The forecast for publishers sometimes looks grim—what with cookies disappearing, privacy regulations mounting and fear of header bidding and yield optimization going away—but Publisher Forum Scottsdale was where they got their gear to weather the storm. From keynotes to small group sessions to workshops, ad ops, rev ops and data…
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Digital advertisers may be thinking that the best thing to do is to avoid the terms “Trump” and "Brexit" at all costs, but doing so could mean your ads miss out on an awful lot of potentially lucrative revenue. So how do you avoid anything to do with Trump when…
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With vague regulations popping up that seem impossibly to comply with as browsers commit to a crackdown on third-party cookies, you're probably wondering what's in store for audience-based ad targeting. Then you notice your old friend Peer39 was just spun out of Sizmek and a voice in the back of your…
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Choose audience. Choose content. But wait—it's 2018, do media buyers really only get to pick one or the other? No, they shouldn't have to, writes Michael Hans. However, quality issues both in data and content have been holding us back from reaching the true potential of programmatic advertising; the time…
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One of the great projects of digital media this decade has been streamlining and simplifying ad placements. We have the technology -- publishers can study where on the page they can get the most engagement, then figure out how to place an ad unit there, to grab the user at…
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Digital advertising pros who are also Spaghetti Western fans thoroughly enjoyed Grapeshot Chief Executive John Snyder's wonderfully titled OPS Markets session on Thursday, Feb. 9: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Digital Advertising." While we're still trying to talk Snyder into wearing a poncho and chewing a cigarillo during…
Read MoreProximic recently named Rodney Mayers as their Senior Vice President, Business Development. Previously Mayers was the COO of Adify. In the press release Mayers said, "Proximic has developed some of the most compelling technology I have seen in the online advertising space in a very long time." We asked Mayers…
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We’re all familiar with content tagging; it’s a way to categorize content based on the topics it relates to. For example, this post uses tags such as semantic web, content, content tagging, metadata, ontology, semantic tagging. Using tags in this basic way helps optimize your site for search engines and…
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