Yesterday I attended the IAB Marketplace: Digital Video conference. Digital Video has so much exciting potential for the industry and seems to be getting bigger. Brian Shin of Visibile Measures said video is growing faster than anyone could have imagined and Cisco estimates that in 2013, 90 percent of Internet…
Read MoreDear AdMonsters, Let me start by saying that I am doing a session on this topic in Memphis next week. If you are going and will be joining the session, please send feedback before Monday and I can incorporated it into the presentation. Since Google announced that page load time…
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Today OpenX announced the release of a new platform, OpenX Enterprise, which is a Software as a Service hosted ad management solution with new capabilities for managing different channels of inventory and product in one tool. Read the release. According to OpenX, this is a departure for the company and…
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Last year when I first joined AdMonsters I wrote an article about the Video Ad Serving Template, commonly know as the VAST which is a XML standard proposed and maintained by the IAB. So what has become of VAST in the 12 months since? Has the industry embraced the VAST…
Read MoreThe type of ad delivery a site uses can have far reaching impacts. Everyone's had a conversation with the Content or IT team that started "Your ads are making the site ...!" This is usually followed by any one of a number of complaints: slow; install malware; totally unusable; leak…
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I know! Not all beacons/pixels/cookies (oh my!) are used to bilk dollars from Premium Publishers via an audience driven model. There are analytics tools that can help provide insight into traffic patterns, measurement of user frequency and in the end make a greater and more enjoyable user experience for the…
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Editor's note: This is part one of a two part post.The expanding online advertising market presents publishers with substantial opportunities for dramatic revenue growth. It also presents significant challenges that will require publishers to transform their advertising operations in order to capture the full revenue potential. With the right strategy,…
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What is the IES? It seems to continue to make more regular appearances at the industry's events, but few people seem to fully understand what it is, and how it will impact their operations. The IES stands for "Impression Exchange Solution" (or sometimes "Standard"), though I would argue as a…
Read MoreThe Metropolitan PavilionBreaking News & UpdatesOPS: Markets was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who attended and our sponsors for supporting AdMonsters.Speaker and Session Lineup - Take a look to remind yourself.A unique, one-day conference for digital advertising leaders focused on operational excellence in an audience driven marketplace.About OPS:…
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Yesterday I attended the IAB Ad Operations Summit. It was a packed house which I believe demonstrates how Ad Ops is at the forefront of revenue and top of mind for digital media companies.Here are some of my key observations and takeaways from the day:Breaking down offline vs onlineToday we…
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