As the founder of AdMonsters, I’ve been to just about all of our conferences over the years. At this point I’m used to the fact that you all aren’t there to talk to me, but people do often ask me why and how I started the company.The simple answer is…
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Many of you know that I’m an avid kitesurfer. Like many other activities, kiting remains a bit opaque to those who haven’t tried it. You see people from far away getting pulled along by giant kites, and you think: wow, that looks "crazy", "scary" or "wild", but it's hard to…
Read MoreLast fall I wrote about my experience at the inaugural OpenCo festival here in San Francisco. OpenCo launched last week with an Indiegogo campaign and a calendar of events covering New York (May 22-24, as part of Internet Week), London (June 6-7), Detroit (September 12-13), and San Francisco (October 9-11). I'm proud…
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AdMonsters Strengthens Global Reach In Serving Digital Strategists AdMonsters Partners with Rising Media to Produce AdMonsters Conferences in UK and Europe SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 23, 2013 - AdMonsters, the global leader in strategic insights on digital media and advertising strategy through its conferences, website, research and consulting services, today…
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Hard work makes art In Seattle last week I had the opportunity to meet a minor hero of mine: Jon Rimmerman, founder of Garagiste Wine. Jon's business is nothing short of amazing, but the main reason I wanted to meet him is simply because of his writing. Jon's offers (which, by the way,…
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AdMonsters Connect Program Launches With Major Ad Technology Partners The Media Trust, RocketFuel, OpenX and Google’s DoubleClickThe Connect content program is designed to help advertising technology and monetization vendors reach their content marketing goals by sponsorship of original, objective, top-quality content created by the AdMonsters editorial team. The Connect program…
Read MoreLast week I was fortunate enough to be able to jump down to Mexico City for IAB Mexico's Conecta conference. It was my first visit to Mexico and also my first time at Conecta, and it proved to be a very productive and enjoyable trip. Thanks to my old friend Dave…
Read MoreAdMonsters has been around since 1999, and for many years our site was an true antique, constructed of hand-built PHP that was very fragile, hard to extend, and left us highly dependent on me, the founder, CEO and de-facto CTO. We knew we had to move towards a modern, robust…
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I’m back in San Francisco for a few days in between the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting (IABALM) and AdMonsters Publisher Forum XIV in Memphis. IABALM is a sea of C-level execs from “all” the top media and technology companies and I ran into a ton of old friends as well…
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The world of online advertising operations and technology came together yesterday at the first OPS conference. We at AdMonsters knew it was time for an open forum exclusively dedicated to online ad ops, and it was a huge success. I heard tons of great feedback throughout the day, including my…
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