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  • Counterpoint: In Review, The Business Models And Objectives Are Quite Different

    “Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s counterpoint column is written by Jacob Ross is Senior Director, Advertising Platforms, Demand Media Big news on both eBay and Microsoft today, and Eric Franchi did a great job of surfacing the importance of the news. However, it’s misleading to compare these two […]

  • Representation Vs. Automation

    “Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Eric Franchi, Co-Founder and SVP, Business Development, Undertone. Two interesting and significant pieces of news in the display advertising space came out on Monday morning, January 31st.  Ecommerce giant eBay announced a change in strategy from its current monetization […]

  • Counterpoint: Data and Media Work Well Together - Separately

    “Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Mark Zagorski is CRO, eXelate I applaud John Garber for taking this subject on in his very well written and interesting piece (read it) yesterday.  Although I think many of the concepts are right on, including the nascent nature […]

  • Publishers: The Best Way To Monetize Data Is By Selling Inventory And Becoming Part Of A Co-op

    “Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by John Garber is VP, Business Intelligence, Lotame Solutions, Inc. Much has been said recently about new and as yet unrealized data opportunities for publishers.  Many companies are knocking on the doors of publishers and peddling our DMPs, SSPs, and […]

  • Time To Drive New Metrics-Based Valuation

    “Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Kirby Winfield is President and CRO of Mpire’s AdXpose. On a recent conference dais, Scott Knoll from Aperture shared a deceptively simple insight in regards to the topic of audience buying.  He pointed out that simply buying an audience […]

  • It's Time For Publishers To Develop Strategies Around Their Audiences

    “Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Jeff Hirsch, President and CEO, AudienceScience. A publisher that invests heavily in developing quality, valuable content correspondingly creates two primary assets that advertisers demand.  The one we have grown most familiar with is space, or inventory.  The one that […]

  • One-Size-Fits-All Solutions Not Acceptable for Advertising

    “Networking” is a column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Tyler Moebius, CEO of Adconion, an online advertising network. Traditionally, ad networks have been perceived as enablers, as tools advertisers and agencies can use to increase campaign efficiency, extend their reach and add scale. An agency […]

  • It's Time For The Futures Exchange

    “Networking” is written by members of the online advertising network community. Today’s column is written by Andy Atherton, COO and co-Founder, Brand.net. My former boss, Wenda Harris Millard, had one of the most quotable, and quoted, lines in the online media industry in 2008 when she said, “We must not trade our advertising inventory like […]

  • Reinventing the Wheel (To Run Yourself Over)

    “Networking” is a column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Michael Katz, President, InterCLICK. Ok, I admit I didn’t come up with the phrase and I hate to be the bearer of bad news but (the top 25) networks aren’t going away anytime soon. Recently there […]

  • 2010: Audience-Centric Buying

    “Networking” is a column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer of Undertone Networks. The media landscape continues to evolve as advertisers move away from impression-based demographic buying to audience-centric strategies. This shift recognizes that audiences more accurately reflect potential customers and […]

  • The Myths And Realities of Retargeting

    “Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Richard Frankel, President, of Rocket Fuel, Inc. He says there’s no doubt about it It was the myth of fingerprints I’ve seen them all and man They’re all the same –        Paul Simon, Graceland One […]

  • Paid, Earned and Shared – Getting Rich with Social

    “Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer of Undertone Networks. Historically, media value was determined by a relatively simple calculation: divide campaign cost by the number of persons reached within a specified target segment expressed in thousands. […]

  • Is BT Just A Sales Tool?

    Andy Atherton is COO of Brand.net, an online advertising network. A senior agency executive who manages the digital account for an Ad Age 50 CPG manufacturer recently delivered the best line I have heard in a long time.  We were talking about Behavioral Targeting (BT) and he said, “In my experience BT is a much […]

  • Transparency Versus Control: Which Matters More in Network Buys?

    “Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Alan Schanzer, Chief Strategy Officer of Undertone Networks. Over the last several months there have been numerous reports about fraud impacting all facets of the online advertising industry – publishers, networks, agencies – and ultimately, […]

  • Settling The Network Debate: What Are Publishers Missing?

    “Networking” is a new column focused on the evolving roles of networks in online advertising. Today’s column is written by Andrew Pancer, Chief Operating Officer of Media6Degrees. It’s become a sport to bash ad networks over the past couple years, with panels and articles calling for publishers to “fire your network.” My personal favorite was […]