The Weather Outside is Frightful, but Sonoma Is So DelightfulAnd we’ll be letting it flow rather than letting it snow! The cold temperatures of Silicon Alley have much of the AdMonsters team huddled against our SAD lamps, dreaming of the greener pastures to come when we head to Sonoma for…
Read More
People work in unique and fascinating ways; and, AdMonsters wants to highlight the creative ways that ad-ops professionals run their businesses and operations. Called "Monster In the Mirror," each week we'll showcase how industry leaders work -- from their favorite organizational tools and technologies to their favorite ad-ops trends. This…
Read More
Startup analyst and former Cheezburger CRO Todd Sawicki will discuss the future of advertising beyond display during his keynote "Revenue Without an Ad Server" at this year's Publisher Forum in Sonoma, Calif. We recently talked to Sawicki about native advertising, the next big digital ad trends, and how he makes…
Read More
“It’s verification all over again!” I smirked on overhearing this statement following an intense discussion on viewability at the Digital Brand Forum in New York City recently. For an ad tech reporter, the verification battles were boon times – there were plenty of digital inches available to sop up the endless…
Read More
“We routinely sell out our site inventory,” a senior ad ops professional tells us. “Our value proposition is our audience, which our advertisers can still reach – just on different properties across the Internet.”Hence why her site launched a new audience extension program right before summer 2012. But this wasn’t…
Read More
It’s a common adage in retail (brick and mortar as well as digital) that the customer doesn’t cease to exist once he/she leaves the store. The same logic applies to digital publishing: when someone exits a media company’s digital property, that user doesn’t vanish into thin air, and neither does…
Read More
We're Making Waves Our Publisher Forum in Sonoma, Calif., is coming together nicely; we've secured a stellar batch of industry leaders for our keynotes and sessions, including, Method, Inc.'s Paul Valerio, Former Cheezburger CRO and startup analyst Todd Sawicki, BuzzFeed's Eric Harris, and MAGNAGLOBAL's Brian Monahan.We've also opened up registration…
Read More
A number of partners I’ve been working with have mentioned casually that they are experimenting with creating a marketplace in their adserver by collapsing the prioritization settings. For a lot of publishers, this is the latest version of the struggle with sales channel conflict that they have been wrestling with…
Read More
AdMonsters Strengthens Global Reach In Serving Digital Strategists AdMonsters Partners with Rising Media to Produce AdMonsters Conferences in UK and Europe SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 23, 2013 - AdMonsters, the global leader in strategic insights on digital media and advertising strategy through its conferences, website, research and consulting services, today…
Read More
MAGNAGLOBAL's Brian Monahan is no stranger to the digital advertising world; in fact, some may even call him one of its pioneers. From laying the groundwork for some of digital advertising's earliest practices and standards to co-founding the San Francisco Bay Area Interactive Group in 2004, Monahan is an original…
Read More