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  • Environment: Whither Goest Thou

    “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, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. It was a long-held belief in media buying circles that environment mattered greatly in the final efficacy of a media plan.  That getting in front of […]

  • The News Of My Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated! -The Banner

    “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, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. There has been much talk lately about the demise of the banner as an effective communications tool. These conversations can be self-centered, pointless, naïve, or all […]

  • What Is The True Value of Big Data In 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, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. Today’s media buyers and sellers are playing on a whole new field, where preying on consumer behavior is the norm and big data is the apparent […]

  • Entering the Post Ad Tech Era

    “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, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. It is inevitable that we will move into a post ad-tech era. Not to say that ad buying technologies will go away, but that they […]

  • The 'Temporary' Problem with Second Price Auctions

    Today’s column is in response to “Second-Guessing the Second-Price Auction Model” and written by Andrew Casale, VP of Strategy, Casale Media. I am not an advocate of dynamic floors. Nor do I think switching RTB to first price auctions is likely to happen. Every auction that publishers have run on our platform, to date, has […]

  • Response: Will We Really Grow Display By Incentivizing Low Bidding?

    Today’s column is in response to “Second-Guessing the Second-Price Auction Model” and written by Jonathan Wolf, Chief Buying Officer at Criteo, a buy-side, display ad tech company. Esco Strong at Microsoft wrote an interesting piece in a personal capacity on this site this week. While I am and remain a fan of Esco, and his […]

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  • Moving to "Viewable Impressions" Isn’t The Answer

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tom Shields, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Yieldex, an analytics tools provider for sell-side, yield optimization. I am biased, I’ll admit it.  I wrote the first technical impression counting standards for the IAB in 1998.  And I […]

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  • Don't Dump Inventory In An Exchange, Leverage It First

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Al Silverstein is CEO of AudienceFuel, a publisher-to-publisher, house inventory trading platform. Everyone knows that online publishers rely on ad sales to turn a profit, but very few understand how difficult it is to actually manage […]

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  • The Future is Happening: Real-Time Ad Buying

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Frank Addante is founder and CEO of The Rubicon Project, a digital advertising infrastructure company. The hot topic in digital advertising today is real-time ad buying. Even for a fast-evolving industry, it felt like real-time ad […]

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  • Private Exchanges from a Premium Publisher Perspective - What Does It All Mean?

    “The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is the second of a two-part series and written by Esco Strong, Director, Exchange Marketplace Management at Microsoft. You can read Part I here. In the first part of this series, I highlighted the common industry definitions of “Private […]

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