“It’s verification all over again!” I smirked on overhearing this statement following an intense discussion on viewability at the Digital Brand Forum in New York City recently. For an ad tech reporter, the verification battles were boon times – there were plenty of digital inches available to sop up the endless…
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It’s a common adage in retail (brick and mortar as well as digital) that the customer doesn’t cease to exist once he/she leaves the store. The same logic applies to digital publishing: when someone exits a media company’s digital property, that user doesn’t vanish into thin air, and neither does…
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Some “facts” you might not know about me, particularly if you’re going by the picture on the upper right hand side of this page.I’m a married male head of household who speaks Spanish. I have two teenage children and a high school diploma. I’m retired. My income is below $50,000.…
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In our work at Krux, especially with our Data Sentry and Inspector products, we see many different approaches for firing pixels, some good, some not as good. We'd like to see the industry adopt better practices for delivering pixels to end users.First - when I say "pixel", I mean an…
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This wraps up my first full year at AdMonsters as US Editor, and it’s been a helluva ride. The AdMonsters editorial team has spent 2012 finding its voice in an ever-crowded landscape of ad tech trades, and the below list shows our successes, including content from our recently introduced Connect…
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Real-time bidding is programmatic trading, but programmatic trading is not simply RTB. That statement is not a riddle, though in the ever mind-warping universe of digital advertising technology, it’s caused a lot of confusion over programmatic buying. “RTB is just the mechanism – literally the buy approach,” explains Christine Peterson, Director…
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AdMonsters has taken over the first level of the Brewery today, 19 Nov. – Content Czar Rob Beeler has grabbed the stage to explain that yes, we're going to talk about some ridiculously cool multi-screen tech, but AdMonsters Screens is about taking it from possible to plausible, and beyond that:…
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The press has lately been wall to wall with revelations about the emergent ‘data economy.’ True, we have the means to collect a wide variety of data from a variety of consumers in every industry, but that alone isn’t enough to spurn a data ‘revolution.’ Numbers alone are just numbers.…
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Somehow on May 26, when the UK's version of the dreaded EU Cookie Directive came into force, the Internet did not crumble and burn to ashes. That could be partially credited to the last-minute (almost literally) addition of "implied consent" by the Information Commissioner, but many British publishers have had…
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Making the dive into programmatic buying can be daunting, but a lot less so when fortified policies are in place. Below is an amalgam of how aggressive Media Trust clients in particular address ad quality and data leakage issues, split into four quality segments. Ad Security Data Security Ad Quality…
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