I was in London last week for OPS London and to prepare for our Vienna Publisher Forum June 17-20th. Fortunately my visit allowed me to mingle with some elite digital minds at a SpotXchange dinner and a packed IAB Mobile Engage event. While the focus of the dinner and the…
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OPS is the Future of AdvertisingAccelerate growth and profitability through operations & technology OPS is all about premium advertising. DSPs, SSPs, and other ‘remnant’ solutions are getting all the press these days. However, premium advertising still drives about 80% of all online ad revenue. We’ll be looking at how agencies…
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It may be pouring outside in London, but it's pretty cozy at the Royal College of Surgeons, where AdMonsters is holding its 2012 OPS London event today, May 15. The main hall is full, where Jonny Shaw, previously a speaker at our OPS Mobile conference in New York, is elaborating…
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I don't want to make anyone faint from shock, but did you know this European Union thing is actually made up of a whole bunch of different countries, most with different langauges? You've got some pretty divergent markets, and this fragmentation makes online video advertising painful for publishers stretched across the…
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As its most basic state, pluralism is the state of being plural – it typically represents a diversity of views and/or methods to achieving a goal. Nowhere would that seem to fit better than the digital advertising space, and the title of digital pluralist also seems fitting for Andrew Walmsley, who…
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“Originally there were five different versions of the definition of ‘Do Not Track,” commented Aleecia McDonald, Cochair of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Tracking Protection Working Group (as well as a representative of Mozilla and a member and a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society) at…
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Do you hear that sound? If you listen closely, you can hear dry erasers swiping whiteboards in conference rooms all over the globe. In each one, a digital tech company’s CEO and CMO are trying to push their ‘unique’ proposition to the advertising landscape by condensing its title into a…
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In light of the big “day of action” by Occupy Wall Street last Tuesday, I thought it was an appropriate time to talk about a common theme of the protests: jobs. Over and over again we hear the chants of “jobs for the 99%.”However, the positions of the protesters stand…
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The online advertising industry continues to experience significant changes as we see businesses trying to take advantage of the opportunities offered by a market now worth more than £1 billion in online display alone. One emerging trend seems to be the willingness of companies to collaborate in an attempt to…
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How does your group respond when a fastball project/request comes in and needs to be dealt with immediately? Do you take the kiddie soccer approach of everyone swarming the ball, or do you have someone on point whose role is to grab the ball (project), move it forward and get…
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