It's the first AdMonsters event of the year at the Grange Tower Hotel in blustery London. OPS Markets features a wide variety of speakers analyzing the rapid development of data-driven advertising and pondering what's next. The two Gs of AdMonsters' ever-diligent content team – that would be EU Editor Gautam…
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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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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…
Read MoreI've heard from numerous publishers that they are regularly overbooked when it comes to video ads; some ad ops teams are actually seeking out ways to drive more video traffic on their sites. Overbooking has become an unwanted trend as video exploded this year ($2 billion in spend!), but the…
Read MoreOur friends over at LiveRamp have put together this insightful infographic charting recent developments in revenue strategies for publishers – you guessed it, a lot of the data circulates around RTB. Currently 44% of publishers surveyed are using RTB, which is estimated to handle around $6.5 billion in ad spend gloabally by…
Read MoreThe Sunday Times recently ran a story about how ordinary families could make money out of YouTube's new policy of rewarding those who upload popular videos with a share of the revenue optimised against that content. To illustrate the point, the writer hung the story on the success of the…
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This exclusive mobile coverage is brought to you by AdMonsters OPS Mobile. Register today for OPS Mobile, AdMonsters' mobile advertising conference, which will be held December 7, 2011 in New York. Mobile has been dubbed the ‘holy grail’ of advertising given that it is already the most ubiquitous multimedia device…
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Every day worldwide people are inundated by an ever-increasing amount of information. And the problem grows worse each year. An April 2011 survey of 200 respondents conducted by Magnify.net pulled back the curtain on our digital lives. Nearly 50% of respondents reported that they were connected to the internet “from the…
Read MoreDigital media decision making is constantly evolving, and with demand-side platforms, digital agencies have set up lightning-fast environments for buying and selling a variety of online ad impressions, similar to the computerized stock trading desks used by quantitative traders. DSPs are remaking the media landscape and increasingly blurring the boundaries…
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Last year when I first joined AdMonsters I wrote an article about the Video Ad Serving Template, commonly know as the VAST which is a XML standard proposed and maintained by the IAB. So what has become of VAST in the 12 months since? Has the industry embraced the VAST…
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