Value obviously can move the needle in any marketplace, but what really makes waves is the perception of value. That's been happening in header bidding. More and more companies have been trying to get into the header, offering their own integrations and their own idividual "twist" that would set them…
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“We look at the inbox as probably the most intimate place you can be on the web,” says Kerel Cooper, VP of Platform Development for LiveIntent. “When you’re looking at a piece of content in your inbox, there’s no other place where you’re more engaged.” He makes a good point…
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It’s been a good year for time-based transactions. This summer, The Guardian announced it had joined the time-based fray while Sled introduced a time-based transaction platform for mobile called Parsec, which uses a cost-per-second metric. Even AdMonsters has secured Financial Times’ Head of Campaign Management US to talk about the…
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You don't have to be following the DMEXCO conference in Cologne, Germany, to have heard the biggest story/scandal. EyeO GmbH – the parent company of everyone's favorite ad blocker, AdBlock Plus (ABP) – decided the event was a prime time to announce the launch of its new exchange for replacing…
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Read the latest developments in impression counting—the "begin-to-render" movement—here. (1/5/2017)Chatter about discrepancies can always be made out during a Publisher Forum, but for latest gathering in Austin this August, the talk was louder and more anxious. With good reason, though – some demand-side ad servers are reportedly counting when ads actually…
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Header integrations have made publishers think anew about what role the traditional ad server will have, going forward--if there’ll even be a role for it to play at all. Whatever happens, it seems the dynamic of the ad marketplace is pushing for a substantial change. (Gavin Dunaway published an article…
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AdMonsters Tech Forum, October 18, 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm PSTThe Tech Forum is a half-day deep dive into publisher ad operations tactics and technology. Part training and part conference, the AdMonsters Tech Forum will feature ad ops experts leading interactive discussions that traffickers and managers face on a daily…
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Registration is now closed. (09-2016 11:30AM)Beyond Audience: Next-Generation TargetingJoin us at LiveIntent's offices to network and discuss the new ways in which data is being leveraged to deliver smarter, more personalized advertising.
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As with programmatic display, the earliest inroads into programmatic video were set up to give the buyer the right of way in certain key matters. Private exchanges initially left valuable inventory ripe for cherry-picking by buyers, and prone to devalue greatly if passed back. Meanwhile, video content that by rights…
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“Is header bidding a hack?” This question invariably gets asked in every panel or interview revolving around header bidding. “Hack” is a term dripping with bile and contempt – it symbolizes a ragged workaround versus some mythical notion of organic development. But such development rarely occurs in the digital advertising…
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