“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 […]
“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. Publishers, including Refinery29 and BuzzFeed, represent hot digital content brands that have recently decided to opt out of the real-time bidding (RTB) ecosystem. Some, like BuzzFeed, don’t […]
“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. In today’s digital media environment, unprecedented access to a plethora of firmographic and demographic data on audiences has allowed us to revolutionize the concept of the “premium publisher.” By […]
“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. For publishers, it’s obvious that direct sales generate the highest cost per thousand impressions (CPMs). It’s so obvious that we don’t […]
“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 digital ad industry spent much of the past 10 years working on ways to improve its ability to target and isolate audiences online. We now […]
Cox Media Group’s libertarian startup site Rare recently won a showdown with old media. After Steven Tyler released his country music video on “Good Morning America,” where it got some traction, Rare linked to the video and generated 10 times the impressions: It drove 2.5 million page views in 48 hours, with an average time spent […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Stark, senior vice president of product marketing at Grapeshot. In theory, the promise of the programmatic wave sweeping digital advertising is to make buying more fluid. From the perspective of supply-side businesses, however, […]
“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 economics of publishing have pushed media companies toward sensationalism to drive traffic and scale. Journalists are increasingly incentivized to produce stories that drive clicks at […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Todd Anderman, president of sales, marketing and operations at Thrillist. Everyone talks about branded content nowadays, such as custom, sponsored, native and native programmatic (talk about an oxymoron). The IAB even defined one of […]
