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Programmatic Direct

Build a Scalable Ad Sales Program Around Premium Ads in Email

Publishers like SANDOW Media are using LiveIntent's Native Ad Blueprints to leverage their first-party audience data to build scalable ad sales programs around premium ad packages that resonate with their audiences while driving deeper buyer engagement by combining native formats for email newsletters and programmatic advertising. 

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2020: Will Ad Tech Run Out of Easy Answers?

One of ad tech’s chief promises was that it would finally fix advertising. The advent of real-time bidding (RTB) in the late aughts ushered in ad tech’s “Age of Easy Answers” where the frustrating ambiguities of marketing and advertising would steadily be rooted out and obliterated by data and algorithms.…

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Ops on the Rise: Programmatic Shifts and Newsletter Openings

When two digital media vets like AdMonsters Chairman Rob Beeler and Craig Leshen, President of OAO, sit down to catch up, it’s not hard to find them comparing the early days to today and even the future. OAO works with many, many publishers and so we always value Craig’s perspective…

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#OPSPOV: Marketers Have Good Reasons to Go Programmatic

The chief finding from a Winterberry Group/IAB report on programmatic has been the subject of many conversations at AdMonsters lately: 99% of global publishers have some kind of programmatic offering. This runs the gamut from programmatic direct and private marketplaces to simply filling some unsold inventory via open RTB.Things are…

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Tools For Tomorrow: A Conversation With Neil Sweeney, President & CEO of Juice Mobile

For publishers, mobile is an itch spreading over greater sections of skin, tingling more ferociously every second. Scratching doesn’t make it worse, but certainly fails to relieve the symptoms. Publishers continue to struggle in their mobile monetization efforts: because there’s little incentive for direct sales to evangelize the channel (particularly when…

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#OPSPOV: Is Programmatic Direct a Point Solution?

Though it seems fraud and the scourge of bots were high of mind at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting this week, EmpiricalMedia’s Steve Goldberg launched a few missiles via AdExchanger that I’m sure exploded in debate over in Palm Springs. One of these missiles included predicting “the end of stand…

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The Maturation of Programmatic Direct

Maybe it’s because I’ve been watching too much “Downton Abbey,” but I can’t shake the idea that if programmatic direct was a debutante, 2013 was the year it came out.While the concept had been around for a while and people had long whispered about its prospects, last year was when…

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