New “BidPlace” Will Provide Advertisers Unprecedented Transparency, Real-Time Bidding to Maximize Campaign Results

NEW YORK – Platform-A announced plans during Advertising Week V to launch BidPlace, a self-service marketplace exchange that will give advertisers unprecedented control in managing display advertising campaigns. BidPlace, which will let advertisers dynamically bid on and manage display inventory across Platform-A’s network, will provide greater transparency for marketers on a real-time basis to maximize the efficiency of their campaigns. BidPlace will launch in the first half of 2009. Platform-A, http://www.platform-a.com, is AOL’s digital advertising business.

“BidPlace unleashes the industry’s most powerful advertising technologies and puts them in the hands of advertisers,” said Lynda Clarizio, President of Platform-A. “This is the next step in Platform-A’s efforts to provide marketers a unified solution for brand advertising at scale and performance advertising across multiple media. BidPlace gives advertisers what they’ve been asking for — a more accessible and transparent approach and an ability to adjust the dials to get the best results.”
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NEW YORK, NY – July 23, 2008 – AOL’s Platform-A announced that it will offer Goowy’s widget creation and management services as part of its widget distribution offering for advertisers. Goowy enables the creation, syndication and measurement of widget-based campaigns as a free, value-added service across Platform-A’s properties and networks. Platform-A, www.platform-a.com, is AOL’s digital advertising business. Goowy forms part of AOL’s People Networks business and was acquired by AOL in February 2008.

Advertisers can now utilize Goowy to create customized “grabbable” web widgets and distribute them across Platform-A, which includes AOL’s leading media properties and thousands of sites within Advertising.com’s third-party network. In addition, widgets may also be served as ads within Bebo and Facebook applications that are part of the Widgnet publisher network, launched by Advertising.com earlier this year. While most widget platforms charge additional CPM rates, Platform-A offers the service as a value-add for qualified advertisers.

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