Ads, airline seats, and higher revenue: yield optimization at work

Just as it has for airlines, yield management -- controlling inventory availability in a way that affects prices and maximizes revenue -- will significantly improve revenue for online publishers. A unified yield management platform will give publishers a unified marketplace in which all buyers have access to every impression. Availability will be based on price and bookings biased to preserve value. Process control will be automated and demand and supply forecasts clearer. No one will waste time trafficking in ads on a day to day basis and publishers can reinvent how they sell ads. Sponsor content by AppNexus. The post Ads, airline seats, and higher revenue: yield optimization at work appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2015-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4 Major Publishers Can Now Put Ads in Their Online Comment Sections

It was only a matter of time before marketers started squeezing native ads into every nook of a publisher's site, and now Condé Nast, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fox News can sell promos that pop up in story comments. Today, Livefyre—a tech company that powers online discussions—is... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Solid' Quarto half-year revenues rise 1%

The chief executive of The Quarto Group, Marcus Leaver, said the company achieved a “solid” set of results in the first half of the year, with revenues rising 1% compared to the same period a year earlier.   For the six months ending 30th June 2015, revenues totalled $66.2m (£42.4m), 1% higher... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Media reports a 62.9% drop in full-year profit after 5.3% fall in revenue

Despite a 45% increase in revenue from its Domain real estate advertising, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald was unable to offset print decline• News Corp sees strong growth in digital real estate services and book publishingFairfax Media has reported a 62.9% drop in full-year profit to... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook offers up its autoplay video ads to other apps

If you're already annoyed with the autoplay video ads in your Facebook timeline, you might want to brace yourself. The social network is opening up that advertising tech to outside apps, or more specifically, to publishers who leverage Menlo Park's... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2015-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Is Working on a Twitter-Like App That Lets Publishers Send Mobile Breaking News Alerts to the Masses

Facebook is working on a stand-alone mobile news application that seems to be part of its Facebook for Business initiative.   This product, which sounds similar to Twitter, seems to be different from Facebook for Work, an initiative that wa ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N Education Q1 Revenue Up 5.9%

Barnes & Noble Education, the company which was officially spun off from B&N in August, reported first quarter revenues of $239 million for BNE, an increase of $13.3 million (or 5.9%) over the same period a year ago. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Further quarterly revenue drop at S&S

Revenues for Simon and Schuster's global operations dropped 5.7% year on year in the second quarter of  2015, its parent company CBS has reported. The total for the quarter stood at $199m, a drop of $12m. However operating income was $25m, up 9% from $23m in the second quarter of 2014, with CBS... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ad Age's 2015 Hispanic Fact Pack Is Out Now

Marketers continue to boost spending in the U.S. Hispanic media market, with 2014 advertising outlays growing by 12.0%, far ahead of the estimated 4.9% growth for overall U.S. major-media ad spending. As usual, internet spending (up 18.3%) and TV (up 14.7%) fueled that growth. Newspapers eked... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Deconstructing Amazon’s #haveKINDLEwillTRAVEL Ads

Roger Tagholm deconstructs the brilliance of Amazon's new Kindle advertisements, which promote the ereader as a chic, travel companion and paragon of cool. The post Deconstructing Amazon’s #haveKINDLEwillTRAVEL Ads appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Breed of Digital Publishers Just Say No to Ad Tech

Today’s new breed of digital publishers is just not that into ad tech.     Indeed, the much hyped cadre of venture-backed, Web-born, and millennially-inclined publishers — think Vox Media, Mic and Refinery29 &nd ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wattpad's Native Ads Pitch in a TL;DR World? Consumers and Brands Love Long Reads

First the Serial podcast became wildly popular. Then President Barack Obama sat down for an interview with Marc Maron for the comedian's WTF program, and the audio-only format that is podcasting was validated like never before. The developments largely flew in the face of the increasingly... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Study With Major Brands Compares Ad Recall for Mobile and Desktop Promos

If you want people to remember a mobile ad, you're going to have to pay for it, according to new research from digital ad firm Undertone. Last year, Undertone worked with Ipsos ASI to look at how takeover "high-impact" desktop ads affected brand recall. This year, the company looked at how... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How The Enthusiast Network is Diversifying Its Revenue

Navigating the transition from publisher to multimedia content company. The post How The Enthusiast Network is Diversifying Its Revenue appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gannett Hires WaPo, Yahoo Sales Exec Kevin Gentzel as Revenue Chief

In the past year Kevin Gentzel has gone from newspapers to digital media and back again.After hopping from The Washington Post to Yahoo last year, Mr. Gentzel has landed at Gannett as the newspaper company's chief revenue officer and will report to the company's president of domestic publishing... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the Publishing Industry in 2020, Print Will Still Dominate Revenues

Ovum’s new Digital Consumer Publishing Forecast is published tomorrow.  It takes a five year view at how this sector will change. Ahead of publication, Ovum analyst Charlotte Miller gives TheMediaBriefing an exclusive look at some of t ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meredith Corp. Bought an Ad-Tech Company to Make Grocery Shopping Easier

Women's magazine publisher Meredith Corp. has acquired Grocery Server, a digital firm that powers location-based ads for food and retail brands. Grocery Server was founded in 2008 as an ad platform that pulls location data from grocery stores and CPG brands into ads on publishers' websites.... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why ad buyers are slow to embrace attention metrics

Premium publishers have been pushing the idea of selling ads based on attention time, saying that the longer people spend on a site, the more value there is for advertisers. But some ad buyers aren’t biting. Too few publishers are selling this way. For some advertisers, the goal isn’t to be in... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Is YP's Search Data Strong Enough to Win More Local Digital Ad Dollars?

A few years ago, Foursquare, Yelp and Groupon seemed to be booming with brands and consumers, painting a pretty lucrative picture of the future of local advertising. Fast-forward to today—Yelp is reportedly up for sale, Foursquare's growth has stalled, and the daily-deal market has burned out. ... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook steps up competition with YouTube with ad-supported videos

Social network already has 4bn views a day of its native clips, but helping their creators to make money is its next ambitionVideos uploaded directly to Facebook are watched more than 4bn times a day according to the social network. Now it wants their uploaders to be able to make money from... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is sharing more ad dollars with its video creators

Facebook's shiny logo isn't all that's new for the social network today: The outfit's also announced how it plans to split video ad revenue with publishers. Like YouTube, Facebook will give content creators 55 percent of ad revenue and keep the rest,... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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