It’s been a slow process getting the video ad industry to update from VAST 2.0 to VAST 4.0. But now that the IAB has introduced VAST 4.1, which includes major improvements over VAST 4.0, there’s a big push to get everyone to adopt, as I learned at IAB Tech Lab’s…
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AdMonsters December 14, 2018 5 Ways Vast 4.1 Is Way Better Than Every Other Version of VAST It’s been a slow process getting the video ad industry to update from VAST 2.0 to VAST 4.0. But now that the IAB has introduced VAST 4.1, which includes major improvements over…
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In the ad ops industry (aka “online ad operations," “online advertising operations," “ad operations,” “online ad ops," and “ops” in the trade)—things keep changing all the time. There’s a new regulation here, some new tech to learn about there and then a bunch of rejiggering the pipes to keep apace.…
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AdMonsters December 7, 2018 Is Storytizing the Future Of Advertising? It’s no surprise, the media landscape has changed dramatically the past few years—and continues to change nearly every day. The way marketing looks at paid, earned, shared, and owned is flipping. Because of this “The five Rs are becoming…
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It’s no surprise, the media landscape has changed dramatically the past few years—and continues to change nearly every day. The way marketing looks at paid, earned, shared, and owned is flipping. Because of this “The five Rs are becoming complementary to the three Ps,” says Bob Pearson, Senior Advisor at…
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More than ever, audience segmentation is a viable path to increasing revenue for publishers, especially publishers who can effectively leverage first-party data both on-site and off-site. That was an essential piece of Madhura Sengupta’s —former Director of Ad Product Technology at Edmunds.com—talk, “Mastering the Sell Side and Buying Side of…
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For digital media and advertising 2018 has been a really exciting, but often bumpy, roller coaster ride. As far as ad operations is concerned, blockchain, artificial intelligence, location services, and mobile-first everything are offering promising monetization alternatives and other opportunities that bring publishers and brands closer to audiences in more…
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The spread of bad ads is pretty bad in general, but since 2017— throughout the security software industry — cryptojacking has been known as the Evil Overlord (most menacing and most prevalent) of all cyber threats. Hackers looking to get rich quick from mining cryptocurrency illegally are the culprits, and…
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AdMonsters November 29, 2018 What Is Cryptojacking? The spread of bad ads is pretty bad in general, but since 2017— throughout the security software industry — cryptojacking has been known as the Evil Overlord (most menacing and most prevalent) of all cyber threats. Hackers looking to get rich quick…
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