The rough waters never seem to give way for Yahoo. Along with rumors of investor unrest and overall dissatisfaction with CEO Marissa Mayer, Big Y kicked off the year as the poster child for bad behavior in digital video advertising when a CNBC report alleged that not only was its…
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As demand among buyers for quality video inventory has risen, so have the channels for transacting on video--programmatic video, video private marketplaces, programmatic TV. At the same time, so have the platforms into which advertisers feel enthusiastic about buying video inventory, with in-demand media bursting into outstream, mobile and other…
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The boom town in digital is being built in a video player, and the dilemma created by the boom is now a pretty famous one: There's more demand from advertisers for premium video inventory than most publishers can reasonably accommodate. That's where outstream video comes in. The promise of outstream…
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If you want to hear about real-life examples of how a historic, trusted but largely regional publication can adapt to and thrive in digital, Ray Faust is one of those people you’d want to talk to. The VP, National and Emerging Sales at the Star Tribune Media Company helped lead…
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The scourge of digital advertising! The killer of revenue! The savior of our industry!Most supply-siders (perhaps grudgingly) will agree with the digital media masses that consider viewability a good thing for the industry. In a perfect world, advertisers would only be charged for ads that were seen; as the most…
Read MoreBrand advertisers and agencies have decided viewability is their chosen cause this year — and why not? The point of serving ads is for those ads to be seen. If no one sees the ad, why should the advertiser be obliged to pay for it?Well, the complicated part is that,…
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Believe it or not, the AdMonsters content team has been fretting about whether we have too much viewability in our OPS agenda. What? How is that possible? There is no such thing as too much viewability! Please – there sure is. Yes, viewability is the topic du jour (du année? du decáde?), and…
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Welcome to another edition of Viewability Hacks! We hope our last article featuring Ziff Davis' Chrome Extension awoke your inner ops McGuyver. This week, Whitepages shares its Inventory Request Template spreadsheet (download), which is actually handy for much more than viewability. Jeff Mayer, a great AdMonsters resource who recently shifted from Whitpages…
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Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that viewability is a post-campaign metric? We can target ads based on HTML cookies in real-time, why can’t we determine whether the impression associated with that cookie is also in view, or at least has a high chance of being in…
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Download the latest Publisher Viewability Litmus Test here. (Note: You must log in or register with AdMonsters to download the survey.) From the Executive Summary: In April 2014, shortly after the Media Rating Council lifted its embargo on transacting display inventory on a viewability basis, AdMonsters fired out a survey to its…
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