“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 co-founder at STAQ. Many publishers work with a wide variety of RTB partners to get as many different demand sources to bid against their inventory as possible. The “waterfall” that many […]
The Atlantic is in a good spot right now. The publisher had record traffic from September through November and it closed out the month with 31.5 million uniques and 75 million page views, according to its Adobe Analytics data. The growth spurt came from a few key changes. A redesign in the spring made mobile […]
“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 year ago, a track off of Taylor Swift’s “1989” album topped the Canadian music charts. That shouldn’t surprise anyone, but what made […]
“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. In just the last few years we’ve seen amazing progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights and more acceptance for the LGBTQ community in society […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Hlavacek, vice president for programmatic at The Weather Company. Talk to some premium digital publishers these days and you will likely get a heavy dose of fear and loathing. You’ll hear how the business […]
AskMen is firmly in the pro-platform camp among publishers. The men’s website, born during the dot-com boom, now looks to platforms, not SEO, as a way to gain audience and increase recognition. The king of those platforms is Facebook, where video posts earn the publisher millions of views. AskMen, which is owned by Ziff Davis, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Laura Buchman, vice president of publisher platform sales at Tremor Video. Premium publishers know that buying impressions through direct buys works, in spite of limited targeting options. An audience that fits a basic demographic […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tony Uphoff, CEO at Business.com. According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, a new technology goes through five stages. The first, the Innovation Trigger, occurs when a disruptive technology is introduced, followed by […]
Have you looked at The Washington Post’s website lately? The storied publication is enjoying a breakout year. In October, it posted 66.9 million unique visitors, according to comScore. That boosted its total audience by 59%, while page views soared 95% year over year, reaching nearly 770 million. Those monthly uniques put the Post ahead of […]
“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. We’ve all been talking about it for years, but now by combining the right technology with the right approach, I believe that the promise of […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Cummings, CEO of Curiosity Media. Do you know what ads are running your website? Which brands? What campaigns? Which creatives? If you are like most publishers, you don’t. And if you use programmatic […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alex Magnin, chief revenue officer and partner at The Thought & Expression Co. Data has become table stakes for publishers wooing large advertisers. That’s how it should be. Data is the fuel that powers […]
Mic CEO Chris Altchek looks at digital publishing and sees opportunity. His goal: to reach every college-educated millennial in the US – all 40 million of them. In the past year, Mic has grown from 9.5 million to 14.5 million uniques, according to comScore. But that growth transpired in the most modern of ways: Mobile […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, vice president of business development at Index Exchange. There is a reason that B2B and enterprise companies, such as IBM, Oracle, Salesforce and HP, are so successful. Just as their customers must […]
“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 Programmatic yield management can easily become a nightmare for publishers. We’ve all tested dozens of demand sources, including ad networks and exchanges, such as DoubleClick […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. This is the Year of Header Bidding. OK, maybe it’s actually the Year of Ad Blocking, but header bidding is the second most talked-about topic in advertising, especially among […]
Last year, Remedy Health Media sites added video-heavy, multimedia content that explored life with chronic or life-threatening diseases. The sights and sounds of the patients evoked emotion in a way that articles couldn’t, which was the goal of these inspirational pieces. But with digital, the delivery method counts. Remedy Health started big, with a short-form […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. When visiting McDonald’s, you could once count on hearing these six words: “Would you like fries with that?” This familiar phrase helped McDonald’s generate immediate high-margin revenue in […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andrew Casale, president and CEO at Index Exchange. The ad-blocking discussion has shifted to the now-standard story that ad tech is responsible for creating bad user experiences on publisher sites, thus causing a huge […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alex Magnin, chief revenue officer and partner at The Thought & Expression Co. Over the past two years, we’ve seen a wide variety of publishers get into the branded content game. Native ad spending […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Peter Spande, chief revenue officer at Business Insider. The hits keep coming. Publishers must contend with so many threats that they all feel existential. The list is long but a handful of very real […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by John Trimble, chief revenue officer at Pandora. Like many events in the ad business, the conversations that happen offstage at Advertising Week can be even more impactful than those that take place in the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Craig Kostelic, head of revenue at Bon Appétit & Epicurious, The Food Innovation Group. Publishers have historically treated their home pages as their waterfront property, with a finite amount of space and availability that […]
“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. Publishers face increasing pressure in a competitive space, marked by gradual price deflation from ad exchanges, stricter viewability standards from advertisers and now the rise […]
Upstart publishing platform The Odyssey is reminiscent of fellow “platishers” like Medium, Thought Catalog and Slant News. Its twist is to cultivate pods of writers who create content for their own communities. By harnessing interest about local events, The Odyssey hopes to attract a millennial audience and the advertisers that want to reach that audience. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alex Magnin, chief revenue officer and partner at The Thought & Expression Co. Ad blocking has all the ingredients for a hot story. There are clear good guys (us publishers, of course) and villains. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andrew Lebowski, head of sales at Epom Ad Server. Digital advertising professionals seem to agree that in-app ads outperform those served on mobile web. Not only do users spend more time in apps than […]
Until a few years ago, Bauer Media sat on the digital advertising sidelines. Since Bauer Media earned most of its revenue from newsstand sales of well-known brands, such as InTouch Weekly, J-14 and Life & Style, it didn’t want to give content away for free online. “The strategy until a few years ago was to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Leardini, vice president of search and advertising at Synacor. As a former NCAA athlete, I still count on coaching lessons and in-game experiences to help me in business situations I face every day. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital. Google recently announced that its popular Chrome browser, at nearly half of the worldwide browser market, will soon “intelligently pause” any Flash content not central to […]
