Leave it to Google to blur the lines between direct and indirect sales. In June, DoubleClick launched Preferred Deals in beta, allowing publishers to offer chosen buyers a sneak peek at certain inventory before it hit the wider exchange. However, the inventory is fixed-price – fixed price and non-guaranteed? Madness!…
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The RTB marketplace is not yet operating as a truly efficient market with equal benefit to both sides. This is due to basic economics: Supply exceeds demand, and auction-based pricing combined with low bid density results in a market rife with arbitrage.Buyers are accustomed to drawing from a large commoditized…
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The latest TubeMogul report on video RTB in the UK found that inventory available for RTB grew at a fleet 13.8% rate per month during the second quarter of 2012, maxing out at 29.9 million streams per day in July. However, average CPM took a nose dive, from £6.47 in…
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The term seemed to be omnipresent at Digiday Exchange last Thursday. “Programmatic premium” – The phrase came up in many sessions and was overheard in chatter during coffee breaks. If programmatic premium had a scent, it would have lingered throughout the great hall of the W Hotel all day long.During…
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The past two weeks’ Olympic triumphs and tragedies have driven home to me the importance of publishers’ need to use technology to monetize dramatic spikes in traffic. Ok, you wonder how I can make the leap from sports spectaculars to advertising inventory monetization.London 2012 is an amazing – actually a…
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Welcome to the AdMonsters Daily Digest! We scour the news for digital advertising and operations news every day so you don’t have to – we’re nice like that.We’ll be updating this page throughout the day but have a peruse of all the news you can use (that’s right – I…
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Welcome to the AdMonsters Daily Digest! We scour the news for digital advertising and operations news every day so you don’t have to – we’re nice like that. We’ll be updating this page throughout the day but have a peruse of all the news you can use (that’s right…
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There's been a lot of talk recently about Facebook's warm hug with a few select Demand Side Platforms. This is not a surprise move by Facebook and neither are the restrictions they are placing on buyers. For example, only allowing buyers to bring their own data. Targeting data from Facebook…
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The question of viable, sustainable and tangible metrics in digital marketing isn't one that is going away any time soon. More and more agencies are demanding better metrics from us and publishers too see the benefit in 'premium inventory'. We've been fully across the 'Viewable Impressions' metric that gained popularity last…
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Following Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s hints early in the week of a possible separation, News Corp. announced on June 28 it’s splitting its massive media operation into two parts. One entity will house the newspaper and book publishing business while the other is home to the entertainment side (which includes the…
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