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  • The Publisher’s Guide To Domain Spoofing

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andrew Casale, vice president of strategy at Index Exchange, by Casale Media. Commonly and with little difficulty, bad actors are defrauding the digital marketplace. They’re playing tricks to make exchanges think they’re selling inventory […]

  • Publishers Need To Stop Looking For Unicorns

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eva Smith, vice president of sales strategy at The Weather Company. A mild panic has come over our industry. Leaders are increasingly concerned that the complexity of sales is increasing at a faster clip than […]

  • Premium Vertical Balancing Act: Blending Direct Deals With Automation

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Daren Trousdell, CEO at OneUp Sports. Some of the most innovative publishers can be found in premium digital media verticals, especially within the sports and entertainment categories. These verticals have historically given brands a platform […]

  • The Human Context Can Unlock The True Value Of Mobile

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Heather Menery, vice president of emerging solutions at PubMatic.  There are many debates today surrounding mobile and display: Are they now one and the same? Should we still have dedicated, separate budgets or simply […]

  • The Secrets Publishers Don’t Tell You About Redesigns

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Neil Vogel, CEO at About.com. 2014 is proving to be the year of the digital redesign. From Fortune to Cosmo, The New Yorker and Quartz, premium publishers are making bets on the best way […]

  • Creative: The Missing Link

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kerel Cooper, vice president of platform development at LiveIntent. He previously spent 15 years working for digital publishers running ad operations and platform-strategy teams.  We’re living through a period of unprecedented focus on optimization, reporting […]

  • Rise Of The Hybrid Advertiser

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brian Mikalis, senior vice president of monetization at Pandora. Looking back about 10 years, marketers either focused on driving brand metrics or worked to achieve immediate direct-response results. The sell side often tried to […]

  • Should Premium Inventory Be Sold In The Open RTB Market?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brian Brownie, director of advertising operations at eBay North America. Programmatic, like many things in life, is an exercise in trial and error for most US publishers. Those with exceptional scale and a high-quality […]

  • Overcoming Vendor Fatigue

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ed Kozek, senior vice president of product and engineering for WeatherFX at The Weather Company. How would you say 25% of your week is spent? If your answer is vendor meetings, you aren’t alone. My […]

  • Eliminate The Word “Remnant” From Your Yield Strategy

    “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. I want to get out ahead of all the year-end stories about resolutions and predictions. If you are in charge of yield for a publisher and […]

  • Vox Media Embraces Programmatic For Its Scaled-Up Audience

    Two years is a long time for online publisher Vox Media. In that span, the owner of seven editorial sites – including The Verge, SB Nation, Eater and Polygon – went from eschewing programmatic to embracing it. Vox’s strategy changed because its sites grew, explained Joe Purzycki, Vox Media’s VP of advertising. Vox totaled 20 […]

  • Dynamic Price Floors Perpetuate An Ad Stack Cold War

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, senior director of business development at Index Exchange, a division of Casale Media Inc. The jig is up. And it’s been up for a long while. It’s time to move past dynamic […]

  • What Does The Future Hold For Automated Guaranteed?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Richard Jalichandra, CEO at iSocket. A recent AdExchanger column concluded that everyone is to blame for lagging automated guaranteed adoption. Buyers, sellers and vendors are not exempt. I agree. All parties bear responsibility for […]

  • Thorns In Our Side: False Promises And Embellishments

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO at Spanfeller Media Group. Without exception, every industry has its fair share of embellishments and untruths. In many ways, we as human beings cannot help ourselves. We simply want everything to […]

  • Choose The Right Kind Of Programmatic Direct For Each Deal

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tom Shields, chief strategy officer at Yieldex. Programmatic direct is the fastest-growing area of digital advertising, with both publishers and advertisers flocking to set up programmatic direct relationships. It works for publishers because it […]

  • Let Your Robots Be Robotic And Your People Be Creative

    “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 of programmatic at The Weather Company. Quick question: What’s the fastest way to kill the enthusiasm and energy of a media sales team? Lost business? Re-orgs? Missed goals? I don’t […]

  • In Defense of The Open Exchange

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sam Cox, vice president of OPEN global media management at MediaMath. Programmatic is changing, and for the most part, it is changing for the better. Inventory that started as remnant now inches towards premium, […]

  • Programmatic Native: What Happens When Two Buzzwords Collide?

    “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. Many publishers see their programmatic and native advertising as two very different ends in their yield spectrum. Whether called the barbell or the see-saw strategy, the […]

  • The Viewable Impression As Currency: Not Ready For Prime Time

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Bennett Zucker, senior vice president of revenue platforms, ad operations and data solutions at Ziff Davis, a j2 Global Inc. company. The most accountable and measurable medium is having another “Whoops, we did it […]

  • Connected TV: What Publishers Need To Know

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Joydeep Gangopadhyay, solutions architecture at LiveRail, a Facebook company. In our cross-screen universe, digital omnivores – also known as cross-platform consumers – love to watch and share videos, using a variety of connected devices […]

  • The One-Size-Fits-All Model Doesn’t Apply To Mobile

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michele Tobin, vice president of global brand partnerships and advertising at Rovio. In the not-so-distant past, there was a “one-size-fits-all” model applied to advertising. Once a brand decided which medium they wanted to advertise […]

  • Why I Joined The Supply Side

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, senior director of business development at Index Exchange, a division of Casale Media Inc. For four years, I oversaw business development for a programmatic buying platform that integrated supply sources and data […]

  • Mobile Location: A Fragile Thing

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Receive The Sell Sider in your inbox twice a week by signing up for the email here, and selecting The Publisher Newsletter.  Today’s column is written by Alex Linde, senior vice president of monetization at The Weather Company. Mobile can sometimes […]

  • How To Build A Programmatic Sales Team

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brian Mikalis, senior vice president of monetization at Pandora. Publishers that sell directly to advertisers and agencies are now faced with how to handle programmatic sales. Traditional RFPs have recently started including questions about […]

  • Can The ANA Save Digital Advertising?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO at Spanfeller Media Group, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) recently joined online fraud-detection firm White Ops for an effort called “The Marketers’ Coalition.” Together they will look into the issues of impression fraud […]

  • Everyone Has A Monetization Platform For Publishers

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Receive The Sell Sider in your inbox twice a week by signing up for the email here, and selecting The Publisher Newsletter.  Today’s column is written by Michael Persaud, director of programmatic advertising at Wenner Media. The publisher-facing ad technology […]

  • Mobile Myths That Drive Publishers Onto The Ledge

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Steve Goldberg, digital practice lead at EmpiricalMedia. Mobile — and making sense of mobile — simply perplexes people. I have numerous even-tempered clients and colleagues who have been driven into a rage when tasked with […]

  • ‘Pipe’ Dreams

    “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. It looks like a good year to be a VC or investment banker. IPOs continue rolling out, and there is also a lot of healthy […]

  • Transparency And Privacy: It’s Time To Clean Up Our Acts

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO at Spanfeller Media Group. No news here, but we have devolved into a short-term focused economy. That is as true in digital as it is elsewhere. There are many examples of where […]

  • What Is ‘Premium’ In Mobile?

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Bob Walczak, general manager of mobile and video at PubMatic. When it comes to publishers, premium is the operative word, a designation that, like VIP access to any major event, opens up a whole new […]

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