Strong LeadershipWhen I was first hired to be a traffic manager in 1998, founding the ad ops department for Mail.com, in the interview my hiring manager said, "We don't want a 'yes' man." What did she mean by that? Ad Operations workers are generally analytical and technical people, and most…
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The world of creative in online advertising is constantly evolving. It seems that every month we’re reading about new types of creative that can be implemented on a publisher’s web site. While many still use plain images to do their advertising (and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that!), we are…
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Ad Operations is the most widely used name for the department in a company that manages the advertising closed by account managers or sales reps.Fundamentally, Ad Operations is a team of ad traffic managers, although the overall team description is (or should be) more than just managing ads. These are…
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It's only a couple of days left now. I'm always excited about going to the Admonster's Publisher Forum and this year is no exception. In-fact, this year I'm extra excited.Beyond the fact that the Publisher Forum is always a really nice event to be at, and that it's this year…
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According to the Bain Study “Building Brands Online”, in the next 3 years, brand marketers will spend close to 40% of their budget on cross-platform campaigns (up from roughly 25%). That’s about $52,000,000,000 being spent on cross platform campaigns in the near future. Unless you start making changes in your…
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Editor's note: This article was originally posted on the Krux Digital Blog.Overview Cookies are the primary mechanism by which publishers, advertisers, ad networks, ad exchanges, demand side platforms and data exchanges store and track information about users. Cookies are domain specific — in other words, a Cookie set by domain…
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Editor's Note: This blog article originally appeared on the Unicast Blog.Our clients are always in search of the next big thing, the out-of-the-box solution that will make a big impact. I’ve seen some great out-of-the-box executions both from our internal clients and out there on the web as a regular…
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The advertising world rejoiced today with the announcement that the complexity of buying and selling online advertising had been solved. The company X, formerly known as The Doubleyieldmeldmatictail Project, has been working secretly for months with a select group of agencies and publishers to beta test their products, BUD (Buy…
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Editor's note: This interview was originally posted on the Association of Online Publisher's website. Matt O'Neill will be chairing the AOP event: the New Rules of Revenue: Online Advertising 2010 on February 23.Find out more, or book your place online.What do you see as the biggest shifts in the way…
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The only thing that is constant in our business is change. Whether you’ve worked for a start up, or an established publisher, chances are you’ve been at one end of a merger or acquisition. If you’re lucky, the powers that be will have conducted a complete due diligence which would…
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