This Meetup brings together several premium publishers to explain how creative-facing initiatives sync into typical operations workflow and delve into the tools and processes required. Are there standards that can be applied across screens and platforms? How does operations handle scaling and the integration of viewability metrics and technollogy? Can…
Read MoreAdMonsters Meetup at the Weather Channel: Join us after the AdMonsters Tech Forum at the Weather Channel for drinks and ad ops talk. Stay tuned for details about the event.Creative In FluxIt’s been years since Steve Jobs seemingly signed the death warrant for Flash, yet the technology is still feels omnipresent in digital…
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Today marks the hottest day of the year here outside of Portland at the Columbia Gorge. Today also marks our first day of sessions at Publisher Forum. Coincidence? Maybe. But, we like to think the blazing ad ops leaders in the house had something to do with the record heat.…
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Fifty percent of pixels in view on the in-focus browser tab for two continous seconds. It doesn’t seem like a giant barrier to cross for a video ad to be considered in-view – and that was the point.Following the June 30 lifting of the Media Rating Council’s advisory against transacting…
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I have just emerged from my sensory deprivation chamber following AdMonsters’ June 10 OPS conference – the stimulation of more than 500 industry players roaming four floors devoted to native advertising, multiscreen and technology was too much to digest. Just before I went into shock, Content Czar Rob Beeler guided…
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Join us for cocktails and ad operations talk at Microsoft.
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It’s hard enough overseeing the ad operations tech stack and processes of one publisher; imagine juggling multiple publishers. But that’s exactly the mission companies like Outsourced Ad Ops (OAO) have taken on – and they have to do it well enough to be profitable and grow as a company. While…
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“We think standards should be dead; standards have held back the industry for years,” says ReactX CEO Chip Meyers. “Thank goodness the leaderboard and skyscraper are finally going to the grave – there’s no money in them; the brands don’t want to use them; and publishers are getting rid of…
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Like a leaky faucet drip-drip-dripping into a steel sink, mobile has long been that nagging concern keeping publishers up at night. The amount of inventory seems to multiply daily with little demand from buyers (especially when it comes buying guaranteed), so publishers are forced to turn to ad networks and…
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Maybe it’s because I’ve been watching too much “Downton Abbey,” but I can’t shake the idea that if programmatic direct was a debutante, 2013 was the year it came out.While the concept had been around for a while and people had long whispered about its prospects, last year was when…
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