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What publishers should really ask when choosing an OVP Publishers are under growing pressure to choose video technology partners that not only maximize yield, but also balance user experience, editorial integrity, and long-term growth. To help make sense of this complex decision-making process, EX.CO recently released a guide to evaluating online video platforms (OVPs). Building … Read more
An exclusive conversation with Jasper Liu (DailyMail) and Tamir Shub (Intent IQ) Featuring Jasper Liu (Senior Programmatic Yield Analyst, DailyMail) and Tamir Shub (VP of Business Development, Intent IQ).
Agents at work: Harnessing AI for intelligent post-sales ops with Boostr’s Patrick O’Leary AI agents aren’t science fiction anymore. They’re showing up in the real workflows where publishers lose the most time: plan ingestion, IO revisions, trafficking, pacing, and optimization. The trick isn’t “add a chatbot.” It’s embedding intelligence at the exact moment and place … Read more
July’s Camp.Fire drilled into two of the industry’s hottest, but often conflated, topics: automation versus AI. Guest expert Dennis Colón, who has spent two decades inside adops teams and now builds RPA (Robotic Process Automation) apps at JIFFY.ai, joined Rob to separate the buzz from the business impact.
Ad ops guide to outsourcing BY MELISSA CHAPMAN Originally published in AdMonsters on May 27, 2021, updated September 7, 2024 It never fails. At nearly every PubForum event, either IRL or virtual, the topic of outsourcing is something the AdMonsters Community wants to talk about. The topic gets added to the agenda as either a … Read more
Camp.Fire: Bid request lifecycle Like salmon, a bid request starts a one-way journey upstream, hoping to spawn an actual bid. It faces many challenges and potential changes from publisher to SSP and then SSP to DSP. It’s time we understood what happens to a bid request along the way. Our Camp.Fire will start with Mike … Read more
Online Networking (drop the capital “N”) BY MELISSA CHAPMAN I had a version of the “networking” conversation a few times in the last month, so I thought it might be useful to share as a post for the larger community. Take what you like, leave what you don’t. But I would value your feedback, as … Read more
Camp.Fire: Publisher flooring strategies Establishing programmatic floors has long been a strategy for publishers – predating the move to first-price auctions. The practice however has a number of questions around it. Does dynamic flooring work? Does the buy side respect publisher floors? Are floor prices always passed through to the buy side accurately? We’ve assembled … Read more
Security Solution Scorecard You need to protect your users to grow as a publisher. The security solution scorecard. The most important recommendation that I can make is that you have a security partner. If you are running programmatic without a security partner, you are serving malvertising and inappropriate ads to your users. The fact that … Read more