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Ad Innovation Conference, September 14 at YC

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I'd like remind everyone that, as it says on the site, this conference is for "anyone working at an ad agency, advertiser, or publisher," because we seem to have a lot of people trying to register who don't fall into one of those 3 categories.

If you receive the "Thank you for your RSVP" email does that mean you're in or is there another round of selection? Need to know before I book my plane ticket..

There's another round. Initially we trusted (we should have known better) that only people in the 3 categories we listed would register. Unfortunately we also got a significant number of people who weren't, as far as we could tell. So we've changed the wording on the site to say that the form is to request an invitation, and we're examining the list of those who filled out the old form right now.

For some reason I remember having first seen it just saying "ad agency"; maybe it changed, maybe I'm crazy, whatever ;P.

Regardless, given that those two categories are included, I'd find it difficult to believe that anyone who reads this website isn't in at least one of them: "advertiser" + "publisher" includes anyone who uses AdSense.

Maybe you should list some kind of "minimum size" to be invited? I might suggest "dollars of ads transferred", as that's probably what you are caring most about (big-ticket partners and clients), and handles all three cases quite cleanly (whereas "impressions" or something only awkwardly approximates that metric and doesn't work well for "agencies" at all).

We're working on ML algos we license to DSPs... I'd love to meet startups working on different parts of the ecosystem.

Are we not welcome?

This conference is aimed more at consumers of ad technology than creators of it.

They want to "sell", not to be sold to.

It's not sales as much as collaboration. Lots of us only have point solutions. Unless we have exits very soon, the most viable approach is to partner to offer more complete solutions.

Why don't speak about Keyword Exchange Markets?

As at any conference the topics covered are those the presenters have something to say about.

Will videos of the talks be published?

I hope so....

Just a note, you can't seem to choose "0" as the number of guests that you'll bring along.

Seems to work for me. Wish I was eligible :( I'd pay a flight down for this... anyone want to bring me as a guest?

They fixed it.

A free 3-hour conference at YC headquarters? How many microseconds after this was announced did it take to fill up?

Not even that - the conference material itself sounds pretty awesome.

Very cool, guys. Great way to create leads and get feedback for the startups involved.

Great idea. Would love to a version of this on the east coast.

Is there a list of advertising industry YC companies?

Advertisements are lame.

Is pg going to be there?

If this was in NYC I would sign up in a flash.

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