The past two weeks’ Olympic triumphs and tragedies have driven home to me the importance of publishers’ need to use technology to monetize dramatic spikes in traffic. Ok, you wonder how I can make the leap from sports spectaculars to advertising inventory monetization.London 2012 is an amazing – actually a…
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Welcome to the AdMonsters Daily Digest! We scour the news for digital advertising and operations news every day so you don’t have to – we’re nice like that. We’ll be updating this page throughout the day but have a peruse of all the news you can use (that’s right –…
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"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." – George Bernard Shaw Stand back and look at the advancements in online display ads and it’s…
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Olympic fever seems to have hit every person in the world except for me. As an avid skier, I love the Winter Games, but I just can't get into all this running and shot-putting and pole-vaulting that the summer games offer. Where's the luge, dude? Why would I want to…
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There's been a lot of talk recently about Facebook's warm hug with a few select Demand Side Platforms. This is not a surprise move by Facebook and neither are the restrictions they are placing on buyers. For example, only allowing buyers to bring their own data. Targeting data from Facebook…
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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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Following Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s hints early in the week of a possible separation, News Corp. announced on June 28 it’s splitting its massive media operation into two parts. One entity will house the newspaper and book publishing business while the other is home to the entertainment side (which includes the…
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In this week's AdMonsters Industry Roundup, we bring you the latest news from Casale Media, VideoHub, Visual IQ & more, with industry insights from David Berkowitz of 360i and Nikhil Sethi of Adaptly. Check it out below! VideoHub Provides Awesome Digital Video InsightsVideoHub, an end-to-end analytics and monetization platform built exclusively…
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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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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