“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. At a recent conference, David Jakubowski, Facebook’s head of ad technology, called Snapchat a hot product that might turn off advertisers if it doesn’t start offering more […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaclyn Stewart, senior director of publisher services at The 614 Group Most publishers have no trouble defining the roles of their sales or ad trafficking teams. The job titles themselves practically say it all. […]
For most of Imgur’s history, the bootstrapped company sold ads programmatically. And with 150 million unique visitors and 6 billion page views globally, the media company had enough scale to do well, even if CPMs skewed lower than direct. But that approach left money on the table. Imgur’s millennial male, geek culture-focused community is highly […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pete Longo, CEO of US Media at IDG Communications. It’s a data-driven world, and digital ad buyers still rely on the legacy notion that “scale” is necessary to harness as many eyeballs and as much […]
When Google vet Brit Morin created Brit + Co to focus on the millennial DIY set, she didn’t want to rely on the web’s surest, most turnkey form of monetization: banner ads. She thinks banner ads will become extinct. She also believes programmatic will fall by the wayside as advertisers choose branded content, video and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by AJ Okereke, head of revenue technology at Graphiq. Header bidding is a sell-side technology that allows advertisers to use real-time pricing to compete for a given impression within a publisher’s programmatic auction. This influx […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Gatz, CEO and founder at Q.Digital. Dear ad tech community, Medium-sized publishers deliver campaigns that are as complicated as those delivered by larger networks, but we need to do so with a much […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Hadrien Bouchrara, solution architect, Facebook Audience Network. Native advertising isn’t just the wave of the future – native is creating real business value for marketers all over the world at this moment. But many […]
Once, E.W. Scripps was a newspaper company. Now it’s a digital media, broadcast TV, over-the-top (OTT) and podcasting company. Along the way, it shed its newspapers, which are now part of Journal Communications, and its cable channels, spun off in 2008 into Scripps Networks Interactive. It also has been acquisitive. E.W. Scripps expanded into podcasting […]
“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. When I heard about the “cable wars” of the major investment banks in order to minimize latency, I completely understood. They wanted to make their fiber-cable connection […]
