Remember the Sizmek debacle? This awkward state of affairs really got me thinking about the word “partnership” and how disposable a word it has become in our industry, says AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler. Someone can have 10-to-15 header-bidding “partners,” but all that means is you’ve got contracts with that number…
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Automation can be as easy as 1, 2, 3… Whether they involve campaign setup, creative management, or reporting and reconciliation, manual and mundane tasks siphon away enthusiasm from your ad operations team. Worse, they distract your best producers from initiatives like customer success that truly move the needle. Integrating more…
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Producing the highest bid from demand sources ultimately leads to increased latency, given the amount of time it takes for multiple auctions to take place at once. A recent report from MonetizeMore shows exactly how publishers who set aggressive timeouts—around 500-600ms—to improve page loads end up missing out on the…
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Before the news of Google’s ad department reorganization broke, publishers had already been getting quite itchy over the machinations of Google Ad Manager. Now outgoing Director of Product Development Jason Bigler officially announced in a blog a few weeks ago what publishers had been hearing from their GAM account managers: the…
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To move the industry towards a more transparent future, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has been hard at work releasing specifications that help shed light on the programmatic buying and selling of ads. In 2017 it was ads.txt. This year, it’s sellers.json and supplychain object. But the question is, what exactly…
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On September 18, 2019, AdMonsters brought together an illustrious panel (Time to Get Creative), featuring Derek Gatts, Vice President, Ad Product CNN, Katie Spagnuolo, Associate Director, Media Strategy & Distribution, TripAdvisor and Ron Duque, Senior Director, Revenue Operations, GroundTruth, to discuss how to leverage the latest breakthroughs in creative technology,…
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6:00 pm — 8:30 pm New York Times 620 8th Ave, 15th Floor (entrance on 40th Street) New York, NY 10018 (Photo ID required) Enjoy a night of beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and networking with your local publisher and agency peers, as well as an insightful discussion about the importance of…
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In the past week, Google became embroiled in a serious face-off against a firing squad of 50 state attorney generals related to the tech giant’s dominance over the digital advertising ecosystem. The funny thing is Google is the only one in the industry—including ad tech companies, advertisers and publishers—who doesn’t…
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11 am EDT An ever-shifting digital advertising landscape offers challenges aplenty for publisher revenue professionals—but it also brings countless opportunities to boost the bottom line. Taking advantage of these openings requires flexibility in your operations—how can you inject agility into your team and tech to realize your revenue potential, manage…
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It’s still early days, but video header bidding is steadily making headway—powered by the growth of Prebid and an assortment of vendors offering prebid.js bidder adapters to publishers, making the implementation of header bidding much easier. One company entering the race to advance Prebid in the video world is global…
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