<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7f4a7bb9-02c4-45c7-8006-02aad0907456/CC7A8A16-6402-47E2-95BE-A874A7DBAB8A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625623" href="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625623" style="font-size: 11px;">www.clickz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625623">In this two-part column, I'll focus on the vision behind the deal: both the expressed vision of the players, and likely additional motivations behind the deal. I'll share my perspective about the astonishing price of $3.1 billion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625623"><P>A big factor driving the deal price was the DoubleClick Media Exchange, built on top of DFP (Dart for Publishers). DoubleClick had <A href="http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625487">announced</A> this media exchange publicly just a days before the acquisition announcement, but industry insiders had been aware of it for some time. The media exchange, powered by DFP, allows top-tier publishers to opt in to the new platform simply by checking a box. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CC7A8A16-6402-47E2-95BE-A874A7DBAB8A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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