OPS is the best place to connect with other digital media strategists and make the next steps in turning your digital media business into a profitable and efficient enterprise. You’ll hear from longtime industry stalwarts, learn from the sharpest minds in digital advertising, and meet the tech providers shaping the…
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OPS is the best place to connect with other digital media strategists and make the next steps in turning your digital media business into a profitable and efficient enterprise. You’ll hear from longtime industry stalwarts, learn from the sharpest minds in digital advertising, and meet the tech providers shaping the…
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If header bidding offers such a great boost for yield among its most vocal champions, why would a programmatically active publisher have reservations about implementing it? Well, there are a few things. But one of the top concerns making some publishers shy about header bidding is latency. Pre-bid calls are…
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Imagine you’re a brand and you’ve contracted an agency or vendor to run a direct-response display ad campaign. You’ve allowed 30 days post-view and post-click ad attribution, along with allowing pixels (both retargeting and conversion) to be placed throughout your sales funnel. After some initial hiccups, everything seems to be going…
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The prognosis for programmatic video looks pretty bright: eMarketer estimates that ad spend will hit $5.37 billion in 2016, which is more than 50% of total predicted digital video ad spend ($9.59 billion). However, the current situation is a bit cloudier: issues with latency and standards are making premium publishers…
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Theorem’s 2015 survey of viewability trends, conducted for InSkin Media, show that challenges in measurement abound on both sides of the Atlantic. We asked Theorem VP of Digital Strategy Dominic Finney about differences in viewability between North America and Europe, how publishers can avert the effects of divergent measurement methods…
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As the ultimate destination for advertising and interface for users, digital publishers have long borne the responsibility of preventing malvertising and other nasty business from sneaking through. However, quality control is imperative for all the players in the advertising chain – and in the last few years, exchanges and other…
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The challenge for digital publishers, in a nutshell: Keep your business profitable enough to continue producing quality content, via an ad-supported model... while acknowleding users' awareness of, and frequent resistance to, being advertised to... while also confronting advertisers' increasing hesitancy to pay for any ad space users can't see easily...…
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In “15 Million Merits” – my favorite episode from the contemporary “Twilight Zone”-esque anthology, “Black Mirror” – our dystopian future protagonist lies in his cubicle-like bedroom with no walls, but a giant video screen that also serves as a wall. After a long day of riding a stationary bike at…
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For years, GroupM honchos have said that ads not seen by human beings should not be paid for. Now media agency is making good on that promise – in addition to numerous US publishers billing off a 100% viewable impression standard, AdNews Australia reports that nine Australian publishers have cut…
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