The RTB marketplace is not yet operating as a truly efficient market with equal benefit to both sides. This is due to basic economics: Supply exceeds demand, and auction-based pricing combined with low bid density results in a market rife with arbitrage.Buyers are accustomed to drawing from a large commoditized…
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The latest TubeMogul report on video RTB in the UK found that inventory available for RTB grew at a fleet 13.8% rate per month during the second quarter of 2012, maxing out at 29.9 million streams per day in July. However, average CPM took a nose dive, from £6.47 in…
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Location has been the talk of the mobile town lately, and we caught up with Kathy Leake, President of LocalResponse and one of the most powerful women in mobile advertising, according to Business Insider, to get her take on the strides the company has been taking and on the direction of…
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The past two weeks’ Olympic triumphs and tragedies have driven home to me the importance of publishers’ need to use technology to monetize dramatic spikes in traffic. Ok, you wonder how I can make the leap from sports spectaculars to advertising inventory monetization.London 2012 is an amazing – actually a…
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When I first heard about second screen companion app Squawka I could barely contain my excitement. As a football (ahem soccer) enthusiast I've always been keen on the stat side of the game and Squawka looks set to be a stat monkey's dream. I sat down with the CEO & co-founder to…
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Before he speaks on diversifying media mix to boost video revenue at AdMonsters SE Asia on Aug. 2, we caught up with Steven Jones, Chief Strategy and Operations Officer for AdoTube, to get his thoughts on the biggest digital video challenges in Southeast Asia.What is the one thing you think…
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There's been a lot of talk recently about Facebook's warm hug with a few select Demand Side Platforms. This is not a surprise move by Facebook and neither are the restrictions they are placing on buyers. For example, only allowing buyers to bring their own data. Targeting data from Facebook…
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Ernesto Schmitt is co-founder and CEO of social TV app company Zeebox. It launched in October last year and in January reported it had 250,000 users. In the same month it sold a 10% stake to BSkyB.The first thing I asked Schmitt was what he thinks are the key opportunities…
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The question of viable, sustainable and tangible metrics in digital marketing isn't one that is going away any time soon. More and more agencies are demanding better metrics from us and publishers too see the benefit in 'premium inventory'. We've been fully across the 'Viewable Impressions' metric that gained popularity last…
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As AdMonsters prepare for our first ever Mobile Publisher Forum (Nov 11-14, San Antonio), we've decided to amp up the amount of mobile content delivered on our site. To kick this off, we were able to wrangle an interview with Elena Perez of Medialets to discuss their recent Mobile Rich…
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