One of the advantages of having been in the business as long as I have is perspective (okay, hold off on the “old” jokes). Over the past 14 years, I’ve seen a tremendous amount of complexity arise around the lack of interoperability between digital marketing technologies and the sites they…
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2011 represented a turning point for the consumer web, having brought fundamental changes to how information is stored, shared, and transmitted and to how individuals communicate and connect. To date, bandwidth, storage limits and user access points have suppressed the potential of a web-enabled world. Those barriers have melted away,…
Read MoreOnline video ad spending is expected to grow more than 43% next year, but even rapid adoption and eager ad buyers can’t overcome the complexity of multiple video ad formats. This crazy patchwork quilt of formats has been suffocating video, as the nascent industry leaps ahead of standards. Luckily, the…
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When you work in digital advertising and follow industry blog after industry blog, you begin to notice a pattern. All the crowd writes about and seems to care about is data management. Data is our future! Data is our only hope! Perhaps due to the astronomic rise of Internet usage…
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A longtime presence in the data management and marketplace arena, Lotame closed off its data-driven ad network to new customers in August in the hopes of building more interest in its data management platform, Crowd Control – the move was successful, with a dozen new publishers and content groups signing…
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When the EU Privacy Directive on cookies came into effect in May of this year – the first time the legislation had been updated since 1995 – it left a lot of people in the industry scratching their heads as to what it meant and for whom. As with any…
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Following years of unfulfilled hype, mobile is now undeniably becoming a staple of mainstream media consumption, spurred for the main part by the success of the iOS and Android ecosystems. However, despite rapid advancements in mobile Internet usage, advertising revenues for the medium severely lag behind that of other digital…
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The AdMonsters US Content Team, Gavin Dunaway and Maria Tucker, are excited to bring you this live blog from AdMonsters OPS Mobile at NYC's Metropolitan Pavilion. Stay tuned to see what's rocking the mobile ad world! GD8:30 – Sipping a piping hot cup of coffee, nibbling on a croisant and watching…
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I don’t know what to expect when I load the Sonar app on my iPhone and click on the WIRED holiday pop-up store in Times Square, NYC. Lo and behold, numerous names instantly appear, all of them in my general proximity. My Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare accounts are hooked into…
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If you got the right stuff, it’s not a bad idea to get a stamp of approval. Multi-channel ad server Smart AdServer just emerged from an intense four-month audit of its systems as the first U.S. certified mobile ad server according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mobile Guidelines. We sat…
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