“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. […]
The idea for a radio network specifically geared toward the Black community had been floating around at iHeartMedia for several years. 2020 made its need apparent. When the pandemic took hold early last year, communities of color were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 in terms of infection, hospitalization and mortality rates. Black-owned businesses were hit especially […]
“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, an audience and data strategy consultant. The most serious threat to publishers’ business models is coming from within. I’m talking about email-based universal IDs. In the last couple of years, media […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sara Badler, SVP of advertising and partnerships at Dotdash. Fries or crisps? Elevator or lift? Even among English speakers there are a host of regional differences for the global traveler to wrap their his or […]
Local news publishers aren’t waiting around for ad tech vendors to solve their third-party cookie problems for them. In late March, the Local Media Consortium (LMC) launched NewsPassID, a single sign-on solution and ad network, designed to help the 5,000 local publishers represented by the LMC to aggregate their first-party data and clean up their […]
Publications like Scary Mommy, Fatherly and The Dad speak to the joys and insecurities of being a parent. These brands have created enviable engagement with their community of moms and dads, that span across platforms: email, websites and both old social media sites (Facebook) and new (Twitch). “You can’t ask for a healthier media company,” […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Wenda Zhou, Head of Media Operations, IPONWEB. When programmatic first started, publishers largely viewed it as another channel they could use to offload remnant inventory and squeeze out more revenue. It wasn’t considered a risk […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. What’s one way to combat subscription fatigue? Create a bundle. “Our view is that what Apple has done, what Netflix has done, we want to do in the active lifestyle category,” said Outside CEO Robin Thurston. In February, the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rob Beeler, founder of Beeler.Tech. Publishers, your time is up. What has worked in the past will soon stop working for us. Problems we’ve not attended to will soon bite us in the ass. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. As we look ahead to life after third-party cookies, publishers and advertisers alike are on the hunt for solutions. To date, most of […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ionut Ciobotaru, Chief Product Officer at Verve Group. With the loss of IDFA and the resulting limitations on audience targeting, all signs point to a significant hit for app ad revenues. Developers can expect […]
Programmatic advertising used to be an afterthought for The Associated Press. AP, the largest and oldest newswire service in the US, makes the majority of its revenue through a subscription fee that news organizations pay for to access vetted content. But there’s no reason why an entity founded in 1846 can’t also optimize its supply […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Nicole Lesko, SVP of data, ad products and monetization for Meredith. As a publisher, I am exhausted being cornered by every vendor in a murky supply chain and listening to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Benjamin Blank, chief executive officer of UPROXX. The world of publishing learned how to be nimble in times of turbulence during 2020. While some evolution was expected (particularly in the digital realm), the obvious shakeup […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Kershaw, CTO of Magnite and Chairman of Prebid.org. For the second time in the past 13 months, Google managed to plunge the world of ad tech into complete chaos […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Joe Root, CEO and co-founder of Permutive. Google shook the industry Wednesday when it confirmed that it was removing identifiers (a.k.a. third-party cookies) from its products for good – […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Priti Patel Powell, senior director of business development and strategy at PubMatic. Mention an A/B test and many advertisers immediately think about creative assets. Pitting one design or bit of content against another is […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mike Peralta, Global CRO, Future plc After a difficult 2020, the publishing world is bracing for an uncertain 2021. With ambiguity swirling around the future of the cookie and its potential replacement, many publishers, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mathieu Roche, CEO of ID5. The post-cookie identity debate is often presented as follows: users who authenticate themselves and provide their email address can be identified over time and across sites; all others are […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kerel Cooper, CMO at LiveIntent. Around 2015, publishers who put all their eggs in the basket of being promised rising engagement from videos on Facebook were caught in a precarious position when it turned out […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Amanda Hicks, director of product for The Washington Post’s Research, Experimentation & Development (RED) team. In the ever-evolving struggle to maximize traffic and ad revenue, publishers increasingly favor search traffic to bring audiences to their […]
