Our friends over at LiveRamp have put together this insightful infographic charting recent developments in revenue strategies for publishers – you guessed it, a lot of the data circulates around RTB. Currently 44% of publishers surveyed are using RTB, which is estimated to handle around $6.5 billion in ad spend gloabally by…
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A longtime presence in the data management and marketplace arena, Lotame closed off its data-driven ad network to new customers in August in the hopes of building more interest in its data management platform, Crowd Control – the move was successful, with a dozen new publishers and content groups signing…
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When the EU Privacy Directive on cookies came into effect in May of this year – the first time the legislation had been updated since 1995 – it left a lot of people in the industry scratching their heads as to what it meant and for whom. As with any…
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Following years of unfulfilled hype, mobile is now undeniably becoming a staple of mainstream media consumption, spurred for the main part by the success of the iOS and Android ecosystems. However, despite rapid advancements in mobile Internet usage, advertising revenues for the medium severely lag behind that of other digital…
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The AdMonsters US Content Team, Gavin Dunaway and Maria Tucker, are excited to bring you this live blog from AdMonsters OPS Mobile at NYC's Metropolitan Pavilion. Stay tuned to see what's rocking the mobile ad world! GD8:30 – Sipping a piping hot cup of coffee, nibbling on a croisant and watching…
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I don’t know what to expect when I load the Sonar app on my iPhone and click on the WIRED holiday pop-up store in Times Square, NYC. Lo and behold, numerous names instantly appear, all of them in my general proximity. My Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare accounts are hooked into…
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According to FreeWheel's recently released "Video Monetization Report" for third quarter 2011, short-form video (under 5 minutes) and mid-form video (over five, less than 20) have a primetime interval of 1 p.m. to 4 p.m, while long-form episodic video (over 20) has a primetime that mimics television – 8 p.m.…
Read MoreOxford is a city that promises to broaden the mind. My thoughts on what makes a great publishing business were certainly enlightened by Greg Taylor, one of the keynote speakers at the AdMonsters Publisher Forum at Oxford. Greg has his Doctorate in Economics and is a research fellow at the…
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If you got the right stuff, it’s not a bad idea to get a stamp of approval. Multi-channel ad server Smart AdServer just emerged from an intense four-month audit of its systems as the first U.S. certified mobile ad server according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mobile Guidelines. We sat…
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As a mobile ad network that developed across Asia-Pacific before launching in the U.S. and E.U. in 2010, InMobi boasts a unique perspective on the global mobile revolution and reaching international audiences at scale. Prior to the OPS Mobile event Dec. 7 Mobile OPS event in NYC, AdMonsters caught up…
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