Edward Montes is EVP, Managing Director of Havas Digital US, the interactive network of Havas Media. He develops and leads Media Contacts US and Canada, managing MC staff in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Toronto. Prior to Havas Digital, Edward worked at Yahoo! Inc. where he was Director…
Read More
Publishers struggling to tell their ad networks from their ad exchanges and their DSPs from their agency trading desks have a new tool to help them keep pace with the sub-sectors of the online advertising world. In response to frequent customer requests, Improve Digital (the largest European sell side platform,…
Read More
Editor's Note: Scott Savage's post originally appeared on his blog: scottsavage.net. This week I attended the AdMonsters cn-us-22 conference in New York Metro. It was my first Admonsters conference, and was very interesting mainly from publisher, pain point, mobile and industry landscape perspectives.The key observations that I had were: No-one…
Read MoreJuly 6, 2010 Altitude, Millbank, London Event Updates & News Keynote Speaker Confirmed: Sacha Berlik, Co-founder & CEO of Mexad, "Does Sales Exist in a Data-Driven Marketplace" Session confirmed: Matt Whaley, Director at Jemm Media, "Network Transparency: What Everyone Can See" It is the era of ad networks! From the…
Read More
Editor's note: This interview was originally posted on the Association of Online Publisher's website. Matt O'Neill will be chairing the AOP event: the New Rules of Revenue: Online Advertising 2010 on February 23.Find out more, or book your place online.What do you see as the biggest shifts in the way…
Read More
The United Kingdom has been at the cutting edge of digital advertising for a number of years, a harbinger of technology adoption and industry growth trends across the rest of Europe and the world. This has benefits and challenges. Robust adoption rates and forward-thinking customers means greater revenue opportunities, but…
Read More
The end of the year brings with it a ton of online advertising industry events. I looked forward to this year's crop with the goal of finding something that ad operations professionals from publishers could use to bring value to their companies. It seems to me that the majority of…
Read More
As we all know, display advertising can be operationally difficult across numerous elements. For advertisers, complexities arise in buying inventory, reaching the right users, and understanding the effectiveness of campaigns. With the proliferation of ad networks (over 600 globally), it’s not getting any easier. And the media industry continues to…
Read More
No one will argue that the Display marketplace is an incredibly fragmented and inefficient system. Try as they might this advertiser driven ecosystem has created a few problems long hidden by overinflated CPMs. First are the serious issues in the market’s ability to scale. Second, is the arbitrage and optimization…
Read MoreOverview One of the biggest and most potentially lucrative challenges that online publishers face is how to effectively manage and sell their most precious inventory. Challenges of visibility, inventory, and pricing have often resulted in sub-optimal inventory monetization. What can publishers do to create more visibility into their own inventory to…
Read More