If you think standardizing and centralizing sales workflow across a few properties is Sisyphean effort, spend some time in Gannett’s shoes. The national and regional media powerhouse is in the middle of a massive sales workflow centralization project and has already integrated a single-entry order system for digital products across…
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Have you heard of header tags? Of course, you have – even ops people living under rocks have been inundated with tales of header tags, and it’s quickly become the new norm for programmatic-focused publishers. However, the tech is not without its controversies: while proponents claim header tags establish fairer…
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If you want to hear about real-life examples of how a historic, trusted but largely regional publication can adapt to and thrive in digital, Ray Faust is one of those people you’d want to talk to. The VP, National and Emerging Sales at the Star Tribune Media Company helped lead…
Read MoreWe’re two months past Sept. 1, the date when Google Chrome started detecting and pausing any Flash content it deemed “unimportant” to a page’s main content — in other words, Flash ads. Mozilla’s own Flash-blocking practices preceded Chrome’s, in practice. And yet, not only has the internet not broken itself,…
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AdMonsters Meetup and Awards CeremonyDecember 2, 2015, 5:00 to 8:00 pm, The Weather Company5:30 to 6:15 pm Panel: Operation First-Party DataAs we’ve written before on AdMonsters, publisher first-party data is the oil of the digital advertising industry. However, just like with the oil industry, the money is not in drilling…
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Somehow I, Sir Casper of the Pasty People, escaped the South Carolina sun with only the slightest of burns on my ears and neck (yes, my redneck is so bad that I have to hide it with a mullet).Of course, I did spend the majority of the 36th American edition…
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Match every impression with the channel likely to garner the most revenue – seems like the stuff of operational daydreams, but I’m not going to tell you to snap out of it. Such dynamic inventory allocation is real, oh-so-real, and it’s referred to as holistic yield management. I know that…
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I feel like I've been eating, breathing and sleeping programmatic video over the past year. But have no complaints as this has to be one of the most exciting areas in advertising technology. Oh, you think I'm joking? Why don't you download our new playbook on private marketplaces and advanced…
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Sept. 29 at Mansueto Venture's Headquarters – 7 World Trade Center, NYC. Tagless technology has taken the industry by storm, offering publishers impressive bumps in revenue. But there's still a great deal of mystery around it: how does it work, how do I integrate the tech, and why is it…
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Earlier this year, Will Spann was volunteered as a speaker on a panel I was leading about HTML5 creative and responsive site issues. We had chatted before, but as we prepped for the discussion and he described the Creative Lab at The Weather Company, I was blown away. Publisher creative offerings…
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