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  • Time Out Digital Reinvents Itself Using TripAdvisor As A Model

    As print publishers figure out how to remake themselves for digital, Time Out has come up with an unusual solution: Borrow the revenue model – and former CMO and president – of TripAdvisor. Time Out once recommended events, hotels and restaurants to readers, but it no longer stops there. Now the publisher allows readers to […]

  • The Real Power Of Publisher Data

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chip Schenck, vice president of data and programmatic solutions at Meredith Corp. As marketers and publishers push to leverage first-party data sets to inform target audiences and campaigns, a new normal is emerging: blended […]

  • With GDPR Just Seven Months Away, It’s Time For Publishers To Look Under The Sofa

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matthew Smith, managing director at IDG Connect International. Got data? It’s time to pay closer attention to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because it’s almost certainly going to affect your business and how you […]

  • We Need A Collective Push To End Site Spoofing

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jana Meron, vice president of programmatic and data strategy at Business Insider. Jana will present “Insider View From The Publisher” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference Oct. 25-26. Ad fraud is a much-discussed headache for […]

  • To Fight The Duopoly, CBS Interactive’s Programmatic Head Urges Publishers To Band Together

    Programmatic is suffering from a crisis in confidence from marketers. And that crisis affects premium publishers like CBS Interactive. But there are solutions on the horizon, according to Jason White, SVP and GM of global programmatic revenue at CBS Interactive. Header bidding, for example, will boost transparency in the marketplace and even the playing field […]

  • Walled Gardens Pave The Way For Server-Side Measurement

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Chris will present “Server-Side Attribution” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25-26. The growing power of walled gardens isn’t all bad for the rest of the media world. Facebook, […]

  • The Graduation Of Prebid

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Danny Khatib, co-founder and CEO at Granite Media. Something important just happened in the header bidding world that you may have missed. AppNexus and Rubicon recently announced the formation of Prebid.org, an independent organization […]

  • With Video, Publishers Have A Chance To Avoid The Mistakes Made In Display

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, co-founder and chief product officer at STAQ. Facebook recently announced a change in its video-sharing metrics that favors the original creator over distributors or “reshare” pages. Facebook is finally working to help media companies […]

  • Demand-Path Optimization: The Flip Side Of Supply-Path Optimization

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Requidan, vice president of programmatic strategy at Intermarkets. As marketers and agencies become more selective about inventory and demanding of transparency, publishers need to respond in a way that makes sense not just […]

  • Mobile App Bidding And The Next Horizon Of The Waterfall

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Casie Attardi Jordan, director of professional services at MoPub, a Twitter company. Casie will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26. While adoption of header bidding has gained traction on desktop, the static […]

  • Identifying The True Value Of Identity

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Drew Bradstock, senior vice president of product at Index Exchange. People-based marketing, in which publisher and advertiser first-party data is employed to target users across devices, is hotly debated as the new standard for […]

  • After Avoiding It For Years, BuzzFeed Finally Plots A Programmatic Road Map

    The publication that shunned banner ads reversed course last week when BuzzFeed added programmatic ads. The decision came down to two factors: increased advertiser demand for programmatic and a better user experience, said Ken Blom, BuzzFeed’s VP of branded distribution, who leads the 30-person team that will handle the programmatic logistics. “We don’t want to […]

  • Intermarkets Prizes Programmatic Connections Alongside Direct Conversations

    When it comes to anything new in the programmatic space, Intermarkets tends to be an early adopter. Header bidding? Check. Server-side header bidding? Check. Programmatic native? Check. Erik Requidan, VP of sales and programmatic strategy at Intermarkets, which represents right-leaning political publishers such as the Drudge Report, aims to balance all that new tech with […]

  • Supply-Path Optimization: The Buy Side’s Answer To Header Bidding

    “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. Supply-path optimization (SPO), or, as I like to call it, supply pathing, might not sound like the sexiest topic, but is suddenly the […]

  • A Silver Lining In The Looming End Of DoubleClick Sales Manager

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Denis McFarlane, chief executive officer at Infinitive. Google’s recently announced deprecation of DoubleClick Sales Manager (DSM) has caused some consternation in the publishing and mar tech worlds. After July 31, 2019, DSM users will no […]

  • The Ad Tech Do-Over: What Will You Do Differently With In-App Header Bidding?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by David Jakubowski, director of publisher solutions at Facebook. The benefits of header bidding on the web are well documented: Publishers receive an average increase of 15% to 30% – even as high as 50% […]

  • Getting To The Holy Grail: How Publishers Measure The Incremental Value Of Ad Tech Partners

    If a new ad tech partner generates $50,000 in revenue for a publisher, is it safe to assume that gross revenue will increase by the same amount? Publishers that unify their analytics and rigorously test those partners increasingly are finding that the answer is no. “There is no such thing as purely incremental revenue,” said […]

  • 2>3: Why Second-Party Data Is More Valuable Than Third-Party But Activated Less Today

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ameet Shah, senior director of global technology, publisher and data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. Marketers and publishers want access to more quality data to scale beyond their respective first-party data, yet they often overlook […]

  • Why Do Publishers Still Have Fragmented Sales Teams?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Bruno Rebouças, chief executive officer at ProgMedia. Today’s media-buying trends show that programmatic deals will keep growing aggressively compared to direct buys. Some key advertisers have already reached a point where all of their […]

  • Publishers’ Alliances: Damage Control Or Potential For A Brighter Future?

    “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, global product and strategy lead, audience activation at GfK. In the last two or three years, it’s become increasingly common for publishers to unite to share audience data and extend the […]

  • Condé Nast’s Programmatic Play: A Trifecta Of Brand Safety, Scale And Data

    Condé Nast’s Evan Adlman will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25-26 on a panel titled “Data Accuracy And The DMP.” Until recently, buyers who wanted to access Condé Nast’s ad inventory programmatically struggled to find enough impressions to buy. “The perception when I joined was that there wasn’t much scale there, and it […]

  • The Publisher’s New Role In Advertising

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jarrod Dicker, vice president of commercial product and innovation at The Washington Post. When balancing both proactive and reactive strategies, it’s a continuous battle for publishers to decide when to push and when to […]

  • How The Cloud Will Disrupt The Ad Tech Stack

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Danny Khatib, co-founder and CEO at Granite Media. One of the most powerful aspects of the cloud platform is the innovation created by the unbundling of component services. There is a full menu of […]

  • As Data Proliferates, Publishers Grapple With Understanding Its Value

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Martellotti, co-founder at Wholetone Media. Today, data is more of a language than a product. What has challenged many businesses is their ability to translate the new mountains of data they’ve collected internally […]

  • Match Media Group’s Ad Biz Takes User Experience Into Account

    Match Media Group runs an ad business for a dating subscription company. Because ad business revenue accounts for only a small piece of the pie, the ad team always considers the effects of its ads on the user experience. “A fairly good parallel is Amazon,” said Peter Foster, GM of global advertising and brand solutions. […]

  • How Emerging Sales Channels Complicate Account And Campaign Management

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by David Hills, managing director of strategy at The 614 Group. There’s no place where complexity and the need to innovate is starker than at the intersection of campaign and account management. As publishers increasingly […]

  • Ads.txt: A Web 1.0 Solution To A Web 3.0 Problem

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. A certified letter might make its way through a number of post offices as it travels from Point A to Point B, but neither the sender […]

  • Battle Scars From The Viewability Front Lines

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Aryeh Lebeau, executive vice president of client operations at Remedy Health Media. A wise man once mused: “If an ad loads on a web page but no human sees it, does it count as an impression?” […]

  • New York Media’s CRO Bets On Local Mag’s Broader Digital Play

    When New York Media charted its digital strategy, it chose not to go local. Instead, the publisher of New York magazine created standalone blogging brands with national distribution around fashion (The Cut), culture (Vulture) and food (Grub Street). And it’s since added tech (Select All) and science (The Science Of Us) to the list of […]

  • The Failure Of Innovation In Ad Tech

    “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. In our industry – one of the most digitally advanced, according to McKinsey Global Institute – you would expect massive innovation. However, you’d be disappointed. Venture capital investment has indeed poured […]

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