I'm used to the eye rolls whenever I ask ad tech veterans their feelings on the potential of blockchain. I'll be the first to admit the term is sullied following an audacious hype cycle (even for ad tech!) and some scam-tastic initial coin offerings (ICOs). But the technology does seem…
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“The death of the cookie has been greatly exaggerated,” claimed Jason Bigler, Google Ad Manager Director of Product, near the beginning of the 2019 Ops event in New York. You could hear the sighs across the Metropolitan Pavilion, feel the collective shrug of acknowledgement pass through the gathered crowd. Yeah,…
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When Ops hit the Metropolitan Pavilion June 3-4 in NYC, attendees were treated to insights from 75+ digital media leaders, including experts in programmatic, OTT, OOH, data strategy, mobile, video, audio, AR/VR, blockchain, branded content, and more. Here's a recap of some of the major themes that emerged from those…
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In the next version of the Chrome browser, Google is set to release a native lazy loading feature for images and iframes, which will start on mobile and work its way on to the desktop. AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler, recently held a conference call with publishers to learn more about…
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Many a publisher has gotten lost in pondering the ramifications of Google Ad Manager's move to first-price auctions and introduction of a "unified auction."In gauging the effect of this enormous industry shift, we've got to start with what we know—namely, what is actually changing. Cafe Media's Paul Bannister decided a…
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The day before Ops 10 years ago, AdMonsters Founder, Bowen Dwelle, had an epiphany: Ops is Sexy. We had never discussed this kind of messaging before, says Rob Beeler, Chairman, AdMonsters. All I knew is that I was going to find myself in front of a few hundred people (Ops…
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While instinct might lead you to recruit people for ad ops who possess above average technical skills, most ad ops professionals—who have been in the game for a long time—will tell you that hiring for soft skills is equally, if not more important, than technical skill requirements. The right people…
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The air around digital media is thick with uncertainty. Many of us in the industry are waiting for one or two shoes to drop. But we shouldn’t be waiting—we should be coming together and engaging in discussion about what comes next. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to progress in digital media…
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“We all expected the time it took for full adoption of programmatic to be shorter. But why aren’t we there yet?” asks Megan Pagliuca, Chief Data Officer at Hearts & Science. Pagliuca, who’s been growing with the programmatic media buying business since its advent 10 years ago, found her calling…
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Bad ads are a pretty terrible thing for the entire ad ops ecosystem. By 2025 ad fraud—malvertising redirects and malicious IBV to name a few—will cost advertisers more than $50bn, accounting for 30% share of the overall digital market, so warned The World Federation of Advertisers back in 2016. But…
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