In addition to upgrading its publisher-side data management platform with some slick new tools (including social data integrations), Krux Digital announced today that it’s gone global, now providing services for European and Japanese media companies. We caught up with Director of Client Services Brian Buizer to discuss some of the…
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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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This exclusive interview with Matt Harty, General Manager, Accuen APAC at Annalect (Omnicom Media Group), is brought to you by AdMonsters Southeast Asia. AdMonsters Southeast Asia brings commercial directors and operations leaders at the forefront of the field in the region together to lead the discussion on building the market and…
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The Forrester Wave report on Sell-Side Platforms sets the stage for the publisher ecosystem in 2012 by labeling SSPs a “vital part of the publisher tech stack.” The SSP is an increasingly necessary tool for managing and optimizing a plethora of indirect sales channels – oh, and making sure they’re…
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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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As we tick away the final days of 2011, hopefully you're planning your New Year's Eve party and not stressing out about yield management in 2012. Over here at AdMonsters, we're pondering the year to come for the ad operations community, and the first step is to examine what happened in…
Read MoreThe Super Bowl is one of my favorite events of the year, no matter who is playing for the Vince Lombardi trophy. It's simply a great time to catch up with old friends while over-indulging in fattening foods and alcoholic beverages. This year all my buds will gather around my 13-inch…
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2011 represented a turning point for the consumer web, having brought fundamental changes to how information is stored, shared, and transmitted and to how individuals communicate and connect. To date, bandwidth, storage limits and user access points have suppressed the potential of a web-enabled world. Those barriers have melted away,…
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It was a cold time in early spring 2007, but a hot time for the ad tech market. Yahoo! was buying Right Media, Google was acquiring DoubleClick and Microsoft was scooping up AdECN and aQuantive. Major media companies were making big bets – $850 million, $3.1 billion, $6.1 billion – to…
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