Morning pardners – despite chatting with our sponsors till late in the night at the YuMe-hosted opening reception, the crew here at the Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio seems bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, enjoying a little Southwestern-style breakfast and preparing for the admittedly packed first day of our first ever mobile-focused…
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So much of the confusion and concern over the hot topic of programmatic premium stems from equating real-time bidding and programmatic buying. Let's put it out there for what undoubtedly won't be the last time: the former is a subset of the latter. Still, that doesn't stop overactive imaginations from…
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You might have read yesterday that Facebook is set to make a lot of money in mobile. The company is further along when it comes to monetizing mobile than it was believed, and this boosted confidence in Facebook stock (which rose to close at $19.88 yesterday). With all the…
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Bain and Co. is getting a bad rap. There it is, I’ve said it. Might not be the coolest thing to say these days, but if you’re in the digital marketing, commerce or measurement business, you’re in a business that Bain has very positively affected. It’s time for the media…
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The broadcast networks’ furor over Dish Network’s AutoHop offering, which pretty much cuts the commercials right out of recorded primetime TV content, hasn’t just hit courtrooms, it also caught the eye of one of America’s top satirists. On June 26, Stephen Colbert dedicated a section of his show, “The Colbert…
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The funeral procession for mobile UDIDs trudges on, and you can imagine the mourners – mainly mobile ad tech specialists – limping after the casket, bawling their eyes out at the loss of the great consumer tracking tool. Or maybe not – numerous substitute solutions for mobile tracking have popped…
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Videoplaza has seen the future of online video, and it looks pretty fragmented. Hence why in March the company Introduced its device-aware ad platform Karbon, which enables publishers to monetise video content anywhere it is viewed – desktop, smartphone, tablet as well as up-and-coming toys joining the assortment of Internet-connected devices.As a…
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Prior to his OPS Markets NY (April 18!) presentation on taking control of the marketing mix via a DMP, Xaxis Managing Director of North America Paul Dolan stole a few moments to detail the many facets of WPP’s audience buying platform.Xaxis launched as WPP's central audience buying platform last year…
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Latin America, open your arms wide because Google is about to stuff them with a big present. At AdMonsters Brasil on April 24 in São Paulo, Google will announce the Latin American launch of the DoubleClick Ad Exchange (AdX), the real-time, impression-by-impression auction platform that assists ad networks, agencies and…
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“How many of you know what Big Data is?” asked Heidi Cohen, ClickZ columnist, adjunct NYU professor, President of Riverside Marketing Strategies and moderator of the panel discussion at the Media Cross Media (MXM) Big Data event. A decent percentage of the crowd gathered at the Corporate Tax Network’s offices…
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