Peter Naylor, SVP of NBC Universal referenced John Lennon's lyrics "Nobody told me there'd be days like these" during his keynote presentation at AdMonsters' 20th Publisher Forum in New Orleans last week. The fact that we are in uncharted waters certainly permeated the entire event, but everyone was focused on…
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Two documents by Pubmatic came out yesterday that are of interest to Ad Operation teams. The Q4 2008 AdPrice Index is helpful as a gauge for publishers on what returns they should be seeing from their network efforts - outsourced or not. The numbers compared to a year ago just…
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The coming of a new year brings out the prognosticators in full force and there are plenty of predictions for what's coming in 2009 out there. The difference this year versus prior years is the size and degree of the disclaimers that come with these predictions. Never have I seen…
Read MoreOn December 11th, the IAB UK and AdMonsters hosted a technical forum on buy-side trading systems. While I was not able to attend myself, all indications are that the event succeeded in bringing together the relevant stakeholders from leading agencies and media owners in the UK. The two groups collaborated…
Read MoreThe FTC issued a press release on Wednesday regarding companies that distribute malicious code through advertising: Original Article: Court Halts Bogus Computer Scans MikeOnAds.com summary: FTC lays down the law on Errorsafe/Malvertising Malvertising/Malware continues to plague our industry, hurting the reputation of major publishers, agencies and networks and convincing more…
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When it comes to inventory reports, we don’t go far enough in creating the solutions that fit our needs. As an industry, our mindset is to do the best we can, and live with the cards we are dealt by whatever ad serving solution we utilize. But the truth of…
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This past October was my first opportunity to attend an AdMonsters in Europe and my expectation is that I'd find European ad operation teams dealing with similar issues as we do in the US, but I was excited that perhaps it would present some unique ideas and approaches to these…
Read MoreIn our last update we provided some highlights from Bowen's talk at DPAC II early last week about the need for renewed and increased focus on operational excellence in online ad operations. Later in the week we attended the fourth annual IAB Ad Operations Summit, held October 30, 2008, at…
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