Together at long last – after receiving the OK from the Justice Department in late February, former rivals Donovan Data Systems and MediaBank officially joined forces on March 1 to become Mediaocean. At OPS Markets on April 18 in NYC – and in one of their first public speaking engagements…
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There are two ways to store the user ID on the mobile device. The first is through using the impression cookie – we go into more detail in StrikeAd's full whitepaper that this article is excerpted from (PDF). On iOS, i.e. iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch, however, it is not possible…
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With OPS Mobile London conference approaching (May 16th), AdMonsters jumped on the chance to interview Russell Buckely, CMO of Eagle Eye Solutions and one of our Keynote Speakers. We sat down with Russell to discuss his thoughts and predictions about the future of mobile advertising and mobile commerce, focusing on…
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With an increasingly fragmented media landscape (both digital and non-), partnering media-mix modeling and attribution would seem quite advantageous for marketers – hence why it's at the center of version 2.0 of Visual IQ's TrueAttribution technology, which powers the IQ Envoy product suite. Visual IQ Cofounder and CEO Manu Mathew took…
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Device identification. You’ve read about it, heard about it or thought about trying it, but maybe you’re still not quite sure of what the benefits are or why you’d consider an alternative to cookies in your online advertising strategy. Cookies, of course, have been the cornerstone of online measurement and…
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Digital advertising pros who are also Spaghetti Western fans thoroughly enjoyed Grapeshot Chief Executive John Snyder's wonderfully titled OPS Markets session on Thursday, Feb. 9: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Digital Advertising." While we're still trying to talk Snyder into wearing a poncho and chewing a cigarillo during…
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with Richard Wheaton, UK Managing Director of Ogilvy’s digital arm Neo, to discuss the digital landscape as it lies currently and also get his take on what to look out for in 2012. Richard is a stalwart of the industry –…
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When considering which data to buy and layer onto campaigns, marketers are becoming lost in a sea of segments. Several data buyers have told me they have access to 50,000 segments. That’s 50 with 3 zeroes. Which cookies should you buy? How can you differentiate one company’s 500 segments from…
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Offering further proof of how much online display technology is inspired by the financial industry, Legolas Media announced numerous agency partners, including Horizon Media, on board with its audience futures marketplace. Employing a complex algorithm that incorporates 10,000 data points regarding audience targeting, Legolas enables publishers to sell guaranteed inventory…
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In this performance-driven medium, the push to increase performance is never-ending. I’ve seen many publishers invest deeply in people, process and technology to increase the revenue a page can yield, independent of the number of times it has been viewed. Today, it’s fairly common to have an internal discipline around…
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