Download the presentation at Ad-Juster's website. 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT For years, the digital advertising world was entranced by the potential of increasing automation, but now the pendulum is swinging back toward that human touch in ad deals. That means publishers need to revisit the best ways to manage…
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AdMonsters new and old have assembled for another heady three and a half days of ops education and commiseration at the 41st Publisher Forum. This time, we're in Palm Springs, CA, in palm tree-studded valley surrounded by beautiful but forbidding mountain ranges. In other words, it's a lot like ops,…
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Anyone can make a guess about why it's taken 20 years or so for the digital media industry to make standardizing data nomenclature a priority. Admittedly, "data nomenclature" doesn't really roll off the tongue, and if anyone thinks spreadsheets are sexy, they're probably a pretty niche group.Yet data nomenclature is…
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It’s been a bit of a crazy time in AdMonsters-land – besides merging with Access Intelligence, I’ve been heavy into programming the upcoming OPS conference, June 9 in NYC. However, I just received a bunch of video clips back from our most recent Publisher Forum in Sonoma and it made…
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Updated Below. One of my first questions to AdMonsters Publisher Forum Keynote Mike Smith, General Manager of Core Audience and VP of Revenue Platforms and Digital , was, “What the hell is a supply-side trading desk?”He smiled wryly, probably because what sounds like the latest industry buzzword is a pretty apt…
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As I mentioned in the first part of this wrap-up of the Publisher Forum: Sonoma and the Native Advertising Summit, questions surrounding native seem to spring eternal: do utilitarian campaigns perform better than ones that are simply entertaining? As publishers and brands get bolder and wiser, we’ll have much more…
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The Weather Outside is Frightful, but Sonoma Is So DelightfulAnd we’ll be letting it flow rather than letting it snow! The cold temperatures of Silicon Alley have much of the AdMonsters team huddled against our SAD lamps, dreaming of the greener pastures to come when we head to Sonoma for…
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Deadspin Didn't Bring Home the Bacon on Te'o StoryAs your Facebook and Twitter feeds might have indicated, one of the biggest news stories this week – providing Lance Armstrong some welcome shade from the media glare – was the deception of/by Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend. As AdAge reports, although…
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This summer I ran into a friend at a ho-hum conference in midtown – the energy in the room was markedly low, which at first I was willing to chalk up to summer sluggishness. However, as we were chatting, I realized it was something more – we both commented that…
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The frustrations of the world of digital media operations are many, though assumptions about its preeminent position for highly qualitative and accountable messaging are rarely questioned. Yet if the digital world is so great with respect to accountable and qualitative measurement, why do we have so many issues compared to…
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