To my knowledge no one goes into ad operations to practice law. It was certainly the last thing on my mind when I started back in 1999, but I quickly found myself having to navigate T&Cs, IOs and the occasional client-signed PowerPoint slide printout. As if that wasn’t tough enough,…
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Malvertising, defined as the use of online advertising to spread malicious software (aka “malware”), is a damaging occurrence in online advertising. A malicious advertisement is one that is able to infect a user’s computer with malware. Malvertising tends to be rare in frequency, but its consequences can be destructive; publishers…
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Calling 2013 a big inflection point for the space, Xaxis VP of Product Development Christina Beaumier proclaimed: “TV advertisers no longer think of digital video as a red-headed stepchild.”At VideoNuze’s Online Video Advertising Summit, participant after participant illustrated why these are digital video’s halcyon days – in particular, because of the…
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Second-screen and companion viewing isn’t a new phenomenon per se. Television viewers are quite accustomed to diverting their attention throughout broadcasts. And even before the proliferation of TV companion apps such as Zeebox, Viggle and GetGlue, viewers often Googled or Wikipedia-d content pertinent to what they were watching on screen.…
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The headline that likely best sums up Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr comes from an unlikely source: “Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs,” blasted The Onion.Snicker all you want (I did!), but basically Yahoo just spent $1.1 billion on a younger audience to bolster the aging…
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For the first time in history, the UM Ad Ops team is getting a summer intern. Apparently, there are a lot of mundane and basic tasks associated with Operations (who knew!), and our team will be able to push those tasks onto the intern for the next 2 ½ months.…
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Written by AdMonsters' U.S. Editor Gavin Dunaway for The Makegood.Portrait of a cord cutter – you’re looking at it. Disturbing, a little serial killer-esque, I know.Five years ago, I moved to NYC from DC with a laptop and an iPod as my only media consumption devices. Eventually I got a…
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Look, we don’t have anything against retargeters. Some of our best sponsors are retargeters, and we’ll be the first to say the channel occasionally gets a bad rap. Execution is the real challenge – too often advertisers blanket consumers with repetitive creative, possibly for products they have already bought. It…
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Click Here to Download the Report! In 2012, the IAB officially recognized viewable impressions as a viable metric with its 'Making Measurement Make Sense,' or 3MS initiative. Today, viewability occupies the ad ops spotlight, as debates grow both for and against the controversial metric. And, with the discussion on viewable impressions…
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Click Here to Download the ReportIn a survey for our new report, "How to Fight the Growing Threat of Malvertisements", sponsored by Symantec, we found that 90 percent of ad ops professionals acknowledge the threat of malvertising, and consider malvertising protection "very important." Our newest report with Symantec outlines just why…
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