Professor Bob Pearson, former Chief Innovation Officer at W2O Group and current Senior Advisor, kicked off the Publisher Forum in Austin last week with a comprehensive keynote detailing the concepts of Storytizing—moving beyond campaigns to true cross-media engagement—and Audience Architecture—an advanced model for deriving insights from user bases. However, his…
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Wed., Nov. 28, 5:30—8:00 pm at Meredith's Offices 225 Liberty Street, 2nd Level Meredith Lobby, NYC Fourth quarter may be raging, but there’s still time to reflect on three major topics in digital advertising that defined 2018 for publishers and are likely to set the tone for 2019. Join your ad…
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Mobile consumers are hungry for relevant, nonintrusive moments on their devices. Knowing the right questions to ask your location-technology partner about their playbook is vital to ensuring you'll successfully reach them at the right place, right time -- with the right approach by tapping into customer behaviors and habits with…
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Worried that mobile traffic's rise will decrease desktop revenue? It just might, but there are definitely loads of opportunities -- like working with news aggregators and social networks -- to make up for the loss while meeting your audience on their mobile-first journey.
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Our new Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson dives into the "Principles for a Better Programmatic Marketplace," an open letter to the industry from six exchanges that seems to grant programmatic buyers all their transparency wishes—fee transparency, no hidden auction machinations, traffic filtered for IVT... We're surprised they didn't throw a…
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On a recent panel I moderated with some pretty impressive ad tech representation (if I do say so myself), my panelists were oddly uniform in arguing that programmatic guaranteed for digital video—especially served on connected TV or OTT—is the most exciting emerging transactional platform. Why? Because it's easy, I argue...…
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You know what unfortunately is already too easy? Delivering malware to publishers via the open programmatic marketplace. The latest high-profile case involves a fake company called "Amobi" (not to be confused with the legit Amobee) dropping malicious code through a wonky Claritin ad. As tempting as it is to roll…
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In its eye-opening new report on ad quality , Confiant finds that 1 out of every 200 ad impressions from the open exchanges is malvertising. If 1 trillion ads are being served through the open marketplace monthly, Confiant estimates that 5 billion are malicious. Make sure you have smelling salts…
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The widespread availability of location data has long been the central lure of the mobile advertising space, but to be successful in an increasingly competitive mobile space, advertisers and publishers need to be thinking beyond location to an array of data points, including uses, transactions, and patterns over time. Verve…
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Some seemingly grim news from Buzzfeed and Panoply threw a wet blanket on the excitement that's been building around the podcasting space. While there may be a content glut, the advertising is just starting to awaken its potential. Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway explores why podcast advertising—and the digital audio space…
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