I don’t know what to expect when I load the Sonar app on my iPhone and click on the WIRED holiday pop-up store in Times Square, NYC. Lo and behold, numerous names instantly appear, all of them in my general proximity. My Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare accounts are hooked into…
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According to FreeWheel's recently released "Video Monetization Report" for third quarter 2011, short-form video (under 5 minutes) and mid-form video (over five, less than 20) have a primetime interval of 1 p.m. to 4 p.m, while long-form episodic video (over 20) has a primetime that mimics television – 8 p.m.…
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Online publishers have a lot of problems to think about when it comes to ad management. To maximize their revenue, they have several levers to pull including inventory pricing tiers and models as well as sales channels (direct sales vs. ad networks and exchanges). Yet, marketers are buying audience. So…
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OPS Dinner - Strengthen the foundations of online advertising To provide continuity and foster ongoing relationships among our members between our bi-annual conferences, AdMonsters hosts regular Members Dinner events in cities around the U.S. and in Europe. AdMonsters Dinners are informal, fun, social events - a great way for members to…
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Oxford is a city that promises to broaden the mind. My thoughts on what makes a great publishing business were certainly enlightened by Greg Taylor, one of the keynote speakers at the AdMonsters Publisher Forum at Oxford. Greg has his Doctorate in Economics and is a research fellow at the…
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If you got the right stuff, it’s not a bad idea to get a stamp of approval. Multi-channel ad server Smart AdServer just emerged from an intense four-month audit of its systems as the first U.S. certified mobile ad server according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mobile Guidelines. We sat…
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While Google introduced core mobile ad serving capabilities to the DoubleClick for Publishers ad serving suite last summer, the company is just now releasing the real mobile muscle. Launched today (check out the blog post), DFP Mobile offers support for a wide array of mobile rich media ad formats such…
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As a mobile ad network that developed across Asia-Pacific before launching in the U.S. and E.U. in 2010, InMobi boasts a unique perspective on the global mobile revolution and reaching international audiences at scale. Prior to the OPS Mobile event Dec. 7 Mobile OPS event in NYC, AdMonsters caught up…
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Network and socialize with the world's online advertising leaders To provide continuity and foster ongoing relationships among our members between our bi-annual conferences, AdMonsters hosts regular Members Dinner events in cities around the U.S. and in Europe. AdMonsters Dinners are informal, fun, social events - a great way for members…
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The Sunday Times recently ran a story about how ordinary families could make money out of YouTube's new policy of rewarding those who upload popular videos with a share of the revenue optimised against that content. To illustrate the point, the writer hung the story on the success of the…
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