Publishers are under constant pressure, not only to maintain revenue but also to increase it. Many sites still rely heavily on programmatic advertising revenue for the lion's share of their income. So what should publishers do? Andy Evans, former CMO of Sovrn found answers to that question when he attended…
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Publisher Forum Austin was about "Defining the Future of Digital Media" in Austin. Monday's keynote from Bob Pearson, senior advisor, W2O group taught us that the future of advertising might rest on taking earned and shared media into true consideration to better understand how audiences work and how we should…
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You better believe I was bummed by the Digiday article suggesting that the time-based guarantee movement has stalled out. Those who regularly read my opuses know I’ve long been a huge advocate for this style of transaction because time (and really engaged time, which can be used as a proxy…
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Let’s admit that the majority of headaches when it comes to viewability revolve around the fact that in campaigns it’s measured ex post facto. The ad is served and then the viewability pixels start counting—but the buy and sell side pixels load at different times, causing discrepancies aplenty. Doesn’t that…
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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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With a brutal heat wave hitting the East Coast over the last few weeks, the best activity has seemed to be cranking the air conditioning and curling up in front of the TV (as long as your power is still on). Or maybe it was watching a couple of flicks…
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Just Two Weeks To Go! Join us on Wednesday 25th April for ABC's Interaction 2012, 'The Power of Trust.' Hear how trusted partnerships are being used across the industry to build successful media brands. Our theme this year will build on the debate around privacy and online brand safety, with speakers representing…
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When the EU Privacy Directive on cookies came into effect in May of this year – the first time the legislation had been updated since 1995 – it left a lot of people in the industry scratching their heads as to what it meant and for whom. As with any…
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Focus and Clarity Employees perform better with focus. Mixing different job descriptions that might sound like they can co-exist, such as a web producer and a traffic manager in the same role, can create tremendous difficulties that will inevitably result in employee retention challenges and failing campaigns. I call this…
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The following is a continuation of a post written by Hugh Evans recapping a presentation at Publisher Forum EU 12 in June. The real nuts and bolts of what we wanted to cover in our presentation was still to come – the operational challenges that inevitably come along with a…
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