One day, hopefully in the not too distant future, the Pandemic will meet its bitter end. But until then, publishers are adapting to the new normal and steadily planning for that fateful day. For now, they’re living in the era of the pivot, where the most promising path to revenue…
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Historically, the relationship between ad ops and sales has been labeled with an “It’s Complicated” status. But since the pandemic, the relationship between ad ops and sales has become far more collaborative. Now, the two teams are coming together to rethink and revise their processes, client approaches and even their…
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Every publisher has a treasure trove of data at their fingertips. One of the biggest challenges is turning that data into golden nuggets of insight that can propel the business to perform at high levels. That's why Ana Browne and Jon Dickinson launched Exigent Digital, coupling a unified data platform…
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It was slow starting for self-service ad platforms. Buyers were hellbent on using exchanges to cherry-pick their inventory. But 2020 is an extremely different marketplace, largely shaped by how the global Coronavirus pandemic has altered the landscape. In particular, publishers’ sales teams are focusing on big buys, leaving occasional smaller…
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John Shankman, CEO of Hashtag Labs, introduced us to the concept of an Advertising Management System. Much like a Content Management Systems (CMS) is for editors to update the website, an Advertising Management System (AMS) like HTL BID allows ad operations to manage header bidding settings and even keep up…
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It’s Think Tank season for AdMonsters and this past week we caught up with a number of publishers to talk through a range of topics thanks to ADvendio. The pubs that joined us were what I would classify as mid-sized publishers–their operations teams are relatively small. It was interesting to…
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After taking a massive hit from COVID-19, pubs' resiliency led to efficiently working-from-home, successfully diversifying revenue, and employing tools like automation and self-service to manage workflow and capture smaller budget spend. Recently, we chatted with a number of pubs at a roundtable discussion about planning for tomorrow’s very different ad…
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On Wednesdays at Publisher Forums, we let the attendees "take over" the conference. Attendee volunteers lead informal sessions with their peers on a variety of topics, and then report major takeaways to the whole group. Through the magic of technology (cough, Zoom, cough), we ran an experiment where we took this…
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So, you’re working from home now? (Go team #WFH!) For some of us, this is simply business-as-usual, but for many more, it’s likely your first time in this situation. With this in mind, AdMonsters brought together a group of ad operations professionals to discuss the unexpected move to working from…
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Self-service ad operations and media sales is really trending right now—Spotify, Hulu and Hearst are all doing it. At the recent PubForum in Santa Monica, Peo Persson, Co-Founder and CPO, DanAds, talked about the latest self-service ad operations and showcased how it could make publisher’s lives a little easier. We…
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