After 24 years at Publicis, with the most recent role being CEO at the VivaKi Nerve Center, Curt Hecht made the leap across the aisle to joining his old VivaKi boss David Kenny at The Weather Channel. But making his move to the role of Global Chief Revenue Officer wasn't just…
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Making Big Money in Mobile With nearly 110 million mobile smartphone subscribers and 30 million tablet users in the US, consumers are accessing content anytime, anywhere. As this trend continues, every publisher invested in mobile needs a monetization strategy for their mobile initiatives. Learn how you can convert your mobile…
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In Madrona's last post at AdMonsters, we highlighted how you can set up Salesforce to forecast media sales. This article builds on that approach and adds a technique to blend data from the ad server to get a true all-up revenue forecast.Revenue Forecasting Is More Than Just Tracking SalesRevenue forecasting…
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To energize the crowd at Adap.tv's inaugural Adapt Conference, CEO, cofounder and emcee Amir Ashkenazi asked all buy side representatives – be they agency, DSP or brand people – to stand up. After that group rose, he beckoned all supply siders in the room to get on their feet. With…
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So I see you over at your big ol' holding company office on Madison Ave. thinking to yourself, "Why should I, important agency person, haul my ass to 82 Mercer on Oct. 4 for OPS? What's in it for me?"Really, the question you should be asking is, "What's not in…
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Leave it to Google to blur the lines between direct and indirect sales. In June, DoubleClick launched Preferred Deals in beta, allowing publishers to offer chosen buyers a sneak peek at certain inventory before it hit the wider exchange. However, the inventory is fixed-price – fixed price and non-guaranteed? Madness!…
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Making the dive into programmatic buying can be daunting, but a lot less so when fortified policies are in place. Below is an amalgam of how aggressive Media Trust clients in particular address ad quality and data leakage issues, split into four quality segments. Ad Security Data Security Ad Quality…
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Jeffrey Seah from Starcom MediaVest talks RTB, Vivaki's vision and more. Get the lowdown from AdMonsters SE Asia's afternoon keynote in this enlightening Q&A below.Do the senior advertisers and marketers actually care if media is ‘addressable’ and ‘automated’?It has been positioned as the new holy grail of marketing. And it…
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Chris Levings, Operations Director for Adconion Direct, can see the future – or at least the future of ad networks. Before his presentation at AdMonsters SE Asia, we questioned him on what value networks add.Define an ad network that adds ‘value’?An ad network that adds value brings something unique 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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