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Company blog · sharethrough.com/engineeringprogrammingdatabusiness

Sharethrough is the company blog at sharethrough.com, writing about programming, data and business. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for explanations of programmatic ad auctions and the OpenRTB bidding protocol, in a multi-part series on advertising. Other comments are hiring posts for the company.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Sharethrough is an omnichannel supply side platform underpinned by advanced RTB tech & enhanced ad experiences. We bring human-centric technology to programmatic advertising.

What Hacker News says?

  1. The ad auctions that happen on Google (and Yahoo etc) are a simpler version of what happens on the web since there's only one publisher (i.e Google) and a single 'ad network' (i.e. AdWords). On the web, there are multiple publishers, served by multiple ad networks and multiple exchanges (and it's turtles all the way down) Nowadays, bidding on the web happens through the OpenRTB protocol. See https://www.iab.com/guid…

    Comment linking /guides/programmatic-native/

    on “Insane state of today's advertising part 3”
  2. Submitted Performing Linear Regression Using Ruby as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  3. Sharethrough - http://www.sharethrough.com/engineering San Francisco, ~Ferry Building, Full Time, Great Relo Package (we've done Canada and Australia; we're pretty good at it :) Sharethrough is... - A technology company fixing what's broken about video advertising ( http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/12/5-ways-native-monetization-... ). - Working with brands like Old Spice, Xbox and MLB. - On modern, great tech responsib…

    Comment linking /engineering

    on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)”
  4. Submitted Sharethrough – The In-Feed Ad Exchange as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Sharethrough - San Francisco, CA - http://www.sharethrough.com Sharethrough is building technology to power the distribution of meaningful content on the mobile web. Named one of the “2014 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area”, we work on everything from complex client-side workflows and analytics in Rails and CoffeeScript to real-time decisioning, auction theory and a 100GB/day+ data pipeline in Scala. We're looking…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)”
  6. Submitted How Redis Took Us Offline And What We Did About It as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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