When you work in digital advertising and follow industry blog after industry blog, you begin to notice a pattern. All the crowd writes about and seems to care about is data management. Data is our future! Data is our only hope! Perhaps due to the astronomic rise of Internet usage…
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What do you see as the biggest challenges to mobile advertising achieving its potential? How does Nexage attack these challenges?There are challenges, but more important, they are against a backdrop of strong tailwinds based on the broad recognition – by buyers and sellers – of the unique and strategic value…
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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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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…
Read MoreThe Sunday Times recently ran a story about how ordinary families could make money out of YouTube's new policy of rewarding those who upload popular videos with a share of the revenue optimised against that content. To illustrate the point, the writer hung the story on the success of the…
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Save $100 on Street Fight Summit 2011, Oct. 25-26, NYCIt's pretty clear that 2011 has been an inflection point for location. Local targeting tools on the Web and mobile devices grows easier -- but defining the best strategies to apply them remains an ongoing issue. On Oct. 25 and 26 in…
Read MoreI was recently asked to lead a session "What New Page Designs and New Ad Units Mean for Ad Ops" at Admonsters Publisher Forum held in San Diego this past August. When I was hashing out topics with the organizers, we quickly identified a topic that hit quite close to…
Read MoreMany digital publishers are experiencing an identity crisis. They’re asking themselves, ‘Am I a digital publisher, or a systems integrator?’ Unfortunately, the answer isn’t clear. As a member of a software company, I find the context of the question the most interesting. Publishers and systems integrators are no longer mutually…
Read MoreLast week I was fortunate enough to be able to jump down to Mexico City for IAB Mexico's Conecta conference. It was my first visit to Mexico and also my first time at Conecta, and it proved to be a very productive and enjoyable trip. Thanks to my old friend Dave…
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