We kick off today's OPS by celebrating five years of Rob Beeler as AdMonsters' content czar and chief emcee. Here's to five more, buddy!But onto the meat – Derek Metz of Acceleration details early results from our Publisher Maturity Index survey – it's not too late to add your insight…
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Ad tech aficianado Volker Ballueder recently recapped our latest European Publisher Forum from his point of view. Here's what he had to say on some of the conference's burning issues and hot topics, including why innovation may be a competitive publisher's saving grace.Over the past few months I have had…
Read MoreAh, Sonoma! Your vineyards so lush, your sun so spicy, your breeze so cold. The Monsters have assembled and after some wine-fueled fracas on Sunday night, we're ready to roll with the Publisher Forum Sonoma agenda. First up, Brian Monahan, EVP and Managing Partner at MAGNA GLOBAL, describing the post-audience…
Read MoreTwitter Opens Up to New EraHas Twitter hopped on the Facebook train? Well, with the release of its own advertising API earlier this week, it may seem like it to some. The much-anticipated API program launched Tuesday to equal parts fanfare and fright. The program offers two APIs, one for…
Read MoreStarting the Year in Full GearIt’s been another exciting week for the AdMonsters team. The year’s first Publisher Forum in Sonoma is officially sold out. And, with around 150 confirmed participants landing in Northern California March 3 – March 6, Sonoma is sure to kick off this year’s schedule of…
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A number of partners I’ve been working with have mentioned casually that they are experimenting with creating a marketplace in their adserver by collapsing the prioritization settings. For a lot of publishers, this is the latest version of the struggle with sales channel conflict that they have been wrestling with…
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Deadspin Didn't Bring Home the Bacon on Te'o StoryAs your Facebook and Twitter feeds might have indicated, one of the biggest news stories this week – providing Lance Armstrong some welcome shade from the media glare – was the deception of/by Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend. As AdAge reports, although…
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While RTB may be nearly ubiquitous among U.S. publishers these days, adoption of the technology across the Atlantic has taken a much more leisurely pace. This isn’t that surprising considering that issues from privacy to highly localized markets make integrating automated selling systems across the European landscape a seemingly Herculean…
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With the growth in digital ad spend via real-time bidding (RTB) validating its place as an established method of media buying, the debate has now turned to the likelihood of premium display inventory coming into the programmatic trading environment at scale. RTB has proven itself to offer greater efficiencies in…
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On Thursday, November 15th at New York City’s Core Club, over 100 digital media folks gathered to watch a series of debates between some of the industry’s most provocative thought leaders. The Great Debate, as the event was called, took on some of the thorniest issues that the industry is…
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