Native advertising has developed quite the cachet in digital advertising in the past year, with even the Federal Trade Commission jumping into the debate on proper labeling. Indeed, some of this channel’s growing pains are borne right there in the name itself – “native.” Native advertising seeks to emulate a publisher’s…
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“What’s up with my fill rate? Why are the video ads loading so slow?”Those are the two questions publishers really don’t want to be asking themselves when it comes to digital video – especially if they’re dabbling in programmatic waters.High-value video inventory is the moneymaker of the moment for publishers…
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Image from a sponsored Industry Panel session at this year's London Screens.Last week I chaired my last AdMonsters conference for now. It was the conference looking at the second screen, omni-screen attribution, and the multi-channel aspect of advertising.Luckily, I had a second moderator too, so the day was a little…
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We're officially live from sunny Scottsdale, where the air is dry, the palmtrees are towering and, most importantly, where it's 2,000 miles from the impending Arctic front heading for the Northeast. But, don't fret if you couldn't join us in sunsoaked Arizona, we'll be coming at you live over the…
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At its San Francisco summit earlier this year, AppNexus used a slide chock full of poker chips to announce the technology platform was going "all in" on mobile. A gambling reference was an interesting choice – in the hazy world of mobile monetization is programmatic (namely RTB-driven) trading a good…
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Some premium publishers are likely reading the latest batch of hysterical articles describing the scourge of botnet traffic on digital advertising and thinking, "Tough cookies."Which isn't a bad way to put it – media buyers' obsession with chasing cookies and buying the cheapest inventory available through RTB-powered exchanges has created…
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Join us for our second Mashup, October 23 at 6 p.m. at Tumblr's headquarters in Manhattan's Flatiron District, as Tumblr's Lee Brown and Kate Maxwell discuss key steps to ensuring that your publication's Creative QA process stays afloat. Tumblr's native advertising platform allows advertisers to be content creators - Brown and…
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Marketers don’t want just branding or performance - they want both and it’s up to publishers to serve both needs. This often requires pubs to bridge the gap between their direct sales efforts and their programmatic channels. Federated Media's Walter Knapp, COO, and Chris Eberle, SVP and GM, Business Operations,…
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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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Five years ago at our Publisher Forum in Boulder, I heard people chanting. And by people I mean Canadians. Several of them. While a certain amount of singing and dancing is expected at AdMonsters events, I had not encountered this before.And the thing is, they weren’t chanting “Ad-Monsters, Ad-Monsters, Ad-Monsters”...…
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