Rob Deichert Jr., Senior Vice President of Ad Operations at The Weather Channel, will be presenting a Focus Session: Publisher Success Across Multiple Platforms: The Operations Opportunity at OPS in NY on September 30, 2010. In advance of the event we asked him a few questions about multiple delivery platforms…
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Ad Operations is the most widely used name for the department in a company that manages the advertising closed by account managers or sales reps.Fundamentally, Ad Operations is a team of ad traffic managers, although the overall team description is (or should be) more than just managing ads. These are…
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A few weeks ago, DM2PRO.com, in collaboration with Operative, asked AdMonsters to help reach out to our community of ad ops professionals to complete a survey on the issues facing Ad Operations. Mike Leo and Lorne Brown from Operative presented the results of that survey at DPAC a couple of…
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Recently, an Ad Operations colleague at a publisher contacted me about ad discrepancies. They started preparing for end of month billing: pulling their primary ad server campaign delivery reports pulling 3rd party ad server campaign delivery reports compressing the data from ad serving sources, and sending it all off to…
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There has been a lot of buzz lately about ad verification in the digital space. The media is writing about it, publishers and agencies are arguing about it, clients are asking questions about it, and providers are pushing it. The IAB even recently hosted a half-day conference to address this…
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According to the Bain Study “Building Brands Online”, in the next 3 years, brand marketers will spend close to 40% of their budget on cross-platform campaigns (up from roughly 25%). That’s about $52,000,000,000 being spent on cross platform campaigns in the near future. Unless you start making changes in your…
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Mike On Ads.So much of our time these days is spent talking about all the new features & capabilities that people are building into their adserving platforms. One component often neglected in these conversations is scalability.A hypothetical ad startupHere’s a pretty typical story.…
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The AdMonsters community is comprised of the top Ad Operations professionals in the industry. In a new feature for our site, we'll highlight members and ask them about what they are working on as well as their thoughts on a variety of topics.This week we feature Julian Zilberbrand, Vice President,…
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Editor's note: Originally posted on the Operative Blog.That seems to be the latest measurement buzz word. Now…let me ask in a different way. Can your Ad Sales and Ad Ops teams scale to achieve the NEW technical demands of media buyers?In 2010, digital publishers in the US and Europe that are…
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Despite a troubling economic climate for the advertising industry as a whole, 2010 is poised to be a banner year for online display advertising. Courtesy of a host of innovative data driven targeting innovations from companies like BlueKai and eXelate we can increasingly deliver on the promise of the “right…
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