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…
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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…
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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…
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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 MoreAdMonsters Network Ad Ops Forum Join us for the launch of a new AdMonsters event in the United States specifically designed for leaders in online technology and ad operations at advertising networks.Note: This Event is Sold Out! AdMonsters, the on-line advertising industry's only professional association exclusively dedicated to operations and…
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As an industry, it’s taken us more than 15 years to get a grip on dealing with remnant ad inventory, but I think there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel. Over the past two or three years in particular, the R&D that’s gone toward solving this problem…
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Sweeping generalization time: Publishers focus direct sales efforts on maintaining a $20 CPM and when they can't sell it, throw those impressions to remnant networks and hope they get a $1 CPM for it. As I said, it's a sweeping generalization, but most publishers continue to struggle with getting CPMs…
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