AdMonsters Europe XI European Marketing Partners see also: sponsorship — agenda will be held Registration Attendance is open to individuals employed by European online media publishing companies and advertising networks, whose roles focus on online advertising operations and/or advertising technology. If you are already an AdMonsters member, please visit…
Read MoreLeadership Forum US VIII AdMonsters Leadership Forum, held twice a year, brings together the most senior members from across the online ad operations community for a day of workshops, member-led presentations, and peer-certified best practice recommendations. This forum is truly a meeting of the minds for those leading operations…
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It may have been so in the past, but for today’s publishers, exchanges should not be seen simply as a platform for selling your non-guaranteed inventory. They are fast becoming a solution to enable you to further develop your business whilst helping to maximise your sell-through rates and increase your…
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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…
Read MoreOutsourcing is increasingly under review by many publishers for all aspects of their business, including ad operations. If you do decide to go with an outsourcer, one of the major challenges is designing and implementing the service level agreement, or SLA. The SLA is meant to define success metrics, help govern…
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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…
Read MoreNick Denton, CEO of Gawker Media, has his own take on what online ad spend will look like in 2009 and it's not pretty. It's a compelling argument and gloomier than anything else I've read. But with this bad news, Denton also provides a plan - something most ad spend…
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal is one of the latest to point out that the field of ad networks is overcrowded. Expect a steady stream over the next number of months of ad networks closing their doors, laying people off or consolidating. For ad operations it's important to prepare for the…
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