The Sell Sider

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Mike Chowla, Sr. Director of Product Management at PubMatic and video chair for Prebid. The retirement of VPAID has been announced several times, including in 2017 and 2019. However, as of May 2021, VPAID is still widely used.  If VPAID could talk, it would surely use the Mark Twain quip, “The report […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Thanks to COVID, the old benchmarks no longer apply. Take grocery shopping, said Klarn DePalma, EVP of MNI Targeted Media, a division of Meredith Corporation that helps brands develop and activate digital media strategies. “Online shopping has fundamentally changed the […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tanya Lee, GM EMEA, Vungle. Change provides opportunity for those who are able to adjust quickly and effectively. Apple’s change to the IDFA in iOS 14 will allow many app publishers to thrive in ways that they […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rich Calkins, Director of Product Management for OpenX.  Publishers are right to be worried about the impact that third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome will have on their programmatic revenue. In 2019, Google ran a study […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeffrey Turner, director of digital ad operations at The Washington Post. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are among the highest grossing companies in digital media, earning billions as users scroll through an endless feed of content. […]

Today’s column is written by Maor Sadra, CEO and co-founder of INCRMNTAL. After this exclusive look for subscribers, the story will be published in full on AdExchanger.com tomorrow. Facebook CFO David Wehner has noted on multiple company earnings calls that investors should expect a revenue dip related to ad targeting headwinds, aka, Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency. But what […]

“The Sell Sider” is written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Like an oil corporation opposing the rise of renewables or a tobacco company lobbying for its own cause, a reactionary wing of digital advertising is struggling to accept the […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Aly Nurmohamed, General Manager at Permutive. With every Google, Apple and Firefox announcement, the status quo of the open web is rocked. The ecosystem of advertisers, ad tech companies and publishers falls out of balance. With […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jonathan Gill, CEO and founder of Backtracks.  Clubhouse entered the year with a bang. Whether it goes out with a mic drop, crackle of static or becomes the next defining social network, its staying power […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Stocki, the data practice lead at Prohaska Consulting. When consumer data goes into a walled garden, it never comes out. Ad dollars go in, but the true measurement of the results never come out. […]