The question of viable, sustainable and tangible metrics in digital marketing isn't one that is going away any time soon. More and more agencies are demanding better metrics from us and publishers too see the benefit in 'premium inventory'. We've been fully across the 'Viewable Impressions' metric that gained popularity last…
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It's going to be a steamy day here in New York, but AdMonsters are keeping cool by the waters of the Chelsea Piers, where we've gathered for our inaugural OPS TV conference. LiveRail will kick off DISH Media's Warren Schlichting's keynote presentation on how to break and rebuild the TV…
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One can recall a time in the recent past when the ePrivacy Directive appeared as an apparition on the horizon, a stern Directive, but one with vague requirements that no one seemed to be paying much mind. In the second quarter of 2012, the market shifted dramatically, led initially with…
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In this week's AdMonsters Industry Roundup, we bring you the latest news from Casale Media, VideoHub, Visual IQ & more, with industry insights from David Berkowitz of 360i and Nikhil Sethi of Adaptly. Check it out below! VideoHub Provides Awesome Digital Video InsightsVideoHub, an end-to-end analytics and monetization platform built exclusively…
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The constant emergence of new online advertising technology often creates an adoption gap, where skepticism and marketplace confusion prevent many key stakeholders on both the buy and sell sides from implementing new technologies into their plans. We’re seeing it right now with real-time bidding (RTB), a technology that is experiencing…
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A recent report from VINDICO Group cites research over 30bn impressions confirming that completion rate is a better metric for online video than CTR. As we head toward OPS TV, we sat down with James Grant, UK Manager of VINDICO Group, to get his take on online video metrics and…
Read MoreThis week, we caught up with Erich Wasserman, who co-founded MediaMath and led its sales and account teams as they built the first agency trading desks and incubated the DSP (demand-side platform) market. We asked him a few questions about automated media markets, especially how they've shaped the field for…
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AdMonsters' upcoming OPS TV event, July 11 in NYC, is not about the convergence of TV and digital video, but instead an examination of the growing overlap between the two channels. Signaling this increasinly convoluted relationship was Adap.tv's 2012 First Quarter State of the Online Video Industry Report, which found that…
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The shockwaves reverberated around the digital advertising industry fast and hard – included in Microsoft’s just-released Windows 8 upgrade is Internet Explorer 10, which not only features Do Not Track functionality but is also the first browser with “on” as the default setting.Oh yes, even Google agreed a few months…
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The funeral procession for mobile UDIDs trudges on, and you can imagine the mourners – mainly mobile ad tech specialists – limping after the casket, bawling their eyes out at the loss of the great consumer tracking tool. Or maybe not – numerous substitute solutions for mobile tracking have popped…
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