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  • It’s Time Programmatic Moves From Budget Channel To Media Conduit

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Two years ago, I saw the future of programmatic not as a budget channel, but rather a conduit through which all media changed […]

  • The Performance Imperative

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Marketers love innovation. They love breakthrough design and taking creative risks. They love emerging channels and experimental formats. CFOs do not. CFOs love efficient deployment of capital. They […]

  • The True Cost Of Recommendation Widgets

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Avery, CEO at Adzerk. Recommendation widgets – those spammy “Around the Web” ads – may provide short-term revenue, but they likely come at the expense of long-term company growth and brand power. I won’t […]

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  • Header Bidding And The Future Of The SSP

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. Many supply-side platforms (SSPs) herald header bidding as a liberating force, democratizing access to the publisher ad server and opening hitherto inaccessible inventory. Yet this myopic view – that […]

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  • Is Search A Publisher’s Best Friend Again?

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christian Baesler, president at Bauer Xcel Media. Time Inc., Thrillist and other publishers recently announced important hires for a hot growth strategy they’re betting on: search engine optimization. Is this 2006 or 2016? It […]

  • Hearst Wants To Narrow The Tech Gap Between Buyers And Sellers

    Hearst’s media encompasses magazines, broadcast networks and newspapers, but tapping into its massive scale means logging deals into 17 separate systems or setting up multiple deal IDs. Over the past year, Hearst’s Core Audience division has brought its properties onto the same ad server, exchange and data management platform. Hearst also built its own viewability […]

  • Publishers Beware When Wading Into Ecommerce Waters

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Greg Mason, CEO at Purch. The New York Times made its own headlines when it recently acquired Wirecutter, the five-year-old online product review site, for an estimated $30 million. For one of the world’s […]

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  • Data Can Help Publishers Strike Back

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Paul Cimino, global head of data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. Not so long ago, publishers produced and distributed content to attract and monetize their audiences. Since content was relatively scarce, brands paid high CPMs […]

  • The Future Of The Header Goes Beyond Bidding

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, vice president of business development at Index Exchange. Header bidding is the rare ad tech phenomenon where the noise is equal to the fury. Its staggering growth and adoption has propelled it […]

  • Discrepancies: The Stuff Of Nightmares For Ad Ops

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sudha Reddy, director of ad operations, West Coast, at xAd. While it seems that everyone is talking about header bidding, fraud, cross-screen, viewability and data, I see the biggest issues facing the industry being […]

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