabili di OpenX. Tutti i dettagli qui http://www.anso.it/openx/
10 April, 2008 at 11:05 am
[...] and this then creates opportunities through out the value chain. e.g.: for technologies like OpenX; indy ad networks like adconion; or indy publisher networks like Federated [...]