“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ben Dixon, CEO at Adslot. The traditional TV ecosystem still attracts immense money in advertising – an estimated $69.2 billion in 2019 – despite the continued proliferation of cord cutters, who shun content that can’t […]
Digital media companies who bet on social distribution and video have fallen on hard times, but Group Nine Media is angling to be the exception. Group Nine, whose brands include Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis and Seeker, has developed a holding company model designed to reduce costs by sharing backend resources – while still efficiently reaching […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Lehman, SVP, global marketplace development at TripleLift. Over-the-top (OTT) advertising has captured the industry’s hearts and minds over the past year and is widely considered to be one of its most compelling new […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written Dan Fennell, vice president of publisher development at GumGum. The ability to refresh ads on publisher pages has been around for some time. In 2016, Google created an ad refreshing standard within its ad exchange. […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Swanson, CEO at Aki Technologies. Apple’s move into streaming TV is a significant milestone in the already-in-progress, cord-cutting revolution. It should serve as an important nudge for marketers: Yes, it’s time to get […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sara Badler, senior vice president of programmatic revenue and strategy at Dotdash. While programmatic buying strategies and buzzwords du jour change, one fact remains constant: Every impression counts. The buyer emphasis on achieving the best […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jean-François Bernard, co-founder and chief product officer at Adomik. Google’s move to a first-price auction will change the dynamics of the publisher stack and redistribute revenue for publishers across all the channels they use. […]
Brands are being tough on platforms, pulling advertising dollars after brand safety fiascoes and thinking critically about appearing adjacent to unpredictable content that can expose them to brand-safety risks. Yet Reddit, which languished with minimal advertising for years in part due to those brand-safety concerns, is thriving. Revenue grew by a factor of three in […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Unilever recently announced “Unilever Trusted Publishers,” a network of global, regional and local publishers and platforms with whom it will build a media environment with […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. Over the last few years, there has been a steady trend toward complexity on the sell side. The growth of programmatic unleashed an explosion of innovation, with new vendors emerging to solve […]
Healthline Media embarked on the road to recovery by taking a content-focused approach to health information. The profitable company racked up more than $100 million in revenue last year. With audience growth rates topping 60% year over year, Healthline is on the cusp of eclipsing slow-growing WebMD as the web’s top health property. The ascension […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Weaver, senior vice president of business growth and development at Al Jazeera Media Network. Innovation and disruption are lauded virtues in technology, but they present hard realities in the media business. Today’s publishers […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Harry Kargman, founder and CEO at Kargo. Google announced last month that it would switch to a first-price auction in Google Ad Manager by the end of 2019. The move brings Google into parity […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. There have been an increasing number of recent rumors that Google Chrome might block third-party cookies, or at least limit them to some degree, which would fundamentally change the programmatic ecosystem. […]
BuzzFeed is in the midst of a transformation from a fast-growing startup to a sustainable digital media company, with Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown leading the charge. Over the past two years, BuzzFeed’s expanded into every revenue opportunity it can, including programmatic, affiliate and brand licensing. In programmatic, for example, BuzzFeed started with a basic […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rotem Shaul, CEO at Primis. Programmatic advertising has grown by hundreds of percentage points, and as the industry has matured, market consolidation has commenced. Many vendors are too small and cannot compete with the […]
The power of the brands owned by Meredith – including Better Homes & Gardens, People, Food & Wine, Family Circle – first attracted Catherine Levene to join the publisher as chief strategy officer in January. “I’m a big believer in trusted brands, and this company has a huge portfolio of trusted brands. The opportunity is […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ian Trider, director of RTB platform operations at Centro. There is a widespread practice in this industry which puts advertisers at risk: resellers acquiring inventory from other resellers. With such an overly complex supply […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Dillon Roulet, founder and managing partner at Duplici. The effects of a matured ecosystem are clear: Open marketplace media buys are much more secure and transparent than they were in the early days. We’re […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. The digital advertising industry needs, more than ever, privacy advocates and activists – some strong, external pressure and entities holding it to account. New evidence […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Bender, global head of publisher strategy and business development at Prohaska Consulting. We have all read the stats that private marketplace (PMP) transactions continue to outpace overall programmatic spending. Sixty-one percent of publishers in an eMarketer […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Two years ago, I looked in my crystal ball and envisioned a future where all media would run programmatically. Today, we have all […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kendell Timmers, vice president of advertising data at The New York Times. I recently looked myself up on BlueKai’s registry tool to see what audiences I belong to within their third-party data sets. While […]
Last June, Well+Good was acquired for $10 million by Leaf Group, which will pay another $9 million if it hits performance targets through 2020. Bootstrapped, profitable and diversified, in terms of its revenue streams, the wellness publisher avoided the pitfalls of raising too much money, going all-in on Facebook or relying on only one source […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Radmir Nasyrov, CEO at Roxot. I believe Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), ITP 2.0, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and similar privacy initiatives will change programmatic advertising as we know it today. In a cookie-less […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Justin Choi, founder and CEO at Nativo. The age of the platform has, without a doubt, taken a serious toll on publishers. Direct content consumption on publisher sites gave way to content discovery via […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Phil Bohn, senior vice president of sales and revenue for Mediavine. Flooring is one of publishers’ most important yet least-discussed programmatic revenue strategies. Open auctions fill a large amount of ad inventory for almost […]
Blavity CEO Morgan DeBaun saw a gap in the media market: a lack of content for black millennials like herself. In 2014, she left her tech job to launch Blavity. “We needed a place, a platform and a media brand that could speak to our stories as part of the young, black creative culture,” DeBaun […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Offer Yehudai, president at Fyber. 2018 has seen a spate of ad networks purchasing supply chain companies. For instance, Criteo acquired Managed, AppLovin bought MAX and Tapjoy joined forces with Tapdaq. At first glance, these acquisitions can be […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alysia Borsa, chief marketing and data officer at Meredith Corp. As the industry clamors for more transparency in the supply chain, publishers should take the lead. Publishers are sitting on high-quality, proprietary data sets. Their […]
