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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Armando Turco left the creative agency world to head up Vox's branded content studio last year. By his perspective, the publisher side is where the action is with branded initiatives. Catch him talking about this in a panel at Ops on June 5, but first, read what he has to…
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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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AdMonsters May 3, 2018 Clearing the Way for In-App Transparency To deliver on the potential of automated buying and selling in the in-app space, advertisers, publishers and our industry as a whole are doubling down on transparency initiatives that make it harder for issues like fraud to take root…
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To deliver on the potential of automated buying and selling in the in-app space, advertisers, publishers and our industry as a whole are doubling down on transparency initiatives that make it harder for issues like fraud to take root and restore the faith in the good actors. Here’s a look…
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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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AdMonsters <span sf="" regular",="" "segoe="" system="" ui="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 14px;="" letter-spacing:="" -0.2px;="" white-space:="" pre-wrap;="" background-color:="" rgb(22,="" 134,="" 217);"="">Sorry for the technical difficulty earlier—even ad tech people can have a technology fail! Back to regularly scheduled programming. -Gavin April 26, 2018 Death of the Middleman: How Blockchain Enables Decentralized Ad Selling…
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We caught up with Kind Ads advisor Neil Patel—cofounder of well-known brands Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics—to find out the thinking behind a decentralized ad network, as well as just how it leverages blockchain to cut out intermediaries, offer enhanced data security for pubs and advertisers, and deliver non-irritating ads.
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The Honest Ads Act was introduced to Congress in October 2017 and hasn't been passed as of March 2018. But the call for Facebook to be more transparent about who's paying for political ads on its network brings it back into the spotlight. Here's what the act proposes, and what…
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