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Proposals for Privacy and Competition

Today I testified in front of the US Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing about privacy and competition in the digital advertising space. My testimony is here. Highlights at 32:00 (my oral testimony), 50:00 (when I make an analogy and Senator Graham

  • Brian O'Kelley
Brian O'Kelley 21 May 2019 • 1 min read

BOK off Ads

In March 2003, I stepped off the PATH train at 23rd and 6th and walked down the block to my new job as a contractor for Poindexter Systems, an "ad tech" company. The Flatiron neighborhood was, much like the internet at the

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Brian O'Kelley 15 Feb 2019 • 2 min read

Trusted Data Partners: Epilogue

In early 2017, I wrote a couple of posts where I described the problem of data leakage in the ad tech industry and I proposed a solution: publishers should list their Trusted Data Partners and require the ad tech ecosystem to only send the

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Brian O'Kelley 13 Jun 2018 • 2 min read
Blockchain: Building Blocks, Not Blockbuster
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Blockchain: Building Blocks, Not Blockbuster

I share my basic thoughts on blockchain, ad tech, and ICOs

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Brian O'Kelley 13 Mar 2018 • 1 min read
The Transparency Bear
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The Transparency Bear

Transparency is coming. And for ad tech companies, the question is simple: can you outrun the transparency bear? And if not, can you outrun your competitors?

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Brian O'Kelley 22 Feb 2018 • 2 min read
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Ending Ad Fraud: A Distributed and Punitive Approach

Over the past 20 years of digital advertising, we have seen a drumbeat of news stories about fraud. Often, these stories include some terrifying sum of advertising money that is being wasted buying fraudulent traffic. These stories are often seeded by an anti-fraud vendor

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Brian O'Kelley 19 Sep 2017 • 11 min read
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Passthrough Auctions: Rethinking Supply Path Optimization

Last August, I wrote a post introducing the concept of Supply Path Optimization to address the commoditization of programmatic supply access due to header bidding. Over the next two quarters, I worked closely with a team at AppNexus that did a domain-by-domain analysis of

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Brian O'Kelley 9 May 2017 • 7 min read

Request for Comments: Trusted Data Partners

In a previous post I explained how data leakage happens. In this post I will propose a framework to solve this problem systematically. Levels of data leakage protection As publishers think about preventing data leakage, there is an implicit tradeoff between protecting data and

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Brian O'Kelley 23 Feb 2017 • 9 min read
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Data is fallout, not oil

A reporter once told me he was going to write a piece about programmatic advertising called "Data is the new oil"[1]. His idea was that having data about customers and prospects is directly correlated with the ability to drive successful marketing

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Brian O'Kelley 23 Feb 2017 • 12 min read
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The ad tech renaissance

We simply must fix the monetization and distribution challenges that publishers face. This is a societal problem as well as an economic one; we need to support real news if we want to fight back fake news. The internet needs an ad tech renaissance,

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Brian O'Kelley 3 Jan 2017 • 5 min read

Can Technology Save Journalism?

Cross-posting a couple of articles I wrote for Forbes: Can Technology Save Journalism? Part I - February 23, 2016 Can Technology Save Journalism? Part II - September 6, 2016

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Brian O'Kelley 7 Sep 2016 • 1 min read

Why lower win rates are better

In the world of the ad exchange, your "win rate" is the ratio of bids to wins. This seems like an intuitive metric: if you want to win more, bid higher. Even with all of the crazy multi-tier pseudo-auctions we see these

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Brian O'Kelley 26 Aug 2016 • 2 min read
Preventing Bad Behavior in Header Bidding: Supply Path Optimization
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Preventing Bad Behavior in Header Bidding: Supply Path Optimization

As publishers implement header bidding in increasing numbers, we are beginning to see new techniques that allow an aggressive SSP to significantly alter outcomes for both the publisher and the

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Brian O'Kelley 20 Aug 2016 • 9 min read
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