Attention metrics are gaining traction, but one fundamental aspect that continues to hold significant value for advertisers is viewability. While advertisers recognize the importance of capturing users' attention, ensuring their ads are viewable remains a top priority. vCPM provides a metric to measure the cost of viewable impressions, helping advertisers…
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Media mix modeling is what most industry professionals call this marketing analytics technique, but market mix modeling is far more descriptive as a term. If we're doing our jobs right, we don't just consider media. We're constantly looking at an entire market—its seasonalities, pricing, promotions, and more. And because we work…
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Breza suggests that advertisers must use different strategies to reach their full target audience while ensuring their ads only appear in suitable environments. And that starts with having a brand-level strategy for brand safety and suitability. The strategy should include a plan for aligning against the Global Alliance for Responsible…
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Companies that can forge a strong connection between the buy- and sell-sides are the ones that stand to win here. They can provide the most effective, efficient path forward for both parties to transact. The more holistic and advanced the offerings that ad tech partners can provide, the more efficient…
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At PubForum+ on December 10, 2020, Happens in Ad Ops co-hosts Erik Requidan, Founder and CEO, Media Tradecraft and Ryan McConaghy, Head of Revenue Operations, The Atlantic, are joined by Amanda Gomez, VP, Revenue Operations, New York Post, and Danny Khatib, Co-founder and CEO, Granite Media to try and get…
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With millions of people worldwide now homebound from Coronavirus and screentime increasing exponentially, for those publishers and advertisers that are willing to gamble on an industry that’s comparatively wet behind the ears, odds are esports is a winning hand. In fact, Twitch reports an increased usage of both gaming and…
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To gain a better understanding of Google's Privacy Sandbox, we spoke with Michael Zacharski, CEO Engine Technology & EMX Digital, who believes that Google's Privacy Sandbox won't drastically hurt digital advertising and its efficiency against other advertising mediums and that this will initiate positive actions that will build a trustworthy…
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They say money follows eyeballs. It was certainly true for mobile advertising. Despite OTT’s surging popularity, ad spend on OTT was only projected to reach $2.6 billion in 2019. Compared to linear TV’s $69.2 billion, what advertisers are willing to spend on OTT might seem disproportionate. But to those in-the-know…
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As the word “Addressable!” echoed from beach to yacht to luxury suite across La Croisette in Cannes, a solidly digital friend asked me, “What does that even mean?” I smirked and replied, “It’s a TV industry term for what digital people consider programmatic TV-buying, and it looks like digital is…
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Parsec Media CEO and Founder Marc Guldimann hinted that Parsec was actually building a new tool that crunched attention data in real time for brand and performance campaign optimization—a sort of white-label version of the company's internal optimization engine. The eagle has landed: Adelaide offers advertisers a dashboard with insights…
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