As the word “Addressable!” echoed from beach to yacht to luxury suite across La Croisette in Cannes, a solidly digital friend asked me, “What does that even mean?” I smirked and replied, “It’s a TV industry term for what digital people consider programmatic TV-buying, and it looks like digital is…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 27, 2019 Are Programmatic Demand Vendors Becoming An Endangered Species? Are programmatic demand vendors becoming an endangered species like the Sirocco Kakapo parrot? Well, if they're not careful they just might be. Many SSPs aren't giving publishers the data they need to optimize their programmatic yield and meet…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 13, 2019 Ops Is Community At the 2019 Ops conference, a somewhat unexpected word echoed throughout the sessions, from the morning keynote to the final talk: community. The idea of audience is out-of-date, and the term too limiting. Publishers and brands need to be thinking about their…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 31, 2019 Will Blockchain Solution Providers Tame the Cannes Lion? The road to Cannes is paved with many changes this year. You can certainly expect to see and hear a fair amount from companies developing next-generation media, marketing, and advertising solutions underpinned with blockchain and cryptography. Solutions…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 23, 2019 Blockchain Leads the Transparency Brigade: Lucidity's Miguel Morales During its short time bouncing around the ad-tech echoplex, blockchain has run the full hype cycle: from "the next big thing" to "running joke" and now "potentially legit." Tech startups are finally deploying actionable and scalable solutions to a variety of problems,…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 16, 2019 Does the Network Television Upfront Still Matter in a Digital World? 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…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 9, 2019 Ops Turns 10 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 AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler. All I knew is that I was going to find myself…
Read MoreAdMonsters April 11, 2019 Ops is Your Beacon in Uncertain Times 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…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 14, 2019 Building Community Trust and Leadership Blavity Inc. Breaks the Media Mold At a time when the media is regularly under a litany of changes, publishing powerhouse and entrepreneurial advisor, Morgan DeBaun, CEO & Founder Blavity Inc. is moving full steam ahead. Blavity Inc. is her…
Read MoreAdMonsters February 21, 2019 How Can Publishers Tell a Better Audience Story? 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…
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