Believe it or not, the AdMonsters content team has been fretting about whether we have too much viewability in our OPS agenda. What? How is that possible? There is no such thing as too much viewability! Please – there sure is. Yes, viewability is the topic du jour (du année? du decáde?), and…
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Welcome to another edition of Viewability Hacks! We hope our last article featuring Ziff Davis' Chrome Extension awoke your inner ops McGuyver. This week, Whitepages shares its Inventory Request Template spreadsheet (download), which is actually handy for much more than viewability. Jeff Mayer, a great AdMonsters resource who recently shifted from Whitpages…
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Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that viewability is a post-campaign metric? We can target ads based on HTML cookies in real-time, why can’t we determine whether the impression associated with that cookie is also in view, or at least has a high chance of being in…
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Ad ops and hacking have long ridden side by side (check out this oral history of ad ops for more tales), so it's no surprise that the rise of viewability has ops pros reaching for their inner Macgyvers. Come on, you can even hear the theme song as you read…
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Download the latest Publisher Viewability Litmus Test here. (Note: You must log in or register with AdMonsters to download the survey.) From the Executive Summary: In April 2014, shortly after the Media Rating Council lifted its embargo on transacting display inventory on a viewability basis, AdMonsters fired out a survey to its…
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I can’t remember any change in digital media sales that has been as dramatic as the concept of viewability. It paves the way for efficiency and opens the door to exciting metrics – for example, the idea of selling based on attention – which are good for advertisers, agencies and…
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Take the Fall 2014 Viewability Litmus Test Survey. Open Now until November 14.Earlier this year – and on the heels of the MRC's decision to lift its advisory on viewability — we surveyed ad operations leaders at more than 50 publishers about their experiences with, and opinions on, viewable impressions. Publishers'…
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The chief finding from a Winterberry Group/IAB report on programmatic has been the subject of many conversations at AdMonsters lately: 99% of global publishers have some kind of programmatic offering. This runs the gamut from programmatic direct and private marketplaces to simply filling some unsold inventory via open RTB.Things are…
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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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Fifty percent of pixels in view on the in-focus browser tab for two continous seconds. It doesn’t seem like a giant barrier to cross for a video ad to be considered in-view – and that was the point.Following the June 30 lifting of the Media Rating Council’s advisory against transacting…
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