For the first 14 years of my career, my idea of a large company was 200, perhaps 300 people. My personal sense of scale took a whipping when I decided to go to work at the consumer division of Thomson Reuters, a company that employs 60,000 souls.I walked in with…
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Together at long last – after receiving the OK from the Justice Department in late February, former rivals Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank officially joined forces on March 1 to become Mediaocean. At OPS Markets on April 18 in NYC – and in one of their first public speaking engagements…
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Latin America, open your arms wide because Google is about to stuff them with a big present. At AdMonsters Brasil on April 24 in São Paulo, Google will announce the Latin American launch of the DoubleClick Ad Exchange (AdX), the real-time, impression-by-impression auction platform that assists ad networks, agencies and…
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OMG – Have you been MRAIDed? Sound scary? It’s not. MRAID represents a new frontier for in-app mobile advertising, especially in-app video ads. Just want I need: another freakin’ acronym. Yeah, we’re all pretty much acroynm’ed out, but this is less about the acronym and more about what it does for us. MRAID…
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Thanks to an annual growth rate of 3.7%, Brazil’s GDP was $2.52 trillion in 2011, surpassing the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth-largest economy. Of interest to those of us in the online advertising business, ZenithOptimedia reported Brazil had already become the sixth-largest global ad market in 2010, and according…
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So far in Ad Ops Insider's conversations with leaders in the mobile ad ops space, we've discussed developing holistic mobile strategies with Bryan Moffett, VP of Digital Strategy and Ad Operations for National Public Media and difficulties with in-app rich media intergrations with Brian Hoskins, Senior Manager of Ad Services for Disney Technology…
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Believe it or not, folks, 2012 a big election year hear in the U.S. – maybe you've heard something about it on the TV news channels or in the papers? It's widely speculated that targeted digital advertising will play a large role in this year's presidential and congressional elections (as…
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European Editor Gautam Srivastava had the pleasure of sitting down with QUISMA MD, Ellie Edwards to discuss their shift from Search to Display and what their plans are for the UK and European market.Search, Dynamic Creative , RTB, Technologies and so much more - check out Gautam’s fascinating interview below. Ellie…
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The first advertising standards, guidelines and best practices for digital video emerged four years ago, which seems like a short time in the grand scheme of history. But technology moves at an accelerated pace, and four years is enough to make anything outdated in the ad technology space. In fact,…
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There are two ways to store the user ID on the mobile device. The first is through using the impression cookie – we go into more detail in StrikeAd's full whitepaper that this article is excerpted from (PDF). On iOS, i.e. iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch, however, it is not possible…
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