Hello, New York! The Monsters have descended on the Big Apple for what's sure to be the best OPS Markets yet. We've got a bevy of industry-leading talent on deck to discuss what's next for the ad operations industry, from monetizing social data to reenergizing programmatic. If you can't make…
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“The truth is, digital media is overpriced.”I believe I flinched a bit as the agency executive made that blunt statement. We were chatting in the wake of a heated conference session about viewability, where the chief concern among the publisher quotient had been are agencies really going to pay more…
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In Part I of this series, we examined how programmatic premium is less a revolution than a set of tools pushing the notion of programmatic trading beyond the confines of RTB. However, this process is still in its infancy as sellers and buyers experiment with the vehicles that aim to…
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Malvertising is a growing issue among ad-ops professionals. In a survey for our new report, "How to Fight the Growing Threat of Malvertisements", we found that 90 percent of ad ops professionals acknowledge the threat of malvertising, and consider malvertising protection "very important."Check out a November 2012 feature by our business…
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In today’s digital advertising world, fast is key. And, as attention spans shorten, webpages load quicker, and clicks become swifter, advertisers are increasingly vying for consumers’ attention at breakneck speeds. On the sales side, the architecture to buy and sell advertising in a matter of milliseconds is already in place.…
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“I thought it would have jumped the shark by now,” says Terry Kawaja, founder and CEO of LUMA Partners. “But there are 10 of them now, constantly refreshed.” Display, search, video, mobile, social – each of these channels gets its own LUMAscape, a horizontal canvas packed tight with overstuffed banks of…
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As I mentioned in the first part of this wrap-up of the Publisher Forum: Sonoma and the Native Advertising Summit, questions surrounding native seem to spring eternal: do utilitarian campaigns perform better than ones that are simply entertaining? As publishers and brands get bolder and wiser, we’ll have much more…
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Carve it into a tree, with a heart circling the acronyms: DM+NA.Digital media and native advertising – absolutely made for each other. The most perfect pairing since peanut butter met jelly; a more powerful coupling than Beyonce and Jay-Z; more notorious in the digital advertising ecosytem than Bonnie and Clyde.…
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Among the dry-erase boards filled with to-dos, dual monitors, family photos and a company plant nursed back to glorious health, LiveRail's RJ Payomo creates programmatic video gold. Balance between work and life is important to Payomo, who heads out at six most days. And, when it comes to workspaces, Payomo…
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It is not a new technique, but technological advances such as Real-Time Bidding (RTB), Data Management Platforms (DMPs) and innovative look-a-like algorithms have transformed audience extension into an impressive revenue opportunity. Publishers are the gatekeepers to a wealth of data craved by advertisers, but there is no rule saying they…
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