UPDATE: The AdMonsters DNT meetup was a rousing three-hour discussion that poured over into a delightful talk over drinks. Our appreciation goes out to all who attended – including representatives from NYTimes, MTV/Viacom, A&E Networks, Clearspring, Gawker and more – with extra thanks to W3C Tracking Protection Working Group Co-Chair…
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AdMonsters is proud to host a meeting of publisher ad operations professionals and members of the World Wide Web Consortium's (3WC) Tracking Protection Working Group to discuss draft guidelines for a potential browser Do Not Track mechanism and its execution. The guidelines can be found here:Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) (i.e., the DNT…
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Monsters Mobilize!I thought of that about three weeks ago and it's been burning to get out ever since.Phew, ok that's out of the way. Welcome to the OPS Mobile NY Live Blog coming to you direct from a somewhat overcast Soho, NY City.Stay tuned for a day of industry leaders,…
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We're very close to kick-off here at OPS Week NY. Some of the brightest minds in the digital ad space are currently milling through the doorway into the impressive space that is 82 Mercer right in the heart of Soho.Looks like we're all set for a day of stellar peer…
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Prior to his OPS Markets NY (April 18!) presentation on taking control of the marketing mix via a DMP, Xaxis Managing Director of North America Paul Dolan stole a few moments to detail the many facets of WPP’s audience buying platform.Xaxis launched as WPP's central audience buying platform last year…
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AdMonsters EU Editor Gautam Srivastava sat down Vindico's UK Country Manager James Grant to discuss the current state of the Video market - and the steps he feels need to be taken in order for it to reach the levels of Search and Display. Read it below.Vindico's strap is 'Making…
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For the first 14 years of my career, my idea of a large company was 200, perhaps 300 people. My personal sense of scale took a whipping when I decided to go to work at the consumer division of Thomson Reuters, a company that employs 60,000 souls.I walked in with…
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Thanks to an annual growth rate of 3.7%, Brazil’s GDP was $2.52 trillion in 2011, surpassing the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth-largest economy. Of interest to those of us in the online advertising business, ZenithOptimedia reported Brazil had already become the sixth-largest global ad market in 2010, and according…
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We are experiencing a boom in the digital display advertising market and the growth is remarkable. IAB Europe indicate that display has overtaken search as the fastest growing advertising channel in Europe, up 21.3% compared to 2010. Technological evolution and innovation - principally from new technologies like demand-side and supply…
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I spoke the other week at AdMonsters OPS Markets London on the subject of audience efficiency. This is a methodology both to evaluate individual segments relative to a target audience, usually client converters or visitors, and the most efficient way to describe that target. We posted a preliminary piece on…
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