Aw damn – even AdMonsters is embracing the listicle. But we've got a good excuse: Advertising Week celebrates its 10th anniversary of unleashing the marketing hordes on the Big Apple. The official guide to Ad Week is 263 pages long (warning: it's full of ads) and the mobile app is…
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This interview was republished, courtesy of Xcede.Peter Yardley-Jones is the current Head of Advertising Operations for zeebox in the United Kingdom. Here's what he had to say on the future of second-screen, market changes, and just what it means to jump into a career in ad-ops. From your professional opinion as…
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Digital Media Leadership Award honorees Bill Murray, The Weather Company, and Ali Mirian, Chiefgood, are flanked by AdMonsters Founder and CEO Bowen Dwelle (left) and VP, Content and Media Rob Beeler at Publisher Forum XXX in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo: Donna Alberico) Honoring Digital Media Leadership Award Winners in Boulder, ColoradoAdMonsters announced two…
Read MoreRead descriptions of sponsor breakouts below. Register for your two preferred sponsor breakouts here. AdColony – Fish Need Water, Birds Need Air & Great Ads Need Great Content11:10-11:50 a.m., 12:00-12:40 p.m.Close the spreadsheets, log out of the dashboard and come experience the power of brand storytelling. Today AdColony is showing you the…
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“We spend most of our time telling privacy advocates and even our clients what we don’t collect," comments James Lamberti, Vice President and General Manager of AdTruth. “If you read our contract, there’s a list of 20 things we don’t collect: IFA, cookies, UDID, MAC address, etc. We purposefully stay…
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UDID was a problem. First off, the 40-digit alphanumeric codes giving unique identifiers to Apple mobile devices based on hardware details had no consumer opt-out functionality – no blocking, removing, what have you. Second, the read-only identifier was static – even if a phone exchanged owners, the UDID was imprinted…
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Did you miss Monday's webcast? Not to worry, you can watch a recording of the webinar online right now. Traffic spikes. Mobile impressions. New revenue streams. Tech complexity. Amidst a sea of constantly fluctuating and evolving factors, scale is always on the minds of Ad Operations leaders, yet the path…
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“TV is an immovable object, mobile is an unstoppable force,” suggested Rob Beeler, Content Czar.A strong opening is essential to a great event, and the content team was having trouble wrapping the myriad topics within the OPS TV/OPS Mobile agenda (Thursday, July 18 at Chelsea Piers in NYC) into a…
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“No transparency!” must be the most common complaint around the RTB space. Buyers feel short-shifted in terms their ability to get insight into the inventory they’re purchasing while publishers are concerned with the advertisers grabbing their stock for cheap and the quality of the creative coming through the pipes. Oh,…
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To my knowledge no one goes into ad operations to practice law. It was certainly the last thing on my mind when I started back in 1999, but I quickly found myself having to navigate T&Cs, IOs and the occasional client-signed PowerPoint slide printout. As if that wasn’t tough enough,…
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