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iFrames, JavaScript and Ad Delivery

The 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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Digital Ad Operations: The Bigger Picture

Editor's note: The post originally appeared on the UM blog.The world of Digital Ad Operations has changed dramatically over the past year.  It was just over a year ago that we all started using acronyms like DSP, RTB, SSP, and DCO on a regular basis.  In fact, I remember having…

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Building an Ad Server to Serve Your Application

Last Thursday my talk on Bootstrapping Your AdServer provoked hems and haws at the AdMonsters Network Forum (Dec 9th, 2010) in New York City. My intention was to provide a bit of insight to the challenges that publishers encounter on a regular basis; especially those in the midst of a…

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The Science of Display – Introduction

With this blog post, I’d like to begin a series of posts on the technology and data-science that power modern display advertising (especially at Turn, where we’ve always been at the cutting-edge of innovation in this area). We will explore why the advances we’re making in the new field of computational advertising matter…

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