The long-standing ritual of TV network television upfront presentations are now running for the 2019-2010 season, with the major networks wrapping up these showcases from Monday, May 14 through Thursday, May 17, 2019. New programming is presented to affiliates and buyers, and a window is opened for buyers to secure…
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The day before Ops 10 years ago, AdMonsters Founder, Bowen Dwelle, had an epiphany: Ops is Sexy. We had never discussed this kind of messaging before, says Rob Beeler, Chairman, AdMonsters. All I knew is that I was going to find myself in front of a few hundred people (Ops…
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CDP might sound like another martech or adtech acronym that will make its way into obscurity, but in a post-GDPR world where first-party relationships will be vital to survival, the Consumer Data Platform (CDP) is the ultimate tool for true consumer identity resolution. During his presentation, “All You Need Is…
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The emerging technology Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) is upending the way television has always been measured as an advertising medium. ACR allows TV, still the largest vehicle for ad industry spending, to compete with and defend against other digital video advertising platforms. With most consumers, by 2021, able to view…
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The air around digital media is thick with uncertainty. Many of us in the industry are waiting for one or two shoes to drop. But we shouldn’t be waiting—we should be coming together and engaging in discussion about what comes next. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to progress in digital media…
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For years publishers have sold advertising targeted around specific content, using available first-party data as the basis for establishing value around the opportunity. That value proposition is built around the scale of the audience, which boils down to selling pageviews, impressions and clicks. But your audience is a lot more…
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Digital media is looking forward to another year of impending doom as a fresh piece of confounding privacy regulation hangs over the space. The CCPA, which will affect any company that touches the data of at least 50,000 Californians a year, is in the middle of a statewide hearing tour…
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Bad ads are a pretty terrible thing for the entire ad ops ecosystem. By 2025 ad fraud—malvertising redirects and malicious IBV to name a few—will cost advertisers more than $50bn, accounting for 30% share of the overall digital market, so warned The World Federation of Advertisers back in 2016. But…
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Delivering relevant and contextual content and truly targeted advertising is a big challenge. Often it's a problem of not using the right tools in the right way. Andrew Beehler, Sr. Manager Programmatic & Yield Operations at Digital Trends shares how to integrate the usefulness of a CDP with the best…
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