One can recall a time in the recent past when the ePrivacy Directive appeared as an apparition on the horizon, a stern Directive, but one with vague requirements that no one seemed to be paying much mind. In the second quarter of 2012, the market shifted dramatically, led initially with…
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“There were too many advantages to ignore,” comments Aaron Jones, CTO of IDG Consumer and SMB, when explaining why the company embraced responsive design in rebranding and rebuilding two of the company’s most popular sites – PCWorld and Macworld. For one thing, unifying the back-end of those two sites –…
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You’ve got Salesforce.com. You’re managing contacts, and tracking the basics of campaigns, but you just can’t get it to generate a reliable monthly revenue forecast. This article is for you!The key for media companies is that the out of the box forecasting function just isn’t designed to work the way…
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A recent report from VINDICO Group cites research over 30bn impressions confirming that completion rate is a better metric for online video than CTR. As we head toward OPS TV, we sat down with James Grant, UK Manager of VINDICO Group, to get his take on online video metrics and…
Read MoreThis week, we caught up with Erich Wasserman, who co-founded MediaMath and led its sales and account teams as they built the first agency trading desks and incubated the DSP (demand-side platform) market. We asked him a few questions about automated media markets, especially how they've shaped the field for…
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Welcome one and all to this year’s only Publisher Forum in stunning Vienna. We have a fantastic lineup this year across three days of insight and peer-to-peer discussions. We’ll be keeping you up to speed as best we can with the live blog so keep an eye right here and…
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As part of The Guardian's Digital First strategy, the esteemed news outlet implemented and migrated to a booking system that encompass all of its products: print, desktop, mobile, app, you name it. During Publisher Forum Vienna next week, Danny Doyle, Commercial Ad Operations Team Leader, and colleague Rezaul Haque, Applications…
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One of the highlights of AdMonsters' OPS Markets event in New York was a panel dedicated to the future of programmatic selling, featuring representatives from isocket, Maxifier, Varick Media Management and WebMD. The consensus seemed to be that programmatic buying has but one place to go next: premium territory.But it…
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Let’s say you are a major auto brand manager with a hot new car to promote. You’ve decided to be a brand that takes risks, big risks. The plan is to tie your brand to the next 007 movie, and then for marketing purposes, give tickets away for free to…
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At the upcoming AdMonsters Vienna Publisher Forum, Richard Swan, Head of Advertising Operations at Hearst Magazines, will discuss the challenges and opportunities of video advertising. We caught up with Richard today to kick off a conversation about his experience in video advertising at Hearst and to get his opinion of…
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