If 2013 must be a "year of something," we probably should call it the year of mobile. According to estimates from eMarketer, U.S. mobile advertising spend more than doubled in 2013 to hit $9.6 billion compared to $4.36 billion in 2012. eMarketer estimates that near-stagnant desktop spend will actually decrease…
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If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, you really should pore through all of this Washington Post investigative piece on the National Security Administration’s tracking through Internet cookies and device identifiers. Namely, the agency has been using some of digital media’s favorite tools to track and target…
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“What’s up with my fill rate? Why are the video ads loading so slow?”Those are the two questions publishers really don’t want to be asking themselves when it comes to digital video – especially if they’re dabbling in programmatic waters.High-value video inventory is the moneymaker of the moment for publishers…
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By Zeus, I declare this holiday Botsgiving!Although bots have long been a menace to digital media (remember click fraud?), bot fever has been spreading like wildfire across the industry this year, probably in response to some dire statistics. The latest, from Integral Ad Science, suggests 14% of all impressions out…
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The Latest AdMonsters Digital Media Leadership Award WinnersSunday evening during the opening reception of our Publisher Forum conference in Scottsdale, we announced the latest recipients of the Digital Media Leadership Award.As you may recall, we created the Digital Media Leadership Awards earlier this year. Winners are chosen based on their…
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We're officially live from sunny Scottsdale, where the air is dry, the palmtrees are towering and, most importantly, where it's 2,000 miles from the impending Arctic front heading for the Northeast. But, don't fret if you couldn't join us in sunsoaked Arizona, we'll be coming at you live over the…
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At its San Francisco summit earlier this year, AppNexus used a slide chock full of poker chips to announce the technology platform was going "all in" on mobile. A gambling reference was an interesting choice – in the hazy world of mobile monetization is programmatic (namely RTB-driven) trading a good…
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Some premium publishers are likely reading the latest batch of hysterical articles describing the scourge of botnet traffic on digital advertising and thinking, "Tough cookies."Which isn't a bad way to put it – media buyers' obsession with chasing cookies and buying the cheapest inventory available through RTB-powered exchanges has created…
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It’s a weird time for the cookie. Villainized by privacy advocates and the media, the itty bitty sticky bits of data seem to be more popular than ever when it comes to digital ad targeting and tracking.Publishers are increasingly meeting cookie-obsessed advertisers on the programmatic playing field via private exchanges,…
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Marketers don’t want just branding or performance - they want both and it’s up to publishers to serve both needs. This often requires pubs to bridge the gap between their direct sales efforts and their programmatic channels. Federated Media's Walter Knapp, COO, and Chris Eberle, SVP and GM, Business Operations,…
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