Archive for May, 2006

in Direct Media Exchange

Congrats to a Partner

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
By Pat McCarthy
May 23rd, 2006

Congratulations to Right Media Exchange partner CPX Interactive which had some good news to announce with the opening of a West Coast office and the reporting of some great growth.

in API

Release 0.18 is out

Monday, May 22nd, 2006
By Ilya Martynov
May 22nd, 2006

New APIs:

  • New API set/getDefaultChannels() and set/getDefaultInventoryType() in Publisher service to set default channels/inventory type for publishers.

Updated documentation:

  • New page with API client examples.
  • Documentation had mistakes when describing expected time format (we use UTC timezone instead of EST, daypart time format should be in hours).

Bugfixes:

  • Invalid contact could be created when using either Publisher.add() or Contact.add() APIs.
  • Users could reset creative content hash to NULL in some cases.

API documentation: http://api.yieldmanager.com/doc/.

WSDLs for the beta production version (updated to the latest version 0.18):

WSDLs for the stable production version (runs old version 0.16):

Test version UI: http://api-test.yieldmanager.com/test-ui/.

WSDLs for the test version:

in Direct Media Exchange

Exchanges are Hot

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
By Pat McCarthy
May 10th, 2006

Bennett Zucker added a good article summarizing the recent buzz about online ad exchanges and how it ties into what we’re building at Right Media.

in API

Release 0.17 is out

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
By Ilya Martynov
May 10th, 2006

Updated APIs:

  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) All fields are declared as optional in WSDL now. The SOAP server is less strict about missing fields for add() and update() operations. In most cases it would substitute a default for a missing field when it the past the same missing field would result in a SOAP Fault.
  • (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE) Creative service have been reworked. Particulary many new fields were added to creative soap data type, support for binary file uploads was added and complete set of validation rules have been implemented.
  • Support for super user access.
  • IO/LI services supports all cases when managing entity connects to its managed entity. Linking (i.e. connecting two self-managed entities) is not supported yet.
  • New high level API for publisher creation addEx() which allows to create a set of business objects in one step: a publisher, a default site, a default section, an insertion order connecting to this publisher and a line item on this insertion order.
  • New APIs to manage contacts.

Updated documentation:

  • Added documentation on available offer types.
  • Removed references on API addDeliveryRules() which doesn’t exist anymore.

Bugfixes:

  • insertion_order.exchange_rate is autoset by the server now.
  • Check entity settings if “Must Deliver” priority can be set

API documentation: http://api.yieldmanager.com/doc/.

Test version UI: http://api-test.yieldmanager.com/test-ui/.

WSDLs for the test version:

WSDLs for the beta production version (updated to the latest version 0.17):

WSDLs for the stable production version (runs on old version 0.16):

in About Right Media, Right Media Exchange, Advertisers, Publishers, Ad Networks

You Are in the Vanguard of Digital Media

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
By Bennett Zucker
May 10th, 2006

It’s becoming more apparent every day that advertisers, publishers and networks want a more open and fair way to buy and sell online media.

Two great examples in the last couple of days include “Google & eBay in Ad Industry Shootout” about the race to create “ADSDAQ” for trading media; and “Advertisers, Agencies Float $50 Million Plan For Media Trading System.” Also, two people prominent in our business have proposed creating a trade group dedicated to openness, fairness and standards for citizens’ media. At Right Media, we offer Jeff Jarvis and Jarvis Coffin a hearty hurray!

Jeff Jarvis issued a rallying cry to liberate citizens’ media from the tyranny of friction in the ad marketplace. His New England co-conspirator, BURST! Media’s Jarvis Coffin, has taken a principled stand favoring openness, measurement standards and research for all who oppose “Google’s growing hegemony over advertising.”

Right Media CEO Mike Walrath calls this revolution a chance to build a better new media worldview in which the market is “liquid and transparent, and more access to information benefit[s] the buyer, seller and value-adding intermediary who embrace an open marketplace for advertising.”  http://www.rightmedia.com/articles/92/1/The-Media-Revolution.

The Right Media Exchange already provides an open environment in which numerous advertisers and more than sixty ad networks – much like Mr. Coffin’s – compete among themselves to buy more than 60-billion impressions monthly on blogs, small websites and media giant sites alike. It’s a wide open auction-based marketplace that already does what Mr. Jarvis called for: It provides advertisers and media the ability  to “gain control and increase their effectiveness and their value,” free of the walled-in system approach favored by Google and other closed networks.

You can count Right Media in as a charter member of the trade group being established for citizens’ media. Among other contributions, we will make available our Media Guard advertising creative auditing system that assures publishers that any subscribing network will only deliver ads that meet their specific criteria for content. No more unfortunate juxtapositions of racy ads on kids’ pages or seizure-inducing animations on quiet content pages.

The media revolution is here. Forward-looking companies such as Right Media and BURST!Media plan to be among its leaders. We encourage everyone who has a stake to tear down your walls and let liberty and prosperity flourish.