“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. Matt will present “5 Things You Should Do Now To Get Ready For Our Post-Cookie World” at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO conference on Oct. 21. Register to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by John Clyman, vice president of engineering, marketplace quality and security, at Magnite. It’s time to provide sellers with transparency into the buy side of the industry, just as buyers have rightfully demanded transparency from […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Digital advertising is becoming subtly and silently polarized. Not in the angry, conflicted way currently witnessed in politics, but a bifurcation in the road ahead is […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Corbin de Rubertis, head of innovation at Meredith Corp. Retailers once operated as walled gardens and were deeply unwilling to share their data. But a shift in marketplace conditions and their own priorities has caused […]
Eliminating arbitrage will become even more important after Apple implements its IDFA changes. Realistically, anywhere from 30% to 80% of a publisher’s traffic is being arbitraged, said Nathan Levin, CEO and founder of Mobile UA Ltd., a one-man consultancy he founded in 2018 to help developers navigate the mobile ecosystem’s complexities and tripwires. His clients […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Tick tock goes the clock. (Not that TikTok.) The countdown to the end of cookies is on. And with that, third-party data will […]
Here’s a little good news from the publishing world for a change: BuzzFeed will restore staff salaries this month and end a program that cut union members’ schedules and pay by 20%. In late March, BuzzFeed was one of the first publishers to announce pandemic-related cost-cutting measures with tiered 5% to 25% salary cuts, followed […]
Consumers might be willing to pay for Netflix, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime to watch TV, but they’re not as open to shelling out bucks for subscription podcast apps. Although some podcasts are able to drum up their own subs, most podcasts are distributed freely, and a majority of listeners in the United States use […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mike Brooks, SVP of revenue at WeatherBug. WeatherBug has participated in dozens of closed-door partner and ecosystem meetings regarding Apple’s impending iOS 14 release, and one thing has become painfully clear: App publishers bear […]
Even as mobile ad platforms get their houses in order as Apple restricts IDFA in iOS 14, there are still a lot of open questions that remain, said David Gregson, a product manager at Twitter’s MoPub who’s directly involved with the mobile exchange’s response plan to Apple’s updates. “There’s still a lack of clarity about […]
“The Sell Sider” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Bijan Ziaei, director of demand partnerships at VRTCAL. Publishers, advertisers and ad tech vendors all support reducing ad fraud and increasing marketplace transparency. Yet, one of our most powerful […]
“The Sell Sider” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jacob Donnelly, founder of A Media Operator. While there’s some truth to local media companies’ claim that Facebook and Google – which dominate the ad business – caused their […]
Gaming might have an audience of all ages, but if a brand is just going to slap an ad into a game, then it might as well not bother. “If you just want to run a simple media activation, frankly, you don’t need gaming for that – media can run anywhere,” said Alexandre Tan, VP of […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. From the consumer’s point of view, advertising hasn’t evolved. Digital ads mimic print’s design as simply a space on a page. And video ads take […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CafeMedia. Ads.txt has been a standard for several years now and has become something that we take for granted. That’s a good thing, as it speaks to […]
Jam City is jamming, despite COVID-19. The LA-based casual mobile game studio plans to hire artists, producers, data analysts and people focused on creative strategy. Gaming is one of the few verticals that’s growing during the ongoing health crisis. People started playing more games when stay-at-home orders were announced in March, and the behavior has […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Shuptrine, vice president of marketing at Adzerk. In May Google announced major 2021 changes to its search ranking algorithm, including the addition of core web vitals, which are new metrics related to page […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rob Rasko, founder and CEO at The 614 Group. It’s hard not to look at 2020 as annus horribilis, if I may quote the Queen. We all entered the new year very much aware that our […]
Lomit Patel, VP of growth at IMVU, a 3D avatar-based social networking universe, was already planning for an economic downturn in 2017. Growth marketing, he said, is as much about expansion as it is about mitigating risk. “I never only think about the moment, I think 12 to 18 months out,” said Patel, who joined […]
Michael Smith joined NPR as chief marketing officer in April in the midst of COVID-19 and on the cusp of a racial justice revolution. Both are massive trends that all companies are grappling with right now. But media companies are also contending with a third giant trend: the shift in how people consume media as […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Requidan, founder and CEO at Media Tradecraft. You may have noticed that as we all face months working at home, some of us took to a more rigorous brand of spring cleaning this year. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Shaughnessy, senior vice president of operations and partnerships at Kargo. The economic downturn caused by COVID-19 has accelerated supply-path optimization (SPO) conversations and will force suppliers that don’t exceed buyer demands and expectations […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Remember all the times that media owners complained about how the majority of advertisers’ budgets end up in the pockets of Google and Facebook? Today […]
As people nest in their homes during the pandemic, Food52 has been serving them content – and products – that match their interests. During the pandemic, sales in Food52’s shop have risen 175% year over year. Unique visitors doubled in May. But the pandemic also changed Food52’s own ambitions to grow its brand. After receiving […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Julie Rubash, vice president of legal at Nativo. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has significant ramifications for publishers and their handling of consumer data, not just in California but across the country and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. I’m doing a lot of prepping lately. With increased demand and stressed supply chains, I’m ordering staples further in advance and stockpiling. We […]
Since The Washington Post opened up its header-bidding wrapper and ad-rendering engine Zeus Performance to publishers last fall, more than 50 sites have signed on, including The Dallas Morning News and fake news debunker Snopes. For both sites, improving page performance and ad viewability was a major draw. While those short-term boosts provide an immediate […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. I have always considered a programmatic monoculture to be one of the biggest threats to digital advertising. A lack of diversity in experience, backgrounds and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Requidan, founder and CEO at Media Tradecraft. There’s a lot to admire about restaurateur David Chang. He’s accomplished, innovative, highly creative and, these days, reflective. He rose from humble beginnings to attain “underground” […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written about the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Amanda Martin, vice president of enterprise partnerships at Goodway Group. In the media, where there are eyeballs – time spent – there are dollar signs, and where there are dollars, there is fraud. A […]
