Header bidding (also referred to as tagless bidding) might seem as mysterious as it is exciting. Sure, it’s driving mad revenue for all your publisher friends, but what are these whispers about editing source code, latency and bizarre implementations never seen before in digital advertising? Oh dear, oh my!Not to…
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The latest wave of advertising is giving me some chilling flashbacks to the age of endless animated MySpace banners, pop-unders and other horrors of the aughts. Instead of learning from that assault of awfulness, digital advertising has somehow grown more intrusive and annoying – in-feed units, auto-play video (with sound?!?!),…
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An attendee asked why I didn’t throw ad blocking in my recent top themes of the Charleston Publisher Forum. Truth be told, I thought ad blocking needed a dedicated #OPSPOV, especially considering the fallout from Apple’s launch of iOS9 today. As all the Apple fanboys rub their palms together in…
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Somehow I, Sir Casper of the Pasty People, escaped the South Carolina sun with only the slightest of burns on my ears and neck (yes, my redneck is so bad that I have to hide it with a mullet).Of course, I did spend the majority of the 36th American edition…
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Match every impression with the channel likely to garner the most revenue – seems like the stuff of operational daydreams, but I’m not going to tell you to snap out of it. Such dynamic inventory allocation is real, oh-so-real, and it’s referred to as holistic yield management. I know that…
Read MoreBrand advertisers and agencies have decided viewability is their chosen cause this year — and why not? The point of serving ads is for those ads to be seen. If no one sees the ad, why should the advertiser be obliged to pay for it?Well, the complicated part is that,…
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Sept. 29 at Mansueto Venture's Headquarters – 7 World Trade Center, NYC. Tagless technology has taken the industry by storm, offering publishers impressive bumps in revenue. But there's still a great deal of mystery around it: how does it work, how do I integrate the tech, and why is it…
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Contact: Rachel Feldman Marketing Manager AdMonsters rfeldman@admonsters.comNEW YORK (July 27, 2015) – AdMonsters, the leader in strategic insight on the future of digital media and advertising technology, announces that Brian LaRue has been hired as the organization’s staff writer. As a staff writer, LaRue will be tasked with reporting on…
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Earlier this year, Will Spann was volunteered as a speaker on a panel I was leading about HTML5 creative and responsive site issues. We had chatted before, but as we prepped for the discussion and he described the Creative Lab at The Weather Company, I was blown away. Publisher creative offerings…
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Quick update: although Flash-based creatives are greyed out on Firefox, they are still registering as impressions. Also, some agencies are asking advertisers to disinclude Firefox browsers from their campaigns. According to NetMarketShare, Firefox has a12% share of desktop browsers. Facebook head of security Alex Stamos grabbed a lot of attention this…
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