The crowd is re-assembling at Estancia La Jolla on this, the second day of AdMonsters Publisher Forum 37 (you can check out the liveblog for the first day here -- there was a lot going on). We had a packed day yesterday, with some excellent discussions and a ton of…
Read MoreLooks like the AdMonsters editorial team chose just the right moment to get out of cloudy, autumnal New York City, and the right destination. La Jolla, CA is about as sunny and warm as any travel agent would want us to believe. These are prime conditions for AdMonsters Publisher Forum…
Read MoreAs the growth of programmatic transactions has reached nearly 50% of all inventory bought and sold, there has been a global proliferation of ad marketplaces for publishers to consider when developing and evolving their indirect monetization strategies. While Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange and AppNexus may dominate the conversation, there’s no…
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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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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…
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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…
Read MoreA new report from fraud detection company Forensiq sounds the alarm on widespread and ostensibly new forms of mobile ad fraud. But a closer look at how advertisers are getting bilked shows that first responders here need to be not brands, but publishers and other app providers.Forensiq’s report does detail…
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Location, location, location is not just the mantra of real estate agents anymore. The ability to reach your audience where you want to reach them – and hopefully when they want to be reached – has long been a top perk for advertising on mobile. Of course, hyper-localized targeting sounds…
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When I last spoke with Craig Leshen, President of OAO, he was helping explain that programmatic isn’t automatic – there’s still a lot of manual work that goes into these new systems. While they have helped to simplify certain functions, in many ways these systems have added to the complexity…
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