What Are You—Media Person or Tech Person?
Are you a tech person or a media person? Rob Beeler is happy to be both, and says ops should embrace the responsibility they have to support quality media.
Read MoreAre you a tech person or a media person? Rob Beeler is happy to be both, and says ops should embrace the responsibility they have to support quality media.
Read MoreIs LinkedIn the New Facebook (for Content Distribution)? LinkedIn is reportedly firming up relationships with publishers in the U.S. and the U.K., according to Digiday, and a growing number of publishers are getting more serious about using LinkedIn as a content distribution channel. (They’re not just B2B publishers, either). LinkedIn…
Read MoreBrand safety is a hot topic again (or is it "still?"). Part of what's complicated about brand safety is that it encompasses a whole set of issues—and also, what's top-of-mind for publishers in this discussion isn't always the same as what's top-of-mind for brands and marketers. Adam Moser of Hulu…
Read MoreIn last week's webinar that AdMonsters hosted with sponsor Roxot, "Measuring Up to Revenue Analytics," we got into a new meaning of "WTF." As presenters Alex Kharitoshin (from Roxot) and Bodhi Short (from Cordless Media) explained, sometimes "WTF" stands for "Why the fall (in revenue)?" or "Where's the fill?" In…
Read MoreReal talk for a second: Whenever you hear me griping about the myriad things Facebook doesn’t do well, either for users or for its publisher partners, I’m probably subconsciously trying to convince myself of something. I’m a social media addict, and I suppose I have been ever since the Geocities…
Read MoreAdMonsters Webinar: Future-Proof Your Rate Card from AdMonsters on Vimeo. Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 1:00 PM EST When you’re thinking about optimizing your revenue and managing relationships with buy-side clients, you need an dynamic and responsive rate strategy. Advertisers’ and agencies’ needs can change suddenly—moving from content-based buys to audience…
Read MoreSurvey Says: Ads.txt Adopted by Over Half of U.S. Publishers OpenX ran an audit on the comScore top 1,000 publishers in the U.S., and found that over 50% had adopted ads.txt. It feels like we were just saying, “Ads.txt is something that should happen in order to clean up the…
Read MoreView the presentation here. We all know there’s great power in data when it comes to digital media monetization, but unlocking the potential can be laborious, frustrating… and even fruitless. The massive amounts of data flowing throughout the digital advertising ecosystem is both a blessing and curse—it may seem plenty,…
Read MoreBack on Jan. 11, Facebook announced it was switching up its news feed algorithm to prioritize original posts from users, and to de-prioritize links to news stories. Following uproar and confusion from publishers and marketers about how much good or ill that will do to users, Facebook came back this…
Read MoreThe discussion around brand safety has risen from a murmur to a prolonged roar, and it doesn’t seem to be quieting down anytime soon. In part, that’s because more issues and more sub-threads keep getting pulled into that discussion. My colleague Gavin Dunaway wrote a bit about this recently, and…
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