The AdMonsters Content Team - Gavin Dunaway, Gautam Srivastava, and Maria Tucker - are excited to bring you this inaugural live blog from the AdMonsters Publisher Forum in sunny Oxford! Stay tuned today for insights and innovations from global leaders in ad operations! The Kick-Off GS9:05 -- Rob Beeler introduces the day…
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The AdMonsters Content Team - Gavin Dunaway, Gautam Srivastava, and Maria Tucker - are excited to bring you this inaugural live blog from the AdMonsters Publisher Forum in sunny Oxford! Stay tuned today for insights and innovations from global leaders in ad operations! The Kick-OffGD9:10 -- Matt O’Neill asks who the…
Read MoreFor those of us in the digital advertising world, there is little doubt that everyone and anyone will be consuming content digitally in the near future. Devices will proliferate, advertising dollars will shift, and at some point, magazines and newspapers as we know them will decline. Today content lives in multiple…
Read MoreThe issue of privacy - the proper handling of sensitive consumer data - is not new. Over the years, the amount of attention we focus on addressing privacy concerns ebbs and flows based more on the political climate than it does our interest in putting the problem behind us by…
Read MoreI was recently asked to lead a session "What New Page Designs and New Ad Units Mean for Ad Ops" at Admonsters Publisher Forum held in San Diego this past August. When I was hashing out topics with the organizers, we quickly identified a topic that hit quite close to…
Read MoreVideoplaza is sponsoring Tom Bowman's session Video Will Become Television, Television Will Become Video at the OPS Europe event Tuesday in Cologne. In advance of the event we asked Sorosh Tavakoli, Founder and CEO of Videoplaza, a few questions about video, ad operations and the state of the industry. …
Read MoreI’ve been threatening on twitter (@MarkMcEachran) to write a book on the things publishers need to know about Real-Time Bidding (RTB). At the Rubicon Project, we like to talk about ‘RTB Done Right’ and how to help publishers understand what’s really going on. With a full-time day job I don’t…
Read MoreHow many of you know that Morgan Stanley’s advisory services division drives more than 15 percent of that firm’s annual revenue? That should come as no surprise, although it’s still shocking that so few of us use financial advisors. Financial planning is a complex undertaking with trained professionals who do…
Read MoreFor years, the power structure in digital advertising has not resembled what most consumers would expect. Publishers, the entities that actually empower advertising by owning the relationships with consumers visiting their sites, generally aren’t the ones profiting the most. This has been true for years, but is an even more…
Read MoreLast week I was fortunate enough to be able to jump down to Mexico City for IAB Mexico's Conecta conference. It was my first visit to Mexico and also my first time at Conecta, and it proved to be a very productive and enjoyable trip. Thanks to my old friend Dave…
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