It’s a common adage in retail (brick and mortar as well as digital) that the customer doesn’t cease to exist once he/she leaves the store. The same logic applies to digital publishing: when someone exits a media company’s digital property, that user doesn’t vanish into thin air, and neither does…
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A number of partners I’ve been working with have mentioned casually that they are experimenting with creating a marketplace in their adserver by collapsing the prioritization settings. For a lot of publishers, this is the latest version of the struggle with sales channel conflict that they have been wrestling with…
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Many leading digital publishers are meeting the challenge of growing revenues with varying degrees of success. However, one challenge that remains a constant is the ability to grow profitability at the same rate or faster than revenue.The predominant focus of many leading organizations remains yield (or eCPM). Adroit sales and…
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Mobile’s potential beckons like a field of dreams but whether it becomes a reality depends on the ability to build consumer trust for your platform or business. Mobile usage is surging. Gartner Group forecasts mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web access device worldwide within the next…
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You have to hand it to print magazine publishers — they are naturals when it comes to clever integrated advertising campaigns that engage readers. I remember flipping through a print magazine by Condé Nast when a series of interviews with bar owners in New York talking about their favorite vodka…
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Some “facts” you might not know about me, particularly if you’re going by the picture on the upper right hand side of this page.I’m a married male head of household who speaks Spanish. I have two teenage children and a high school diploma. I’m retired. My income is below $50,000.…
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A few weeks ago, we posted a poll asking ad ops professionals to tell us how they were handling the Q4 traffic deluge. Our poll asked ten questions and went into the nitty gritty of how ad operations teams deal with high volume seasons. We are posting the full results…
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Digital Ad Spending Continues to Grow at Double-Digit RatesIt's little secret that investment in digital advertising is growing worldwide; that the audience for digital ads is growing; and, that publishers are slowly turning their backs on print. But, just how fast is digital taking over the reins?Well, if ad spending…
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In our work at Krux, especially with our Data Sentry and Inspector products, we see many different approaches for firing pixels, some good, some not as good. We'd like to see the industry adopt better practices for delivering pixels to end users.First - when I say "pixel", I mean an…
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While RTB may be nearly ubiquitous among U.S. publishers these days, adoption of the technology across the Atlantic has taken a much more leisurely pace. This isn’t that surprising considering that issues from privacy to highly localized markets make integrating automated selling systems across the European landscape a seemingly Herculean…
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