We’ve spent some time establishing that "Audience Efficiency" (parts 1, 2, 3 and 4) is a new, more effective way to think about audience targeting campaign strategy. So, how about some proof?In essence, audience efficiency is targeting those audiences with online behaviors likely to show the highest lift in fit…
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Most CFOs and CEOs don’t like surprises. Wall Street doesn’t either.If you’re an online publisher, what’s likely got you scrambling now is the IAB/4A’s/ANA timeline for viewable impressions: starting Q1, parallel reporting begins. Not only will publishers be expected to report served impressions the same way as the past decade—publishers…
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So I see you over at your big ol' holding company office on Madison Ave. thinking to yourself, "Why should I, important agency person, haul my ass to 82 Mercer on Oct. 4 for OPS? What's in it for me?"Really, the question you should be asking is, "What's not in…
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Often someone attending an AdMonsters event or just perusing the website is heard to ask: "What exactly does 'Membership' mean? Am I member? What do I get? One of those cool 'Members Only' jackets?"For years, we've referred to anyone who has attended a recent conference as a "Member" and granted…
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Let's face it – it isn't easy to adapt to every change in our rapidly evolving market – even for the best of companies. Seemingly every day we learn about new platforms, new devices, new consumer behaviors and expectations, new forms of monetization, etc. And with startups continuously being launched…
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Leave it to Google to blur the lines between direct and indirect sales. In June, DoubleClick launched Preferred Deals in beta, allowing publishers to offer chosen buyers a sneak peek at certain inventory before it hit the wider exchange. However, the inventory is fixed-price – fixed price and non-guaranteed? Madness!…
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We often group advertisers into two buckets: the creative and the practical. But is one group really an extension of the other?Consider this analogy: if you went to the beach this summer, you probably spotted seashells and thought that the pattern on each shell was beautiful and unique – that…
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The RTB marketplace is not yet operating as a truly efficient market with equal benefit to both sides. This is due to basic economics: Supply exceeds demand, and auction-based pricing combined with low bid density results in a market rife with arbitrage.Buyers are accustomed to drawing from a large commoditized…
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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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Easel TV specialises in building apps for connected TVs, with clients including broadcasters, pay-TV operators, content producers and major consumer brands. I spoke to AdMonsters Screens speaker Bill Scott, COO of Easel, and asked him to explain the company’s proposition.BS: Our differentiator is that our apps feel much more like…
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