Here’s the approach that OTT / CTV / Gaming and Mobile Publishers should take in order to take control of their inventory monetization: 1] Solution and Technical Architecture: It is critical to understand the entire ad serving flow and its various aspects. For example: How is the ad sever being called? Where are video assets […]

In the past few weeks I have seen CEOs and other executives posting the fact that their team’s productivity has gone up x% (pick a number between 15-45) due to COVID-19 forcing their teams to work from home. But it’s not all sunshine and roses.  Here’s a list of challenges your team members may face… […]

Advertising Technology had played an important role in Ad Ops. Many companies are investing in technology to reduce manual efforts and automate various business processes.  Analytics platform can be a lifesaver for Publishers, Publisher networks, Agencies, and Brands. A properly implemented analytics platform can enable identification of opportunities and risks and empower real-time data-driven decision […]

It’s never easy, it never has been, and it never will be as a CEO / leader of your tribe / village or whatever fancy management name you give it. If you are on a mission and take ownership of that mission, any aspect of it, then you will expose yourself to the most wonderful, […]

Gone are the days when Ad Operations team was just trafficking campaigns and running basic reports to check campaign pacing and fulfillment. With the advent of Programmatic ads, Ad Operations team now has to get comfortable with… 1] Complex set up of ad units 2] Working with a variety of Demand Partners 3] Complicated set […]

COVID-19 has landed Publishers in a unprecedent times. Publishers who were earlier just bleeding have now suddenly found themselves in the “death zone”. COVID-19 has dried up budgets and pushed Publishers in terminal velocity. If you look back at the past few years, you will begin to piece together a story for why Publishers find […]

You must have experienced annoying ads on mobile devices which do not have an obvious way to exit. Imagine a situation where you want to make a call in an emergency and that full page ad suddenly pops up on your screen and asks you to wait for 10 sec. Definitely not a great user […]

What is DOOH Advertising?  I am sure you must have heard of DOOH Advertising if you have not been living under a rock. To decode DOOH Advertising we should first understand Out of Home (OOH) Advertising. OOH Advertising is traditional outdoor advertising. Typical OOH formats include billboards, shop ads, On-car ads etc. Digital Out of […]

March 5th, 2020 / Publisher Operations, Monetization Strategy What is App-ads.txt? Publishers have already been using ads.txt to authorize partners who can sell their digital inventory. To know more about Ads.txt you can click here. Ads.txt was designed to cater only for Desktop and Mobile web traffic. With ever increasing fraud in Mobile App traffic, […]