“There were too many advantages to ignore,” comments Aaron Jones, CTO of IDG Consumer and SMB, when explaining why the company embraced responsive design in rebranding and rebuilding two of the company’s most popular sites – PCWorld and Macworld. For one thing, unifying the back-end of those two sites –…
Read MoreThis week, we caught up with Erich Wasserman, who co-founded MediaMath and led its sales and account teams as they built the first agency trading desks and incubated the DSP (demand-side platform) market. We asked him a few questions about automated media markets, especially how they've shaped the field for…
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As part of The Guardian's Digital First strategy, the esteemed news outlet implemented and migrated to a booking system that encompass all of its products: print, desktop, mobile, app, you name it. During Publisher Forum Vienna next week, Danny Doyle, Commercial Ad Operations Team Leader, and colleague Rezaul Haque, Applications…
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'Data' has become a huge talking point in display advertising in the UK and Europe. Weborama's move to acquire Datvantage speaks to the growing importance of data in an increasingly automated world. AdMonsters caught up with Alain Levy, CEO of Weborama, and Mathieu Roche, MD of Weborama UK, to discuss…
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Above is a clip from the OPS Markets NY keynote of JT Batson of Mediaocean remarking on the fluidity of TV buying and selling systems. Batson learned a great deal about these at Donovan Data Systems before that company merged with MediaBank to form Mediaocean in April. The fluidity of…
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The funeral procession for mobile UDIDs trudges on, and you can imagine the mourners – mainly mobile ad tech specialists – limping after the casket, bawling their eyes out at the loss of the great consumer tracking tool. Or maybe not – numerous substitute solutions for mobile tracking have popped…
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Videoplaza has seen the future of online video, and it looks pretty fragmented. Hence why in March the company Introduced its device-aware ad platform Karbon, which enables publishers to monetise video content anywhere it is viewed – desktop, smartphone, tablet as well as up-and-coming toys joining the assortment of Internet-connected devices.As a…
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Yesterday 24/7 Media (rebranded from 24/7 Real Media last month) announced an extensive partnership with Microsoft Advertising, including naming the Microsoft Advertising Exchange the exclusive third-party ad exchange offered to users of 24/7 Open AdStream; annointing the Microsoft Media Network as the only non-WPP demand source with programmatic access to…
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It may be pouring outside in London, but it's pretty cozy at the Royal College of Surgeons, where AdMonsters is holding its 2012 OPS London event today, May 15. The main hall is full, where Jonny Shaw, previously a speaker at our OPS Mobile conference in New York, is elaborating…
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It feels as if data management platforms have crossed threshold from "handy tool, nice if you can afford it" to "must-have-now" for both media sellers and buyers. The platforms were quite the talk of OPS Markets in NYC last month, where questions about what to do with the data pileup were debated…
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