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Facebook Shuts Down $500m Acquisition LiveRail

Facebook has closed down LiveRail, the video ad exchange it bought for a reported $400-500m in 2014. Following the closure, the social giant will “focus on finding better ways for publishers to

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Off The Rails

Sorosh Tavakoli, SVP of Ooyala, looks at what Facebook’s recent decision to close its LiveRail ad server to new customers, means for video publishers. On 7 January, Facebook announced the

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Facebook Closes LiveRail Ad Server to New Customers to Focus on Audience Network

Facebook has ceased accepting customers for its video SSP (Supply Side Platform) LiveRail as part of a move to offer more support to its FAN (Facebook Audience Network) offering, FAN

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F8: Industry Experts React to Announcements

Yesterday saw Facebook announce a range of new features at its annual f8 developer conference, including making videos hosted on the social network embeddable on other websites, transforming its Messenger

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F8: Facebook Takes Aim at Google

Six months ago, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that within five years, Facebook would be predominantly video. The social network took a major leap towards that prediction today at its annual developer

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Ad Tech M&A Activity Up 50 per cent in 2014

2014 has proven a bumper year for advertising technology firm mergers and acquisitions, with over 50 per cent more significant ad tech acquisitions this year compared to 2013. In total,

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Facebook Acquires Video Ad Company LiveRail

Facebook is acquiring video advertising company LiveRail in an effort to make video adverts a more central part of its online strategy. The San Francisco-based company was formed in 2007,

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Coull In-video Ads Go Programmatic with LiveRail

Coull is working with LiveRail to take its in-stream video overlay ads to a larger market with the use of programmatic buying. Coull’s Vidlinks are targeted not to user behaviour

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