Programmatic guaranteed deals have been in the air for a while now. But as weβve seen at several AdMonsters events, when a session on programmatic opens up into the Q&A segment, thereβs still a lot of confusion about what programmatic guaranteed means. The marketplace hasnβt made clarity on this terminology…
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Repent, sinners, because theΒ digital media apocalypse is now upon us. Even outside the trades, the news is awash in talks of corrections; discourses on the failure of advertisingΒ and why subscriptions are the only option; and pre-emptive surrenders of souls to the Duopoly. I hear bunker sales are through the roof…
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8 p.m. β 9:30 p.m. Immediately following OpsX NYC The Malt House FiDi β Armoury Room 9 Maiden Lane Bet. Broadway & Nassau New York, NY 10038 **Must be registered for OpsX NYC to attend
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Discovery's $40 Million Investment in Thrillist's Parent Company This week it was announced Discovery Communications would be investing $40 million in Group Nine Media, the company that owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo and Seeker. Thatβs less major than their $100 million investment in Group Nine last year, but still very…
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Discrepancies in campaign reporting may be an ever-present scourge--but let's not mistake them for a force of nature beyond anyone's control. As the digital ad ecosystem evolves and gets smarter about its business, there's more value at stake with each impression. That said, managing discrepancies can feel like a long…
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I donβt want to sound like an alarmist, but if you think itβs hard for publishers to bend to the whims of Google and Facebook to get their content out to a mass audience, just think for a few seconds about what it might be like playing ball with ISPs…
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Net Neutrality on the Chopping Block Earlier today, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to end net neutrality regulations. If his strategy was to sneak this one out on the wire during a holiday week, to make smaller waves, I'm not sure if that's going to work, because…
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Ads.txt landed in the digital media world circled by a lot more confusion than you'd expect from a text file. Although the goals of rendering domain spoofing worthless andΒ cutting down on arbitrageΒ were quite noble, the approach was almostΒ too simple for an industry that revels in complexity. Fortunately, the folks at…
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You better believe I was bummed by the Digiday article suggesting that the time-based guarantee movement has stalled out. Those who regularly read my opuses know Iβve long been a huge advocate for this style of transaction because time (and really engaged time, which can be used as a proxy…
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