Somehow I, Sir Casper of the Pasty People, escaped the South Carolina sun with only the slightest of burns on my ears and neck (yes, my redneck is so bad that I have to hide it with a mullet).Of course, I did spend the majority of the 36th American edition…
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Match every impression with the channel likely to garner the most revenue – seems like the stuff of operational daydreams, but I’m not going to tell you to snap out of it. Such dynamic inventory allocation is real, oh-so-real, and it’s referred to as holistic yield management. I know that…
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Location, location, location is not just the mantra of real estate agents anymore. The ability to reach your audience where you want to reach them – and hopefully when they want to be reached – has long been a top perk for advertising on mobile. Of course, hyper-localized targeting sounds…
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My father keeps full a handy sack of thoughtful maxims, and my childhood was filled with repeated phrases like, “You’ve got to go along to get along,” and “Choose your battles.” One was ingrained into my psyche at a very early age, and I find it continually relevant in the…
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Recently the tech media was awash in panic over mobilegeddon – end times were nigh as Google was switching up its search algorithm to favor mobile-friendly responsive design sites. However, mobilegeddon has long meant something different to digital revenue specialists: publishers witnessing increasing amounts of mobile traffic with dwindling revenue…
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"Can't wait to see ads on my Apple Watch!" said no one ever. I'm sure that consumers are wondering what genius will be the first to spam them with belly fat ads on the Watch. When an ad network for the Watch was announced at CES in January, a million fanboys…
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Upfront season seems like it never ends. From late February to May, buzzed buyers are carted from garish affair to ostentatious event, plied at each with swag and booze (but of course!) while networks and broadcasters (and don’t forget web-based content providers) roll out celebrities and musical acts to ornament…
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At the beginning of 2015, 90% of U.S. households boasted three or more Internet-connected devices according to Ericsson, with an average of 5.2 devices per house. These are households we’re talking about, not specific people with their own devices. However, Cisco predicts that by 2017 the majority of U.S. individuals…
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The promise of private marketplaces is both alluring and straightforward. For brands, there’s the opportunity to reach engaged audiences of premium publishers with the efficiency of programmatic. For those premium publishers, there’s an opportunity to move inventory via programmatic, but at significantly higher CPMs than they can net in the…
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“There’s so much waste,” a publisher says with a sigh. We’re speaking about guaranteeing digital video against panel-based metrics, and one can’t help but shake their head at the amount publishers have to over-deliver to hit demographics. It’s tough to watch a grown ops professional bawl over their lost margins…
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