Imagine you’re a brand and you’ve contracted an agency or vendor to run a direct-response display ad campaign. You’ve allowed 30 days post-view and post-click ad attribution, along with allowing pixels (both retargeting and conversion) to be placed throughout your sales funnel. After some initial hiccups, everything seems to be going…
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Is header bidding an addiction? It seems once you get your first demand source implemented you just get hungry for more and more (as long as latency isn't an issue). Fortunately, there's a simple tech fixit to enable your desire for greater numbers of header bidding partners: the wrapper. One…
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The prognosis for programmatic video looks pretty bright: eMarketer estimates that ad spend will hit $5.37 billion in 2016, which is more than 50% of total predicted digital video ad spend ($9.59 billion). However, the current situation is a bit cloudier: issues with latency and standards are making premium publishers…
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Theorem’s 2015 survey of viewability trends, conducted for InSkin Media, show that challenges in measurement abound on both sides of the Atlantic. We asked Theorem VP of Digital Strategy Dominic Finney about differences in viewability between North America and Europe, how publishers can avert the effects of divergent measurement methods…
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As the ultimate destination for advertising and interface for users, digital publishers have long borne the responsibility of preventing malvertising and other nasty business from sneaking through. However, quality control is imperative for all the players in the advertising chain – and in the last few years, exchanges and other…
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The challenge for digital publishers, in a nutshell: Keep your business profitable enough to continue producing quality content, via an ad-supported model... while acknowleding users' awareness of, and frequent resistance to, being advertised to... while also confronting advertisers' increasing hesitancy to pay for any ad space users can't see easily...…
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AdMonsters Tech Forum, March 17, 1-5 p.m.The Tech Forum is a half-day deep dive into publisher ad operations tactics and technology. Part training and part conference, the AdMonsters Tech Forum will feature ad ops experts leading interactive discussions that traffickers and managers face on a daily basis. Come ready to…
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When the iPhone App Store opened its metaphorical doors in 2008, it signaled a dawning age for digital media. Applications were by no means a new phenomenon—the majority of software on laptops, smartphones, tablets and other connected devices are applications. But accessing online media through an application other than a…
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In “15 Million Merits” – my favorite episode from the contemporary “Twilight Zone”-esque anthology, “Black Mirror” – our dystopian future protagonist lies in his cubicle-like bedroom with no walls, but a giant video screen that also serves as a wall. After a long day of riding a stationary bike at…
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For years, GroupM honchos have said that ads not seen by human beings should not be paid for. Now media agency is making good on that promise – in addition to numerous US publishers billing off a 100% viewable impression standard, AdNews Australia reports that nine Australian publishers have cut…
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