In the war of streaming video, the gap between winners and losers depends on how well a publisher delivers on SVOD's promise—a data-driven business in which content is more personalized and the ad targeting capabilities are better than digital, or even TV. Viewer behavior can tell you what people want…
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Early on in my tenure reporting on the digital advertising space, I was fascinated by the concept of audience futures—enabling publishers to guarantee sales of audience segments that could be transacted programmatically. This seemed to be an evolution of both digital direct guaranteed sales and TV-buying, but unfortunately the market hasn't…
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There was a lot of talk at the recent Cannes Lions Festival about addressable TV advertising. What will this mean for decision makers and those entrusted with operations on both the buy and sell side of the business? First: Digesting Alphabet Soup As traditional ad-supported linear television morphs into a…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 2, 2019 Data Is Biggest Star at Hulu NewFront As industry players are pondering the usefulness of the upfront in the digital age and digital publishers are bowing out of the NewFronts, Hulu pretty much gave a master class in how to do it right. The presentation…
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CDP might sound like another martech or adtech acronym that will make its way into obscurity, but in a post-GDPR world where first-party relationships will be vital to survival, the Consumer Data Platform (CDP) is the ultimate tool for true consumer identity resolution. During his presentation, “All You Need Is…
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The explosion in the blockchain-based marketing landscape over the past 18 months has brought an interesting dynamic to the already complex world of digital advertising. There has been a lot of hype, a lot of hot air, a lot of learning, and a few solutions showing early promise around this…
Read MoreAdMonsters January 3, 2019 AdMonsters Playbook: Aligning Regulatory Compliance & User Experience If digital media monetization was as easy as hooking up a slew of page placements to programmatic demand sources and just watching the revenue roll in, all of our lives would be far less stressful. We also…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 20, 2018 84% of Ad Ops Employees Would Leave Their Jobs for More Money The 2018 edition of the AdMonsters North American Publisher Salary Survey is coming soon! We surveyed over 400 respondents from across the US working in ad operations in broadcast, digital, print, mobile, social…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 14, 2018 5 Ways Vast 4.1 Is Way Better Than Every Other Version of VAST It’s been a slow process getting the video ad industry to update from VAST 2.0 to VAST 4.0. But now that the IAB has introduced VAST 4.1, which includes major improvements over…
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In the ad ops industry (aka “online ad operations," “online advertising operations," “ad operations,” “online ad ops," and “ops” in the trade)—things keep changing all the time. There’s a new regulation here, some new tech to learn about there and then a bunch of rejiggering the pipes to keep apace.…
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