Startup analyst and former Cheezburger CRO Todd Sawicki will discuss the future of advertising beyond display during his keynote "Revenue Without an Ad Server" at this year's Publisher Forum in Sonoma, Calif. We recently talked to Sawicki about native advertising, the next big digital ad trends, and how he makes…
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“It’s verification all over again!” I smirked on overhearing this statement following an intense discussion on viewability at the Digital Brand Forum in New York City recently. For an ad tech reporter, the verification battles were boon times – there were plenty of digital inches available to sop up the endless…
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“We routinely sell out our site inventory,” a senior ad ops professional tells us. “Our value proposition is our audience, which our advertisers can still reach – just on different properties across the Internet.”Hence why her site launched a new audience extension program right before summer 2012. But this wasn’t…
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It’s a common adage in retail (brick and mortar as well as digital) that the customer doesn’t cease to exist once he/she leaves the store. The same logic applies to digital publishing: when someone exits a media company’s digital property, that user doesn’t vanish into thin air, and neither does…
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A number of partners I’ve been working with have mentioned casually that they are experimenting with creating a marketplace in their adserver by collapsing the prioritization settings. For a lot of publishers, this is the latest version of the struggle with sales channel conflict that they have been wrestling with…
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Many leading digital publishers are meeting the challenge of growing revenues with varying degrees of success. However, one challenge that remains a constant is the ability to grow profitability at the same rate or faster than revenue.The predominant focus of many leading organizations remains yield (or eCPM). Adroit sales and…
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Mobile’s potential beckons like a field of dreams but whether it becomes a reality depends on the ability to build consumer trust for your platform or business. Mobile usage is surging. Gartner Group forecasts mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web access device worldwide within the next…
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You have to hand it to print magazine publishers — they are naturals when it comes to clever integrated advertising campaigns that engage readers. I remember flipping through a print magazine by Condé Nast when a series of interviews with bar owners in New York talking about their favorite vodka…
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Some “facts” you might not know about me, particularly if you’re going by the picture on the upper right hand side of this page.I’m a married male head of household who speaks Spanish. I have two teenage children and a high school diploma. I’m retired. My income is below $50,000.…
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A few weeks ago, we posted a poll asking ad ops professionals to tell us how they were handling the Q4 traffic deluge. Our poll asked ten questions and went into the nitty gritty of how ad operations teams deal with high volume seasons. We are posting the full results…
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