At Internet Week in NY, Turn announced it's new data management platform (DMP), called the Turn Audience Platform. According to the press release, the platform, "integrates Fortune 500 brands and leading advertising agencies into the industry’s first open ecosystem for audience targeting, enabling them to discover and connect with the…
Read MoreWith 2012 elections rapidly approaching, new digital advertising regulatory threats are appearing almost daily. Considering that browser cookies today are used for most measurement and targeting technologies, any drastic changes could mean an effective collapse of today's digital ad ecosystem as we know it. In a seminal but prescient study, Norm Proselytizers Create…
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GhostWriter lets you prioritize when and how you load third-party content, like ads. Your users see what they’re looking for sooner which increases engagement and improves your search engine rankings.One of the ways it does this is by introducing a smarter replacement for the standard document.write method. Couple this intelligent…
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We saw that Google Analytics now supported Page Load Time metrics out-of-the-box and started thinking about how we might be able to use GhostWriter’s insights into third-party content (read: ads) performance to give users of both GhostWriter and Google Analytics highly granular performance measurements. GhostWriter’s hooks allow you to execute…
Read MoreDigital media decision making is constantly evolving, and with demand-side platforms, digital agencies have set up lightning-fast environments for buying and selling a variety of online ad impressions, similar to the computerized stock trading desks used by quantitative traders. DSPs are remaking the media landscape and increasingly blurring the boundaries…
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Recently Intergi Entertainment announced their partnership with advertising technology provider ADTECH. ADTECH is powering the ad management for Playwire, an online video platform. Read the release. We spoke with Jayson Dubin, CEO of Intergi Entertainment for further details on this unique product offering and video ad serving standards.Q: Please tell…
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(But using them is still an art.)By Thomas Siegman, VP Client Services, RSG Media & Mayank Agarwal, Product Manager, Zoox AnalyticsA spate of new tools is letting publishers take back their place at the table, giving them critical insights into inventory management, pricing, and products—a position that they were in…
Read MoreDear AdMonsters, Let me start by saying that I am doing a session on this topic in Memphis next week. If you are going and will be joining the session, please send feedback before Monday and I can incorporated it into the presentation. Since Google announced that page load time…
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I’m back in San Francisco for a few days in between the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting (IABALM) and AdMonsters Publisher Forum XIV in Memphis. IABALM is a sea of C-level execs from “all” the top media and technology companies and I ran into a ton of old friends as well…
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Editor's note: The post originally appeared on the UM blog.The world of Digital Ad Operations has changed dramatically over the past year. It was just over a year ago that we all started using acronyms like DSP, RTB, SSP, and DCO on a regular basis. In fact, I remember having…
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