How many of you know that Morgan Stanley’s advisory services division drives more than 15 percent of that firm’s annual revenue? That should come as no surprise, although it’s still shocking that so few of us use financial advisors. Financial planning is a complex undertaking with trained professionals who do…
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Robert Haskitt is the CMO at Extreme Reach and is responsible for the company's global marketing strategy and functions including brand, audience, business-to-business and regional marketing, as well as insights, global communications, policy and related teams.We asked him a few questions about digital video advertising best practices, video ad spend…
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Global warming is not the only thing raising the temperatures on Madison Avenue lately. Video advertising is hot and marketers can not get enough of it. Expected to grow 40 percent in each of the next two years, it’s one of the best tools for online marketers looking to reach…
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GhostWriter lets you prioritize when and how you load third-party content, like ads. Your users see what they’re looking for sooner which increases engagement and improves your search engine rankings.One of the ways it does this is by introducing a smarter replacement for the standard document.write method. Couple this intelligent…
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We saw that Google Analytics now supported Page Load Time metrics out-of-the-box and started thinking about how we might be able to use GhostWriter’s insights into third-party content (read: ads) performance to give users of both GhostWriter and Google Analytics highly granular performance measurements. GhostWriter’s hooks allow you to execute…
Read MoreProximic recently named Rodney Mayers as their Senior Vice President, Business Development. Previously Mayers was the COO of Adify. In the press release Mayers said, "Proximic has developed some of the most compelling technology I have seen in the online advertising space in a very long time." We asked Mayers…
Read MoreVideo syndication is a hot topic in the world of online media. While the general idea is well enough understood—it’s a way for content owners to make more money in more places—there is still plenty of confusion about what video syndication actually is, how it works, and what publishers need…
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Last year when I first joined AdMonsters I wrote an article about the Video Ad Serving Template, commonly know as the VAST which is a XML standard proposed and maintained by the IAB. So what has become of VAST in the 12 months since? Has the industry embraced the VAST…
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Recently there was an announcement introducing OpenRTB, which is a consortium made up of both demand and supply side providers. The goal of the consortium is to create less friction in an marketplace that is only becoming more and more complex. Part of that initiative includes proposing a set of…
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As much of the industry knows by now, we were honored to announce our participation in the newly formed OpenRTB Consortium earlier this month. With more and more publishers looking to real-time bidding (RTB) as a key source of demand for their inventory, it’s critical to have the right standards…
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