I’m back in San Francisco for a few days in between the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting (IABALM) and AdMonsters Publisher Forum XIV in Memphis. IABALM is a sea of C-level execs from “all” the top media and technology companies and I ran into a ton of old friends as well…
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Today OpenX announced the release of a new platform, OpenX Enterprise, which is a Software as a Service hosted ad management solution with new capabilities for managing different channels of inventory and product in one tool. Read the release. According to OpenX, this is a departure for the company and…
Read MoreThe type of ad delivery a site uses can have far reaching impacts. Everyone's had a conversation with the Content or IT team that started "Your ads are making the site ...!" This is usually followed by any one of a number of complaints: slow; install malware; totally unusable; leak…
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Recently there was an announcement introducing OpenRTB, which is a consortium made up of both demand and supply side providers. The goal of the consortium is to create less friction in an marketplace that is only becoming more and more complex. Part of that initiative includes proposing a set of…
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As much of the industry knows by now, we were honored to announce our participation in the newly formed OpenRTB Consortium earlier this month. With more and more publishers looking to real-time bidding (RTB) as a key source of demand for their inventory, it’s critical to have the right standards…
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Last Thursday my talk on Bootstrapping Your AdServer provoked hems and haws at the AdMonsters Network Forum (Dec 9th, 2010) in New York City. My intention was to provide a bit of insight to the challenges that publishers encounter on a regular basis; especially those in the midst of a…
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Good ad ops people are always employable. It’s one of the first things we tell our new consultants when they start work with us. If you happen upon an ad ops person who’s looking for a new job, drop everything and make sure you talk to them.With such demand for these…
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Russell Glass, CEO of Bizo will be giving the keynote address at the AdMonsters Network Ops Forum in NYC Dec 9, 2010. In advance of the event we asked him a few questions about ad operations.Q: Please tell us about you, your company and what gets you excited about online…
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John Wanamaker, oft considered the father of modern advertising, is attributed with saying, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half”. Nearly a century later, the technologies and medium used for advertising have changed, but his observation is often still evident.…
Read MoreWe knew when developing the agenda for OPS that we couldn't just have operations people say that ops was sexy. We needed an icon in the industry to help drive that point home and end the day with everyone buzzing about all the great things operations is. We were extremely…
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