Sweeping generalization time: Publishers focus direct sales efforts on maintaining a $20 CPM and when they can't sell it, throw those impressions to remnant networks and hope they get a $1 CPM for it. As I said, it's a sweeping generalization, but most publishers continue to struggle with getting CPMs…
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Last week was our 12th Publisher Forum in Europe and it was quite frankly a huge success. Prague provided a great location for the event and all of the sessions were quite interactive. I'll be working with the session leaders to see if I can get them to summarize their…
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This past Thursday AdMonsters had our 2nd Ad Ops 360 event in the US. Ad Ops 360 is a special event for us because it's an extension of our training programs and instead of a room full of senior Ad Operations leaders, we have junior and middle level ad ops…
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As we've been approaching our Online Technical Forum this Thursday April 23rd at 11am EST, the response that I've received about this particular topic has been very interesting. For many, there is great interest in somehow moving the ball on this issue. For others it's a foregone conclusion that publishers…
Read MorePeter Naylor, SVP of NBC Universal referenced John Lennon's lyrics "Nobody told me there'd be days like these" during his keynote presentation at AdMonsters' 20th Publisher Forum in New Orleans last week. The fact that we are in uncharted waters certainly permeated the entire event, but everyone was focused on…
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Surprise! Your company just released a new ad-supported product without the knowledge of ad operations. Better hurry and get those ad tags deployed, so you can get rid of those blank ad spaces! To avoid this unwelcome turn of events, it is essential to take proactive management of the whole…
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I went to one of my traffickers to get the scoop on a major campaign that had been canceled. "Yeah," he said, "the cancellation order just came through. No reason given." I started to walk away when he said, "I knew it wasn't going to work anyway." He then went…
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Two documents by Pubmatic came out yesterday that are of interest to Ad Operation teams. The Q4 2008 AdPrice Index is helpful as a gauge for publishers on what returns they should be seeing from their network efforts - outsourced or not. The numbers compared to a year ago just…
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The coming of a new year brings out the prognosticators in full force and there are plenty of predictions for what's coming in 2009 out there. The difference this year versus prior years is the size and degree of the disclaimers that come with these predictions. Never have I seen…
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By the time publishers are seriously considering contract management services, they have experienced such operational pain that they are ready to do the proverbial “head nod”. In other words, as an organization they acknowledge the need WITHOUT understanding the implications on operations and workflow. In order to successfully launch contract…
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