The dust may have well and truly settled on the Vienna Publisher Forum but the learnings that those who attended acquired across the three-day event will manifest themselves in the months and years ahead. Here’s a quick run-down of ten points I think we should all take heed of –…
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The days of the desktop internet are almost over.The writing was on the wall back in 2010 when smartphone sales first overtook those of PCs; when Morgan Stanley predicted that mobile search would overtake desktop search by 2013; and when Apple first unveiled the iPad. Since then the trends that…
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How ad technology vendors capture, monitor and use data can have a tremendous impact on their success. Let’s look at seven practices that can transform a vendor’s data collection processes and business model for the better.1. Invest in Data Operations TalentIn my last blog entry on the metamorphosis of the…
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One can recall a time in the recent past when the ePrivacy Directive appeared as an apparition on the horizon, a stern Directive, but one with vague requirements that no one seemed to be paying much mind. In the second quarter of 2012, the market shifted dramatically, led initially with…
Read MoreThis week, we caught up with Erich Wasserman, who co-founded MediaMath and led its sales and account teams as they built the first agency trading desks and incubated the DSP (demand-side platform) market. We asked him a few questions about automated media markets, especially how they've shaped the field for…
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One of the highlights of AdMonsters' OPS Markets event in New York was a panel dedicated to the future of programmatic selling, featuring representatives from isocket, Maxifier, Varick Media Management and WebMD. The consensus seemed to be that programmatic buying has but one place to go next: premium territory.But it…
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The shockwaves reverberated around the digital advertising industry fast and hard – included in Microsoft’s just-released Windows 8 upgrade is Internet Explorer 10, which not only features Do Not Track functionality but is also the first browser with “on” as the default setting.Oh yes, even Google agreed a few months…
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The funeral procession for mobile UDIDs trudges on, and you can imagine the mourners – mainly mobile ad tech specialists – limping after the casket, bawling their eyes out at the loss of the great consumer tracking tool. Or maybe not – numerous substitute solutions for mobile tracking have popped…
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“Originally there were five different versions of the definition of ‘Do Not Track,” commented Aleecia McDonald, Cochair of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Tracking Protection Working Group (as well as a representative of Mozilla and a member and a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society) at…
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For digital media to work, advertisers need to reach and positively engage consumers. There are billions of Internet-connected devices connecting every corner of the world so reach certainly isn’t the issue.The challenge is this: how do we as an industry parlay that massive reach into positive impact? Without the current…
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