AdMonsters September 7, 2018 Tally Up This OMS Requirements Scorecard With Google’s Doubleclick Sales Manager (DSM) closing shop in 2019, many a publisher is scrambling to find and integrate a replacement order management system. The other week PGA Tour was kind enough to share a timeline for OMS migration,…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 9, 2018 Choose Wisely: Crucial Criteria for Selecting an Ad Quality Provider It's not your imagination—most malvertising attacks do happen over weekends. Bad actors hope to catch ops when its guard is down, so the gatekeepers must always be vigilant. A robust ad-quality solution is an essential…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 2, 2018 Skipping the SDK in Mobile In-App If you want to see veins pop in your mobile developer’s head, just tell him or her you’ve got five new SDKs to integrate stat. Many a programmatic mobile in-app deal has evaporated at the very mention of the dreaded…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 26, 2018 A Road Map For OMS Migrations We know some of you are still patting yourselves on the back for coming out the other end of the GDPR launch unscathed, but this is ad tech, folks—the next crisis is always coming sooner than you expect. The…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 19, 2018 Capturing That Elusive SMB Spend Facebook reels from another tornado of scandals, yet their advertising business is going gangbusters. Seems weird, right? Well, no—the Duopoly thrives on small and mid-size advertisers that can't find viable alternatives in digital media. But Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway sees an…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 12, 2018 Three Pillars of Ad Quality: Time for Compliance You can point to your specs, you can point to LEAN, but getting compliance from the buy side is still a challenge. So what should an overall framework for creative compliance look like? Brian LaRue explores the…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 5, 2018 Death of DoubleClick, Birth of a Monster? So Google is merging DoubleClick and AdExchange, creating Google Ad Manager (and creating an opportunity for loads of GAM jokes). Is this, Gavin Dunaway asks, a merger made in hell?? Here, he gives a shot at understanding Google's…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 28, 2018 I Went to Cannes Lions and All I Got Are These Hot Takes The ad industry is changing, and so is Cannes Lions. With header bidding altering the way agencies do business, branded content in high demand, and GDPR doing... whatever it's doing, publishers and…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 21, 2018 Three Pillars of Ad Quality: Beyond Redirects It's not your imagination—the redirect problem has been peaking in 2018. Publishers are turning to sandboxing as a fix. But sandboxing is only the beginning, considering redirects are just one of many ad quality concerns that need to…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 14, 2018 Let's Have Some Fun: Photos and Tweets From Ops 2018 Ops 2018 was a learning experience, and a deep one. But the cool thing about Ops is, we have fun with it. We pulled some of the best on-site photos and Tweets from June 4-5…
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