At some point in the history of the Internet, someone placed code on their website that called an external third party to help it deliver content or provide functionality for that website. A digital miracle? Well, perhaps that’s taking it too far, but still imagine for a second how liberating…
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Taking place September 26 during Advertising Week in New York, OPS is the gathering place for ad operations and media technology leaders challenged with navigating the latest shifts in our industry and responding to stay competitive and profitable.OPS is the best place during Advertising Week to connect with other online…
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I’d like to say it’s feeling like fall in New York, but no, heat and humidity still assail us in early September, turning the Big Apple into a concrete sweat lodge. Hopefully the weather changes course before Sept. 26, with crisp autumn weather signaling the arrival of AdMonsters’ flagship one-day…
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Digital Media Leadership Award honorees Bill Murray, The Weather Company, and Ali Mirian, Chiefgood, are flanked by AdMonsters Founder and CEO Bowen Dwelle (left) and VP, Content and Media Rob Beeler at Publisher Forum XXX in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo: Donna Alberico) Honoring Digital Media Leadership Award Winners in Boulder, ColoradoAdMonsters announced two…
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Wouldn’t it be amazing if our phones could see the world in the same way we do,” commented Matt Mills, former Head of Innovation and Global Sales at augmented reality platform Aurasma, during a 2012 TED Talk. Lucky for us, with today’s advancements in mobile technology, the what-ifs of connecting…
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“We spend most of our time telling privacy advocates and even our clients what we don’t collect," comments James Lamberti, Vice President and General Manager of AdTruth. “If you read our contract, there’s a list of 20 things we don’t collect: IFA, cookies, UDID, MAC address, etc. We purposefully stay…
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UDID was a problem. First off, the 40-digit alphanumeric codes giving unique identifiers to Apple mobile devices based on hardware details had no consumer opt-out functionality – no blocking, removing, what have you. Second, the read-only identifier was static – even if a phone exchanged owners, the UDID was imprinted…
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Did you miss Monday's webcast? Not to worry, you can watch a recording of the webinar online right now. Traffic spikes. Mobile impressions. New revenue streams. Tech complexity. Amidst a sea of constantly fluctuating and evolving factors, scale is always on the minds of Ad Operations leaders, yet the path…
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“TV is an immovable object, mobile is an unstoppable force,” suggested Rob Beeler, Content Czar.A strong opening is essential to a great event, and the content team was having trouble wrapping the myriad topics within the OPS TV/OPS Mobile agenda (Thursday, July 18 at Chelsea Piers in NYC) into a…
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Malvertising, defined as the use of online advertising to spread malicious software (aka “malware”), is a damaging occurrence in online advertising. A malicious advertisement is one that is able to infect a user’s computer with malware. Malvertising tends to be rare in frequency, but its consequences can be destructive; publishers…
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