There can be a tendency to confuse "standards" with over-simplification in advertising and media. Companies in the IAB Digital Video Committee (in which my company, OneScreen, participates) come together to create standards that reasonably accommodate the industry’s current needs based on their respective business and technical requirements. With standards adoption…
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Fall is the time of year when brands invest in targeting students and families online. For one, advertisers have started to analyze the effectiveness of their back-to-school campaigns, especially when online shopping activity is on the upswing. In addition, smart brands are using the results of back-to-school campaigns to modify…
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Jason Kelly has been around a few blocks – and we mean that in the nicest way possible. Following his ascent to the role of CEO for the globally expanding buying platform Sociomantic, we caught up with him to talk about his journeys to just about every corner of the…
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New global partnership provides unique, robust and pragmatic consulting solutions for digital media companies. New York (October 1, 2012) – AdMonsters, the global professional community and source of strategic insight for digital advertising operations, technology and strategy announced today a new partnership with Acceleration, the leading digital marketing technology services and…
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After 24 years at Publicis, with the most recent role being CEO at the VivaKi Nerve Center, Curt Hecht made the leap across the aisle to joining his old VivaKi boss David Kenny at The Weather Channel. But making his move to the role of Global Chief Revenue Officer wasn't just…
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In Madrona's last post at AdMonsters, we highlighted how you can set up Salesforce to forecast media sales. This article builds on that approach and adds a technique to blend data from the ad server to get a true all-up revenue forecast.Revenue Forecasting Is More Than Just Tracking SalesRevenue forecasting…
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Interest-based remarketing has been available to the industry for years. Today, most marketers who’ve been using remarketing execute it wisely -- and with skill. As a single method, remarketing has practically become an industry standard.But, if you look closely, this approach appears to be a preferred performance marketing measure. At…
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I’ve been asked by several publishers what I think about viewable impressions. While there has been lots of press extolling its virtues and equal amounts of questions and concerns about the implications, there hasn’t been a realistic discussion of how to manage the pricing of viewable impressions (VI). A core selling…
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To energize the crowd at Adap.tv's inaugural Adapt Conference, CEO, cofounder and emcee Amir Ashkenazi asked all buy side representatives – be they agency, DSP or brand people – to stand up. After that group rose, he beckoned all supply siders in the room to get on their feet. With…
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India is one of the global leaders in the overall services outsourcing market. This is a well-established fact and outsourcing has contributed significantly to the growth in key Indian cities such as Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad since late 90s. Everyone – right from the bigger Industry players such as Microsoft,…
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