The boom town in digital is being built in a video player, and the dilemma created by the boom is now a pretty famous one: There's more demand from advertisers for premium video inventory than most publishers can reasonably accommodate. That's where outstream video comes in. The promise of outstream…
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My father keeps full a handy sack of thoughtful maxims, and my childhood was filled with repeated phrases like, “You’ve got to go along to get along,” and “Choose your battles.” One was ingrained into my psyche at a very early age, and I find it continually relevant in the…
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I joked on a recent panel that one by one, verification, viewability and bot traffic became digital media panics; so what long-lingering issue is going to evolve into the next bit of ad tech hysteria?Our packed session at OPS cemented by opinion that ad blockers it, and people in the…
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Recently the tech media was awash in panic over mobilegeddon – end times were nigh as Google was switching up its search algorithm to favor mobile-friendly responsive design sites. However, mobilegeddon has long meant something different to digital revenue specialists: publishers witnessing increasing amounts of mobile traffic with dwindling revenue…
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“We assert that a common interoperable technical approach to measurement is preferable to multiple, incompatible and non-standard technologies.”Thus reads the charter of the Open Video Viewability (OpenVV) project led by TubeMogul in conjunction with 25-odd ad technology and measurement providers (the latter includes Nielsen and DoubleVerify), most of them household…
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“We think standards should be dead; standards have held back the industry for years,” says ReactX CEO Chip Meyers. “Thank goodness the leaderboard and skyscraper are finally going to the grave – there’s no money in them; the brands don’t want to use them; and publishers are getting rid of…
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Hark my words, publishers, and let them set you free: Pre-roll is not the be-all and end-all of digital video advertising. Sure, there’s post-roll and mid-roll, but let’s get past the rolls. In fact, let’s get past the video stream – in-stream video ad inventory is limited namely because premium video…
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This interview was republished, courtesy of Xcede.Peter Yardley-Jones is the current Head of Advertising Operations for zeebox in the United Kingdom. Here's what he had to say on the future of second-screen, market changes, and just what it means to jump into a career in ad-ops. From your professional opinion as…
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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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Video is everywhere, and everyone wants it. Whether from desktops or smartphones, 183 million people in the U.S. watched over 37 billion online videos in October 2012 alone, according to comScore. With daily unique views jumping 30% in the past year, video growth shows no sign of slowing, especially as…
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