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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The online advertising industry, which subsidizes the commercial Internet consumers love today, is rightfully concerned about the recent announcement about Microsoft Internet Explorer 10’s default settings.“Do Not Track” (DNT) would remain the default setting in IE10, with consumers able to disable it only through a “custom” setting.Make no mistake: Microsoft’s…
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Let's face it – it isn't easy to adapt to every change in our rapidly evolving market – even for the best of companies. Seemingly every day we learn about new platforms, new devices, new consumer behaviors and expectations, new forms of monetization, etc. And with startups continuously being launched…
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We often group advertisers into two buckets: the creative and the practical. But is one group really an extension of the other?Consider this analogy: if you went to the beach this summer, you probably spotted seashells and thought that the pattern on each shell was beautiful and unique – that…
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The frustrations of the world of digital media operations are many, though assumptions about its preeminent position for highly qualitative and accountable messaging are rarely questioned. Yet if the digital world is so great with respect to accountable and qualitative measurement, why do we have so many issues compared to…
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Easel TV specialises in building apps for connected TVs, with clients including broadcasters, pay-TV operators, content producers and major consumer brands. I spoke to AdMonsters Screens speaker Bill Scott, COO of Easel, and asked him to explain the company’s proposition.BS: Our differentiator is that our apps feel much more like…
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The latest TubeMogul report on video RTB in the UK found that inventory available for RTB grew at a fleet 13.8% rate per month during the second quarter of 2012, maxing out at 29.9 million streams per day in July. However, average CPM took a nose dive, from £6.47 in…
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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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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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Programmatic buying is proven to provide a lift in CPMs. The overall benefit of programmatic buying far outweighs the energy and expense required to manage ad quality and data leakage. When diving in, it is important to remind yourself that programmatic buying requirements are no different than the fundamental operational…
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