All advertisers want to deliver the right message to the right audience. Agencies are looking for new and better targeting options and publishers who are creative can win their business. At eHarmony, we can target online ads based on a combination of over 260 separate demographic, psychographic and interest-based data…
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I went to one of my traffickers to get the scoop on a major campaign that had been canceled. "Yeah," he said, "the cancellation order just came through. No reason given." I started to walk away when he said, "I knew it wasn't going to work anyway." He then went…
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Two documents by Pubmatic came out yesterday that are of interest to Ad Operation teams. The Q4 2008 AdPrice Index is helpful as a gauge for publishers on what returns they should be seeing from their network efforts - outsourced or not. The numbers compared to a year ago just…
Read MoreOn December 11th, the IAB UK and AdMonsters hosted a technical forum on buy-side trading systems. While I was not able to attend myself, all indications are that the event succeeded in bringing together the relevant stakeholders from leading agencies and media owners in the UK. The two groups collaborated…
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When it comes to inventory reports, we don’t go far enough in creating the solutions that fit our needs. As an industry, our mindset is to do the best we can, and live with the cards we are dealt by whatever ad serving solution we utilize. But the truth of…
Read MoreNick Denton, CEO of Gawker Media, has his own take on what online ad spend will look like in 2009 and it's not pretty. It's a compelling argument and gloomier than anything else I've read. But with this bad news, Denton also provides a plan - something most ad spend…
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