The other week when someone asked me by email if I was going to Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, I wrote back, “Do I look like I’m the type to go to Cannes? If I wanted to go to an overcrowded waterfront with a bunch of bloated Europeans, I’d…
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Here at AdMonsters, we often think of ourselves as the TMZ of the digital advertising world. No, we don’t stealthily follow around the digital directors of media companies to catch them in compromising positions (and if we did, you couldn’t prove it), but we are on top of every trend…
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AdMonsters Meetup - Los AngelesHeader bidding has proven to be a revenue game-changer for many digital publishers. Through header bidding, publishers are able to gauge and transact on the true value of their inventory in programmatic channels. And for a lot of publishers, once they've gotten accustomed to life and…
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One of the key mantras of digital media has long been “the right ad to the right person at the right time.” Frequently promised, it’s debatable how well that goal has been delivered upon. Data is essential in transacting on programmatic deals, and while the transparency and depth of insights…
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It’s been a busy few months for Index Exchange. In April, Google announced the exchange as a launch partner as it opened up its Dynamic Allocation server-to-server connection within Doubleclick for Publishers to third-party demand. Then in May, Index and AppNexus announced seamless integrations with each other’s wrappers, pointing toward…
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Yield strategists… Are they actually sorcerers? Because bringing together a slew of seemingly disparate revenue channels while also breaking them into functional units in order to optimize revenue sounds like some kind wizardry beyond the realms of science. Impossible, you say? No, it’s not magic, Operative CEO Lorne Brown explains…
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When they first hit the scene, private marketplaces were heralded as a promising next step in the evolution of programmatic: a way for buyers and sellers to transact efficiently in a trusted and highly valued environment.Unfortunately, that’s not how PMPs have panned out for publishers, at least not across the…
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If you're a brand that wants to push out a native advertising campaign that consumers find genuine and meaningful -- as "native" as it gets, really, on a premium publisher property of inimitable quality -- one of the best things you could do is to have the publisher develop the…
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OPS approaches! Our yearly one-day gathering in NYC of more than 700 digital strategists from publishers, brands and agencies is merely a few weeks away (June 7!). If you’ve given a gander to the agenda lately, you may have noticed… There’s a lot going on. Yes, at times we are…
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Of course the mainstreaming of header bidding has rocked the broader digital landscape, for reasons that ought to be familiar to most AdMonsters readers. But for all its merits, there’s been this widespread suspicion that maybe the header isn’t the end game here: What if the header is just a…
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