So I see you over at your big ol' holding company office on Madison Ave. thinking to yourself, "Why should I, important agency person, haul my ass to 82 Mercer on Oct. 4 for OPS? What's in it for me?"Really, the question you should be asking is, "What's not in…
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Leave it to Google to blur the lines between direct and indirect sales. In June, DoubleClick launched Preferred Deals in beta, allowing publishers to offer chosen buyers a sneak peek at certain inventory before it hit the wider exchange. However, the inventory is fixed-price – fixed price and non-guaranteed? Madness!…
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Easel TV specialises in building apps for connected TVs, with clients including broadcasters, pay-TV operators, content producers and major consumer brands. I spoke to AdMonsters Screens speaker Bill Scott, COO of Easel, and asked him to explain the company’s proposition.BS: Our differentiator is that our apps feel much more like…
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Making the dive into programmatic buying can be daunting, but a lot less so when fortified policies are in place. Below is an amalgam of how aggressive Media Trust clients in particular address ad quality and data leakage issues, split into four quality segments. Ad Security Data Security Ad Quality…
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Yes, audience data is kind of a monster to most publishers, but it's a friendly one, kind of like the wiseacres in Monsters, Inc. Really, you can't be scared to embrace it. Before he explains the art of audience market navigation to the Boston PubForum audience, we caught up with DoubleClick…
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The term seemed to be omnipresent at Digiday Exchange last Thursday. “Programmatic premium” – The phrase came up in many sessions and was overheard in chatter during coffee breaks. If programmatic premium had a scent, it would have lingered throughout the great hall of the W Hotel all day long.During…
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On Wednesday, Boston PubForum sponsor and digital video specialist Visible Measures announced it had hauled in an impressive $21.5 million in funding. We caught up with Paul Botto, GM of Analytics & SVP of Business Development, to hear how the company has pushed beyond its video analytics roots, the value of…
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When I first heard about second screen companion app Squawka I could barely contain my excitement. As a football (ahem soccer) enthusiast I've always been keen on the stat side of the game and Squawka looks set to be a stat monkey's dream. I sat down with the CEO & co-founder to…
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Welcome to the AdMonsters Daily Digest! We scour the news for digital advertising and operations news every day so you don’t have to – we’re nice like that. We’ll be updating this page throughout the day but have a peruse of all the news you can use (that’s right…
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There is so much noise around the ePrivacy Directive in the marketplace that at times it can feel as though everyone has a different plan for how to come into compliance. In reality, compliance approaches only seem complicated when they are based on short-term improvements that fall short of the…
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