I was honored to head a panel at the Street Fight Summit a few weeks ago, and I’m not finding it too awkward to watch myself on the video now. The topic was a doozy – basically how do you use measurement to justify the value of location-based digital marketing?…
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At its San Francisco summit earlier this year, AppNexus used a slide chock full of poker chips to announce the technology platform was going "all in" on mobile. A gambling reference was an interesting choice – in the hazy world of mobile monetization is programmatic (namely RTB-driven) trading a good…
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We kick off today's OPS by celebrating five years of Rob Beeler as AdMonsters' content czar and chief emcee. Here's to five more, buddy!But onto the meat – Derek Metz of Acceleration details early results from our Publisher Maturity Index survey – it's not too late to add your insight…
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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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Aw damn – even AdMonsters is embracing the listicle. But we've got a good excuse: Advertising Week celebrates its 10th anniversary of unleashing the marketing hordes on the Big Apple. The official guide to Ad Week is 263 pages long (warning: it's full of ads) and the mobile app is…
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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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“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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“No transparency!” must be the most common complaint around the RTB space. Buyers feel short-shifted in terms their ability to get insight into the inventory they’re purchasing while publishers are concerned with the advertisers grabbing their stock for cheap and the quality of the creative coming through the pipes. Oh,…
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