Editor's note: In April at our OPS London event, Tim Faircliff, General Manager, Thomson Reuters, gave a session on Best Practices in Multi-platform Digital Media. The transcript from that session is now available below. Session Overview:The role of Ad Operations is rapidly evolving as it acts as the “Engine Room” in…
Read MoreBeing on the media agency side of the industry, we have the unique opportunity to get the inside view of all platforms and technology providers. We can opt to have partners be a preferred solution, or form agreements with as many as possible to promote competition. Because there are so…
Read MoreSince our industry loves acronyms and we have all of this conversation around data, this seems fitting for the new acronym of the month(s). What exactly is GIGO, it’s a term coined in the technology space for a computers ability to process even the most corrupt piece of information and…
Read MoreIn recent years, the online advertising industry has increasingly leveraged geographic, demographic and behavioral targeting in their quest to attract only the best, most qualified users. In doing so, nationwide, non-targeted campaigns have been pushed to the wayside when in fact, they still perform very well on some of the…
Read MoreAdOps pros industry-wide are using Firefox and Firebug daily to troubleshot page level problems, investigate first and third party data activity, and sometimes just to learn more about how the internet really works. At Krux Digital, we’ve taken these great tools one step further, developing a special Krux-specific Firefox…
Read MorePatricia Kill, Sales Support Director, News International, presented a session called Operations for the Future last week and OPS London. Patricia has been Director of News International Sales Support for the past three years, leading the strategic and operational development of both digital and print workflows, media planning and ad…
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(But using them is still an art.)By Thomas Siegman, VP Client Services, RSG Media & Mayank Agarwal, Product Manager, Zoox AnalyticsA spate of new tools is letting publishers take back their place at the table, giving them critical insights into inventory management, pricing, and products—a position that they were in…
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Eric Meixner is the Director of Ad Operations and User Metrics at WhitePages, Inc. a Top 50 website based in Seattle. Eric will be presenting "Buying and Selling Data" at the AdMonsters Publisher Forum in Memphis next week. We spoke with Eric about ad ops, privacy and self-regulation.Q: Can you…
Read MoreAMI announced today that they have signed up to use Operative.One. Read the press release.We spoke with AMI about the decision to use an advertising business management provider.Q: Please briefly describe AMI's business and current ad operations organization. Do you have a centralized team that manages the 15 websites or…
Read MoreDear AdMonsters, Let me start by saying that I am doing a session on this topic in Memphis next week. If you are going and will be joining the session, please send feedback before Monday and I can incorporated it into the presentation. Since Google announced that page load time…
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