One of the advantages of having been in the business as long as I have is perspective (okay, hold off on the “old” jokes). Over the past 14 years, I’ve seen a tremendous amount of complexity arise around the lack of interoperability between digital marketing technologies and the sites they…
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Read MoreI've heard from numerous publishers that they are regularly overbooked when it comes to video ads; some ad ops teams are actually seeking out ways to drive more video traffic on their sites. Overbooking has become an unwanted trend as video exploded this year ($2 billion in spend!), but the…
Read MoreOnline video ad spending is expected to grow more than 43% next year, but even rapid adoption and eager ad buyers can’t overcome the complexity of multiple video ad formats. This crazy patchwork quilt of formats has been suffocating video, as the nascent industry leaps ahead of standards. Luckily, the…
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This week Infectious Media released their Insight Report on the state of the Real Time Bidding market in Europe and there was some interesting findings - especially arising from the more mature UK market. The report states that the RTB market in Europe is continuing to grow, currently the European…
Read MoreOur 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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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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While Google introduced core mobile ad serving capabilities to the DoubleClick for Publishers ad serving suite last summer, the company is just now releasing the real mobile muscle. Launched today (check out the blog post), DFP Mobile offers support for a wide array of mobile rich media ad formats such…
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