According to the Bain Study “Building Brands Online”, in the next 3 years, brand marketers will spend close to 40% of their budget on cross-platform campaigns (up from roughly 25%). That’s about $52,000,000,000 being spent on cross platform campaigns in the near future. Unless you start making changes in your…
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Editor's note: This article was originally posted on the Krux Digital Blog.Overview Cookies are the primary mechanism by which publishers, advertisers, ad networks, ad exchanges, demand side platforms and data exchanges store and track information about users. Cookies are domain specific — in other words, a Cookie set by domain…
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Mike On Ads.So much of our time these days is spent talking about all the new features & capabilities that people are building into their adserving platforms. One component often neglected in these conversations is scalability.A hypothetical ad startupHere’s a pretty typical story.…
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Editor's note: Originally posted on the Operative Blog.That seems to be the latest measurement buzz word. Now…let me ask in a different way. Can your Ad Sales and Ad Ops teams scale to achieve the NEW technical demands of media buyers?In 2010, digital publishers in the US and Europe that are…
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As anyone who has had to pull data from rich media providers knows, the process can be tedious and error prone and the reporting interfaces tend to be cumbersome. Many Ad Ops teams wait until the end of the month to reconcile serving discrepancies. Unfortunately that means that any significant…
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If I asked you, right now, to explain your organization's cancellation or make-good policy – could you do it? Do you know who owns it, who is responsible for regular validation and who has the authority to change this policy? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, then…
Read MoreOverview To provide continuity and foster ongoing relationships among our members between our bi-annual conferences, AdMonsters hosts regular Members Dinner events in cities around the U.S. and in Europe. AdMonsters Dinners are informal, fun, social events - a great way for members to stay in touch, and for prospective members…
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The following is a continuation of a post written by Hugh Evans recapping a presentation at Publisher Forum EU 12 in June. The real nuts and bolts of what we wanted to cover in our presentation was still to come – the operational challenges that inevitably come along with a…
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This June, a colleague and I were kindly invited to present at AdMonsters’ 12th European Publisher Forum in Prague. We jumped at the chance to speak, and felt we had some important issues to raise surrounding mobile advertising operations; an area so far sparsely covered by any of the major…
Read MoreOutsourcing is increasingly under review by many publishers for all aspects of their business, including ad operations. If you do decide to go with an outsourcer, one of the major challenges is designing and implementing the service level agreement, or SLA. The SLA is meant to define success metrics, help govern…
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