“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christian Baesler, president at Bauer Xcel Media. At a recent conference, David Jakubowski, Facebook’s head of ad technology, called Snapchat a hot product that might turn off advertisers if it doesn’t start offering more […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaclyn Stewart, senior director of publisher services at The 614 Group Most publishers have no trouble defining the roles of their sales or ad trafficking teams. The job titles themselves practically say it all. […]
For most of Imgur’s history, the bootstrapped company sold ads programmatically. And with 150 million unique visitors and 6 billion page views globally, the media company had enough scale to do well, even if CPMs skewed lower than direct. But that approach left money on the table. Imgur’s millennial male, geek culture-focused community is highly […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pete Longo, CEO of US Media at IDG Communications. It’s a data-driven world, and digital ad buyers still rely on the legacy notion that “scale” is necessary to harness as many eyeballs and as much […]
When Google vet Brit Morin created Brit + Co to focus on the millennial DIY set, she didn’t want to rely on the web’s surest, most turnkey form of monetization: banner ads. She thinks banner ads will become extinct. She also believes programmatic will fall by the wayside as advertisers choose branded content, video and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by AJ Okereke, head of revenue technology at Graphiq. Header bidding is a sell-side technology that allows advertisers to use real-time pricing to compete for a given impression within a publisher’s programmatic auction. This influx […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Gatz, CEO and founder at Q.Digital. Dear ad tech community, Medium-sized publishers deliver campaigns that are as complicated as those delivered by larger networks, but we need to do so with a much […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Hadrien Bouchrara, solution architect, Facebook Audience Network. Native advertising isn’t just the wave of the future – native is creating real business value for marketers all over the world at this moment. But many […]
Once, E.W. Scripps was a newspaper company. Now it’s a digital media, broadcast TV, over-the-top (OTT) and podcasting company. Along the way, it shed its newspapers, which are now part of Journal Communications, and its cable channels, spun off in 2008 into Scripps Networks Interactive. It also has been acquisitive. E.W. Scripps expanded into podcasting […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, CEO and founder at STAQ. When I heard about the “cable wars” of the major investment banks in order to minimize latency, I completely understood. They wanted to make their fiber-cable connection […]
“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. Buyers talk about the need for access and transparency. Sellers talk about the power of header bidding technology. While the language may be […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kean Graham, founder and CEO at MonetizeMore. It’s clear that header bidding isn’t Google’s favorite ad tech innovation. The company claims header bidding slows down page speeds and reduces ad viewability because ads take […]
In the land of VC-backed media brands, Thought Catalog wants to be the indie media brand that could. Founded in 2010, The Thought & Expression Co., which includes sites Thought Catalog and Quote Catalog, hasn’t taken on any investment. Just 35 people work out of its Williamsburg, Brooklyn, office, including Alex Magnin, the chief revenue […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jarrod Dicker, head of ad product and technology at The Washington Post. The publishing world now, more than ever, is extraordinarily fast. What used to take seconds for a URL load can now take […]
“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, president and chief operating officer at Livingly Media. Publishers that surfed the recent wave of header bidding for display ads have had a nice ride. That ride will continue, but publishers […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Celia Wu, managing director of publisher services at The 614 Group. It’s Friday at 7 p.m., right before the Memorial Day weekend. Who’s left in the office? Most likely, it’s someone from the ad […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christian Baesler, president at Bauer Xcel Media. Technology has given average consumers a fantastic platform for product research and insight. From consumer reviews to public tweets about terrible customer service, businesses have to be […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Daniel Bornstein, senior vice president of media monetization and operations at Demand Media. While the merits of programmatic direct have been widely discussed, its adoption has been nascent. If we can agree that the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Gabe Bender, product strategy lead at Sharethrough. Although programmatic advertising is approaching critical mass, the industry has failed to standardize auction pricing, and the debate continues over hard-price floors, soft-price floors and everything in […]
Bloomberg Media wants to reach its target audience of affluent businesspeople wherever they happen to be over the course of the day. That might mean mobile and TV in the morning, radio on the way to work, websites during the workday and magazines at night. “Our brand has the ability and importance to connect to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Doug Llewellyn, chief operating officer at Purch. Digital publishers are worried about how publishing platforms meant to speed up mobile load times, such as Google’s AMP, Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple’s News, will impact […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Evan Burns, CEO at Odyssey. Engaging audiences with relevant content hinges on how publishers and platforms harness countless diverse viewpoints globally. This approach is essential in a climate where confidence in the media has […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. With the rapid growth of header bidding, publishers are now employing many supply-side platforms (SSPs) and demand sources in their technology stack. This benefits publishers, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Neil Glass, senior vice president of data at IDG. Today’s socially driven digital culture is all about sharing – some might even say oversharing. And therein lies a fine balance: Where exactly does one […]
Since Time Inc.’s spinoff from Time Warner two years ago, CEO Joe Ripp has been beating the drum of transformation. That push is now starting to bear fruit. The company just reported its strongest quarter yet as an independent company, including digital ad revenue growth of 23%. Part of that success comes from a shift […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Madhura Sengupta, director of ad product technology at Edmunds.com. Audience extension – the practice of expanding a digital advertising campaign beyond a publisher’s owned and operated website into the realm of the wider Internet […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brian Fitzgerald, co-founder and president at Evolve Media. Publishers are about to enter a phase of branded content fatigue from advertisers. In a world where automation is driving programmatic buying and ad units are […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Emry Downinghall, general manager at StudyBreak Media. Most people who are plugged into header bidding agreed that it was only a matter of time before Google made its play, but I don’t think anyone […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Gatz, CEO and founder at Q.Digital. With the launch of Google’s AMP and Facebook and Apple opening Instant Articles and Apple News to all publishers, we’re now in a world of “content everywhere.” […]
To grow its readership, Engadget focused on quality and relevance. The tactic – simple to imagine but hard to execute – has paid off: The AOL-owned site posted 13.6 million unique visitors in January during the Consumer Electronics Show, according to comScore. That’s its highest-traffic month ever and nearly double the number of visitors compared […]
