REsource Center

Marketing & Digital Advertising Blog

Articles, thought leadership, best practices, and advertising industry analysis from the Basis team.

Key Considerations for a Future-Ready Agency Tech Stack

Agency leaders must adopt a strategic approach when optimizing their tech stacks, addressing today’s digital advertising complexities while preparing for the future.

Read More
This is a block of text. Double-click this text to edit it.

Blog Posts

The Addictive, Digital Way of Life

Emerging technologies are expanding and overflowing into our daily lives. Today, most people do not distinguish between online display, video, mobile, internet radio, and digital-out-of-home channels. Instead, these emerging channels are automatically integrated into everyday routines, often simultaneously, to create an addictive, digital way of life. Mobile, video, and internet radio channels are just a few of the emerging technologies that are exploding in adoption and advertising growth.

Read More
Quality Sites & Environments for Premium Advertisers

Great read by Mike Shields: Making the Wrong Impression - How sites with dubious content are attracting ads from blue-chip brands
Obviously, great writing like this has many low quality players scared based on the comments received. Mike Shields is shedding light on things a lot of companies, many of the brand name ad tech companies, don’t want people to know. But, that’s why journalism exists. And that’s why high-quality, journalistic-based media companies deserve better than how the current SSP/DSP market is treating them.

Read More
A New Wave of Motion Control Technology

An unfortunate or fortunate side-effect of a digital media job is the frequency in which a conversation leans toward Steven Spielberg’s box office hit, Minority Report. Whether it’s discussing retinal scans, interactive monitors, or dynamic personalization of advertising, the movie has everything, including a side order of Tom Cruise crazy.

Read More
Multi-Channel Touch-Points, Welcome Invite to Mobile Ads

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. According to a recent study, marketers, agencies, and publishers may recognize that a seamless experience across channels is important for consumers, but they are not yet following their targets down that path. By shifting to a more holistic approach along with more inter-departmental integration, marketers can benefit from stronger branding experiences.

Read More
What Media Shifts in Next 5 Years Mean for Newspapers

By 2017, there will be no printed metro newspapers, no local network TV stations, and few printed magazines. Weekly newspapers and video will be thriving. Tablets will be common and cheap. WiFi and WiMax will be everywhere. What do these and other predictions mean for the newspaper industry?

Read More
Centro Teams With Krux to Protect Publisher Data

Read the Entire Story on MediaPost

Read More
Centro Throws Down Gauntlet to Ad Exchange Arbitrager

Read the Entire Story on ClickZ

Read More
Ad Exchange Arbitragers, Internet Radio and Banner Ads

Publishers are currently facing challenges with the current ad exchange ecosystem, primarily due to data leakage. We recently shared our thoughts on how to alleviate this uncertainty by protecting publisher audience data, which can sometimes be bought and sold by exchanges without publisher consent.

Read More
12 Chicago Companies Make ICIC's List of 100 Fastest-Growing Urban Businesses in America

Read the Entire Story on World Business Chicago

Read More
chevron-down