"The stakes have never been higher," Nucleus President and CEO Seth Rogin says of this moment in the fight to preserve real journalism. But he's confident in advertisers' willingness to invest in quality content in quality environments. Before he speaks at Ops, we asked him to share his thoughts.
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AdMonsters May 17, 2018 Don't Scapegoat Publishers for GDPR's Opacity The deadline for GDPR compliance is looming, and the trades continue to chide publishers for not being prepared enough. But considering the interpretation of the regulation has continually changed—and now Google has limited the number of ad tech vendors…
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The deadline for GDPR compliance is looming, and the trades continue to chide publishers for not being prepared enough. But considering the interpretation of the regulation has continually changed—and now Google has limited the number of ad tech vendors pubs can list in its consent management tool—Brian LaRue asks: How…
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AdMonsters May 10, 2018 Vox Media Beats the 'Branded' Buzz Armando Turco left the creative agency world to head up Vox Media's branded content studio last year. From his perspective, the publisher side is where the action is with branded initiatives. Catch him talking about this in a panel…
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In the latest installment of his Inside the Buy Side column, Gabe Greenberg lets us know what the heck agencies are thinking. Here, he speaks to Erica Schmidt, newly-tapped Global CEO of Cadreon, about the future of audience-based buying, the state of analytics at the agency level, and how the…
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The other day I published an interview with Kind Ads adviser Neil Patel on the workings of a decentralized ad network leveraging a blockchain. When I tried to boost my Facebook post of the story, the platform denied me, stating that it does not run ads related to cryptocurrencies. I pleaded…
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As broadband connectivity and processor speeds have rapidly accelerated, consumer behavior online has gradually shifted from reading to viewing hours and hours of video. Call it the “TV-ification” of the web—the internet has become a video-centric experience. The “Show Me, Don’t Tell Me” revolution in consumer behavior online is fully…
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“Digital Darwinism” aims to launch larger philosophical conversations about how technology is changing a variety of businesses from top to bottom. How does one adapt in the digital age—slowly in small increments or rapidly and dramatically? Gavin Dunaway catches up with Ops 2018 keynote Tom Goodwin to discuss the concepts…
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