August 2, 2018
Skipping the SDK in Mobile In-App

If you want to see veins pop in your mobile developer’s head, just tell him or her you’ve got five new SDKs to integrate stat. Many a programmatic mobile in-app deal has evaporated at the very mention of the dreaded SDK. But what if you could on-board a native demand partner and bypass the need for an SDK? Well, Rick Welch, Head of Programmatic for Flipboard, has a story for you...

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Revisit the Mobile App Monetization Playbook

At PubForum Portland in two weeks (still a few seats left!), Timehop's David Leviev will share some of the app's wild adventures in monetization. Driving revenue from mobile apps through advertising has been confounding since Apple introduced the App Store 10 years ago. AdMonsters' Moblie App Monetization Playbook is an essential document for understanding why in-app advertising is so complex and developing strategies to better monetize a potentially lucrative channel.

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Get Scheduled: A Timeline for OMS Migration
With Google's DoubleClick Sales Manager riding off into the sunset in 2019, OMS migration is high on the minds of publishers across the digital mediascape. (We've even got a commiseration session about it at PubForum Portland.) Migration management is all about reducing pain, and nothing quite avoids pain-clusters like a good schedule. Check out this timeline template shared by PGA Tour and see if you're inspired... Or at least, less gloomy.
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We know some of you are still patting yourselves on the back for coming out the other end of the GDPR launch unscathed, but this is ad tech, folks—the next crisis is always coming sooner than you expect. The sunsetting of Google's order management system DSM means an order management system migration is in the cards for a whole lotta publishers. Have you picked a new provider and drawn up a plan for moving over? Well, good thing we've got a roadmap to help you out.
Particularly with the digital signature initiative Ads.cert, OpenRTB 3.0 is going to be a major leap forward for transparency and anti-fraud efforts in the programmatic space. But of course there's a catch—version 3.0 is not backwards compatible, meaning SSPs, DSPs, and other intermediaries have a lot of code re-writing on their hands. Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway lays out why buyers and sellers alike can't let their tech partners drag their heels when it comes to adopting this important new standard.
Shy little Rob Beeler was quite nervous at his first PubForum in 2004, but he did learn a ton from the knowledgable nice guy he sat next to. Fourteen years later, that guy—Twitch SVP of Revenue Scott Newton—is the Monday morning keynote at 2018 Portland PubForum. Rob muses on the many people he met at the conference long ago who would go on to change digital media, and how future leaders will be listening to Scott's tale this August in Portland.
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