We seem to be in that sweet moment where artificial intelligence (actually advanced machine learning, but who are we to split hairs?) is more than just buzz and potential, but before the machines have enslaved us and forced us to farm their massive energon cube plantations. That day is coming—I…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 9, 2018 Choose Wisely: Crucial Criteria for Selecting an Ad Quality Provider It's not your imagination—most malvertising attacks do happen over weekends. Bad actors hope to catch ops when its guard is down, so the gatekeepers must always be vigilant. A robust ad-quality solution is an essential…
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It's not your imagination—most malvertising attacks do happen over weekends. Bad actors hope to catch ops when its guard is down, so the gatekeepers must always be vigilant. A robust ad-quality solution is an essential tool for a publisher, but finding the right one requires a great deal of due…
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Choose audience. Choose content. But wait—it's 2018, do media buyers really only get to pick one or the other? No, they shouldn't have to, writes Michael Hans. However, quality issues both in data and content have been holding us back from reaching the true potential of programmatic advertising; the time…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 2, 2018 Skipping the SDK in Mobile In-App If you want to see veins pop in your mobile developer’s head, just tell him or her you’ve got five new SDKs to integrate stat. Many a programmatic mobile in-app deal has evaporated at the very mention of the dreaded…
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With Google's DoubleClick Sales Manager riding off into the sunset in 2019, OMS migration is high on the minds of publishers across the digital mediascape. (We've even got a commiseration session about it at PubForum Portland in a few weeks.) Migration management is all about reducing pain, and nothing quite…
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If you want to see veins pop in your mobile developer’s head, just tell him or her you’ve got five new SDKs to integrate stat. Many a programmatic mobile in-app deal has evaporated at the very mention of the dreaded SDK. But what if you could on-board a native demand…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 26, 2018 A Road Map For OMS Migrations We know some of you are still patting yourselves on the back for coming out the other end of the GDPR launch unscathed, but this is ad tech, folks—the next crisis is always coming sooner than you expect. The…
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We know some of you are still patting yourselves on the back for coming out the other end of the GDPR launch unscathed, but this is ad tech, folks—the next crisis is always coming sooner than you expect. The sunsetting of Google's order management system DSM means an order management…
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Shy little Rob Beeler was quite nervous at his first PubForum in 2004, but he did learn a ton from the knowledgable nice guy he sat next to. Fourteen years later, that guy—Twitch SVP of Revenue Scott Newton—is the Monday morning keynote at 2018 Portland PubForum. Rob muses on the…
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