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…
Read MoreI was recently asked to lead a session "What New Page Designs and New Ad Units Mean for Ad Ops" at Admonsters Publisher Forum held in San Diego this past August. When I was hashing out topics with the organizers, we quickly identified a topic that hit quite close to…
Read MoreI’ve been threatening on twitter (@MarkMcEachran) to write a book on the things publishers need to know about Real-Time Bidding (RTB). At the Rubicon Project, we like to talk about ‘RTB Done Right’ and how to help publishers understand what’s really going on. With a full-time day job I don’t…
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Global warming is not the only thing raising the temperatures on Madison Avenue lately. Video advertising is hot and marketers can not get enough of it. Expected to grow 40 percent in each of the next two years, it’s one of the best tools for online marketers looking to reach…
Read More"Private Exchange" is probably the only buzz word in the industry right now without a TLA. That’s almost a crime considering the huge potential they offer to both publishers and advertisers. Much has already been discussed about their proposed value prop for publishers—greater control over inventory prices and ability to…
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(But using them is still an art.)By Thomas Siegman, VP Client Services, RSG Media & Mayank Agarwal, Product Manager, Zoox AnalyticsA spate of new tools is letting publishers take back their place at the table, giving them critical insights into inventory management, pricing, and products—a position that they were in…
Read MoreDear AdMonsters, Let me start by saying that I am doing a session on this topic in Memphis next week. If you are going and will be joining the session, please send feedback before Monday and I can incorporated it into the presentation. Since Google announced that page load time…
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Last year when I first joined AdMonsters I wrote an article about the Video Ad Serving Template, commonly know as the VAST which is a XML standard proposed and maintained by the IAB. So what has become of VAST in the 12 months since? Has the industry embraced the VAST…
Read MoreThe type of ad delivery a site uses can have far reaching impacts. Everyone's had a conversation with the Content or IT team that started "Your ads are making the site ...!" This is usually followed by any one of a number of complaints: slow; install malware; totally unusable; leak…
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I know! Not all beacons/pixels/cookies (oh my!) are used to bilk dollars from Premium Publishers via an audience driven model. There are analytics tools that can help provide insight into traffic patterns, measurement of user frequency and in the end make a greater and more enjoyable user experience for the…
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