Maybe it's early on to be calling it "The Year of..." anything, but all signs are telling us that 2012 is truly going to be the year of Big Data. However, we're not talking about realization of the phenomenon – as DataXu Mobile General Manager Lara Mehanna said last week…
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There was a fair deal of relief spread around following the announcement of Facebook's IPO yesterday. First off, investors who had been dying to get their hands on a piece of the social network's business knew their time haunting the secondary markets was almost over. But even bigger, so much…
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We sat down with OPS Markets' Keynote Speaker Martin Kelly from Infectious Media and quizzed him on the RTB market place, the digital ad landscape in 2012 and got his predictions for our industry in 2012. RTB really took off in 2011, what do you see happening in a more mature…
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Device recognition specialist (no cookies required) AdTruth, a division of 41st Parameter, has further upped its pro-privacy ante by joining the World Wide Web Consortium (commonly known as W3C) – specifically the Tracking Protection Working Group, which is developing guidance for implementing and adhering to Do Not Track (DNT) functionalities…
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Martin van der Meij will be leading his session Taking the Secondary Channel to New Levels at OPS Markets in London on February 9. SIgn up today and stay ahead of the digital advertising curve. Get more information at the bottom of this page. How has De Telegraaf approached RTB and what…
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We’ve talked about the Three Pillars of Success (People, Process and Technology) at a high-level, and discussed the details of People and Process, and now need to address everyone’s favorite, Technology. Right now, there is a lot of very interesting technology available and what’s out there today has some…
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We’ve all heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. The online ad industry is vocal about the need for more brand advertising to move online as consumers tune out offline advertising on TV and in magazines. However, even with…
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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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How many of you work for a company that utilizes Salesforce.com? Its adoption is really quite large in sales and marketing departments. The functionality is quite robust for managing sales, marketing, trafficking and ad performance reporting. Unfortunately most companies have initially configured Salesforce for only its most basic capabilities. Then people…
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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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