Last week I attended the IAB Innovation Days event as part of Internet Week here in New York. Here are some of the highlights from the two day event.Emotion in AdvertisingRoss Levinsohn of Yahoo! and Neal Mohan of Google talked about how as an industry we are not connecting with…
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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 MoreEditor's note: Rob Beeler's blog post originally appeared on ClickZ.As part of my job, I do my best to keep an ear to the ground and keep track of what operations people are talking about. Amazingly enough, it's 2011 and issues like late creative and discrepancies still pop up. Being…
Read MoreSince our industry loves acronyms and we have all of this conversation around data, this seems fitting for the new acronym of the month(s). What exactly is GIGO, it’s a term coined in the technology space for a computers ability to process even the most corrupt piece of information and…
Read MoreIn a prior AdMonsters article (https://www.admonsters.com/blog/back-basics-or-mobile-advertisers-dilemma), I spoke about gut reaction changes implemented to impact goals for mobile display campaigns, and how the basis for change must instead be a solid foundation of data and analysis over time. Let’s consider this for a moment with respect to mobile display…
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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 MoreEditor's Note: aiMatch recently released an eBook, "Building A Solid Data Strategy" which you can download free from their site. In this post Chris Hanburger, VP of Sales at aiMatch, discusses the need for publishers to have a data foundation.A lot of people in our industry are talking about data. …
Read MoreAnyone in their right mind who reads about, works towards or is rewarded because of the strong growth in online lead generation must surely wonder what loss of rational thought resulted in the commercialisation of "maximum scrub rates". Discuss. So, the first student to complete a BA in “The Beatles”…
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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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