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Why Curating Diverse-Owned Media is Good Business for Agencies—And How to Get It Right

Learn how curating diverse supply partnerships can help agencies reach target audiences and engage new clients.

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The Increasing Importance of Having a Mobile Strategy

On May 30th, the venture capitalist Mary Meeker released her latest “Internet Trends” report. The presentation is packed with fantastic stats and charts that are destined to find their way into marketing decks over the next quarter. The presentation does an amazing job of outlining the state of the internet, as well as highlighting the changes that mobile devices and increased connectivity are having on consumer behavior. With a key focus on mobile, the report outlines the massive opportunity that these devices present for advertisers. The report also makes the case that it will simply take time for advertising dollars to follow the massive number of eyeballs that are increasingly moving “mobile.”

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Data Theft Continues to Plague Online Publishers

Online tracking on 50 of the most-visited websites has risen sharply since 2010, driven in part by the rise of online-advertising auctions, according to a new study by data-management company Krux Digital Inc.

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Virtual Experiences from Mobile and OOH Advertising

What if you could successfully complete your weekly grocery shopping from a train station? Peapod, a grocery delivery service based in Illinois, recently made this desirable experience a reality by combining mobile and out-of-home (OOH) advertising in order to launch a “virtual store” in a Chicago train station.

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TV/Video Integration, Organization and Efficiency

Online video’s ad spending growth is predicted to outstrip TV’s growth through 2016. Despite this growth, TV and online video advertising are slowly moving towards integration. Why?

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Thriving in a Data-Driven Marketplace

The Internet has changed publishing forever—not just how people consume information, but also how marketers reach those consumers. Marketers can now build cross-web consumer profiles across sites and devices. And they can target those consumers on interests, purchases, actions, and inferred or explicit demographic details without the publisher ever being involved.

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The Makings of the Centro Brand Exchange

In today’s increasingly fragmented media landscape, publishers with high-quality, journalistic content can only survive by protecting their inventory and user data. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that scarcer inventory begets better rates.

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Not Quite Cutting the Cord

NBC Universal announced that it will make more than 3,000 hours of Olympics coverage available online to viewers who currently subscribe to cable. This is a choice that more and more media companies are making as they move towards the “TV Everywhere” model of doing business, which requires that users prove that they pay for TV content before they can stream online content.

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Bringing Childlike Chaos Back to Media

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Bringing Childlike Chaos Back to Media

Do you remember when you were a child playing with your friends and completely losing track of time, ignoring the constant reminders about dinnertime? Did you ever turn a towel into a cape to become a superhero or an eraser into a car to become the next NASCAR champion? Did you ever find great pleasure in a mess of unorganized toys and odd clothes?

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