Updated Below. One of my first questions to AdMonsters Publisher Forum Keynote Mike Smith, General Manager of Core Audience and VP of Revenue Platforms and Digital , was, “What the hell is a supply-side trading desk?”He smiled wryly, probably because what sounds like the latest industry buzzword is a pretty apt…
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It doesn't take a savant to see that digital video advertising is hotter than an industrial forge. eMarketer estimated that digital video ad spend hit $6 billion in 2014, and spend for 2015 will run somewhere around $7.7 billion. And within that, programmatic video spend will hit $2.8 billion in…
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Access Intelligence Acquires AdMonsters, Expanding Its Conference Portfolio with Leading Ad Ops & Digital Technology BrandROCKVILLE, MD, March 9, 2015 -- Access Intelligence announced today the acquisition of AdMonsters, the fast-growing and preeminent conference and trade show company serving the online advertising operations, advertising technology and digital media markets. This…
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Workflow can be the bane of ops' existence. The order’s journey from sales to ops to inventory and other stops can be a perilous one full of treacherous platform crossings and other hazards – it can make Frodo Baggins’ excursion to Mount Doom look like a walk in the park.…
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The 2014 edition of the AdMonsters Salary Survey is here! The survey explores over 30 data points on ad operations roles within publishers, agencies, networks and solutions companies from over 320 respondents around the world, and provides data on salaries by position, seniority, geographic area, number of reports, as well…
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“There’s so much waste,” a publisher says with a sigh. We’re speaking about guaranteeing digital video against panel-based metrics, and one can’t help but shake their head at the amount publishers have to over-deliver to hit demographics. It’s tough to watch a grown ops professional bawl over their lost margins…
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“The good thing is that we are on a vendor stack,” commented Ricardo Collison, VP of Revenue Platforms for CBSi. “The bad thing is that we are on a vendor stack.”A digital totem pole built out of a mishmash of mismatched pieces, the revenue tech stack stands in the center…
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Join AdMonsters as we descend on the nation's capital. We're bringing our third AdMonsters Mashup to the Washington Post's offices in Downtown D.C. for an evening of publisher talk, networking and drinks.
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First-party data is oil of the digital media landscape. While all kinds of publishers can claim it, the refinement process, not the drilling, makes the big bucks. Fortunately, technology has improved publishers’ refining abilities, not just in driving revenue from first-party data through on-site advertising as well as selling data to…
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Greetings from the Lone Star State! AdMonsters' 34th Publisher Forum is officially under way in the Texas capital. If you couldn't make it down this time, don't fret. You can stay tuned right here for updates and content from the week. As for missing out on the barbecue, we'll try…
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