The term seemed to be omnipresent at Digiday Exchange last Thursday. “Programmatic premium” – The phrase came up in many sessions and was overheard in chatter during coffee breaks. If programmatic premium had a scent, it would have lingered throughout the great hall of the W Hotel all day long.During…
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It's going to be a steamy day here in New York, but AdMonsters are keeping cool by the waters of the Chelsea Piers, where we've gathered for our inaugural OPS TV conference. LiveRail will kick off DISH Media's Warren Schlichting's keynote presentation on how to break and rebuild the TV…
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With a brutal heat wave hitting the East Coast over the last few weeks, the best activity has seemed to be cranking the air conditioning and curling up in front of the TV (as long as your power is still on). Or maybe it was watching a couple of flicks…
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The constant emergence of new online advertising technology often creates an adoption gap, where skepticism and marketplace confusion prevent many key stakeholders on both the buy and sell sides from implementing new technologies into their plans. We’re seeing it right now with real-time bidding (RTB), a technology that is experiencing…
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As we tick away the final days of 2011, hopefully you're planning your New Year's Eve party and not stressing out about yield management in 2012. Over here at AdMonsters, we're pondering the year to come for the ad operations community, and the first step is to examine what happened in…
Read MoreHow many of you know that Morgan Stanley’s advisory services division drives more than 15 percent of that firm’s annual revenue? That should come as no surprise, although it’s still shocking that so few of us use financial advisors. Financial planning is a complex undertaking with trained professionals who do…
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Last year when I first joined AdMonsters I wrote an article about the Video Ad Serving Template, commonly know as the VAST which is a XML standard proposed and maintained by the IAB. So what has become of VAST in the 12 months since? Has the industry embraced the VAST…
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