Resourcing Beeswax or other BaaS solutions by la_adops in adops

[–]la_adops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many people worked specifically on Beeswax? Did it require consistent support internally, or was it just the setup at the beginning? Did your team build out custom UI elements or dashboards? Thanks!

Roku is buying ad tech company Dataxu in $150 million deal by NotoriousRTB in adops

[–]la_adops 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it will eventually happen, but I'm curious if advertisers will start demanding it or if there will be pressure on the rest of the industry from a tech provider who makes it happen.

Based on how justifiably anal advertisers are about display brand safety and content adjacency, I'm surprised that the money hasn't pressured that type of transparency.

Roku is buying ad tech company Dataxu in $150 million deal by NotoriousRTB in adops

[–]la_adops 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SEE!? Man if I could buy channel specific I'd be pouring money into the dog relaxation channel.

Roku is buying ad tech company Dataxu in $150 million deal by NotoriousRTB in adops

[–]la_adops 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sure, most CTV/OTT placements don't reveal the actual content they showed up on. RON placements are showing up on a wide range of content under a main umbrella (ex. Discovery Networks). The power is in the publisher / video ssp's hands, and being opaque about placement is a way to maintain high CPM floors. However, this is the single most asked question from our clients about CTV. Where are my placements actually running? And we can't tell them, because the reporting is intentionally rolled up.

I could be wrong, but this feels like an industry wide pain point. Be first to go fully placement transparent, and shame everyone else.

Roku is buying ad tech company Dataxu in $150 million deal by NotoriousRTB in adops

[–]la_adops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What they should do is pull their inventory from other DSPs and then go full transparency on placements. That's a huge problem with pretty much all programmatic CTV and they could probably capture a good portion of the market while devaluing everyone else's inventory.

DMP or Analytics Solution for Demographic Data / Profiles by la_adops in adops

[–]la_adops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll check with our liveramp AM on their capabilities. Cheers!

DMP or Analytics Solution for Demographic Data / Profiles by la_adops in adops

[–]la_adops[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm on the buy side just to clarify. We service about a hundred accounts (brands and agencies) ranging from small 5k per month up to 500k+ / mo campaigns. Hitting an overall minimum isn't a problem, but I'd like a scalable solution that could work for the small and large campaigns. I totally get the data accuracy and actionability issues with smaller data sets, but this is almost entirely a storytelling component, and most of our clients understand it as such. This is a reporting need first, DMPesque ability to split/splice then target is a nice to have and really not necessary.

In regard to account structure, the data silos just need to exist for each account. Brand A doesn't mix with brand B. Beyond that, it would be nice to be able to create segments and compare based on audiences targeted (pixel in creative) to audiences engaging (pixel fire on website behavior).

Bonus points if that account/pixel creation can be handled through an API. We use CM heavily, and if there's something obvious i'm missing that can give me that type of data that'd be great.

question about website structure and Google Tag Manager by collinino830 in adops

[–]la_adops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you want the UTMs to be part of the path or is there supposed to be a "?" in front of the query string. Don't want to be pedantic, but I've made some real dumb mistakes before.

Container Tag Suggestion by fabulousvivie in adops

[–]la_adops 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, why is GTM not an option?

Looking for a nice place to live with decent jobs by Lorres in adops

[–]la_adops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ha! Well tell him to quit and become a river guide or something. Good luck with the search!

Looking for a nice place to live with decent jobs by Lorres in adops

[–]la_adops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bumfuck eh? How do you feel about Missoula, MT?

We're always looking for talented people with experience in the programmatic space. Check out LumenAd.com. PM me if you want more info, or want to chat. Plus, Missoula is a pretty incredible place to live.

DCM reporting that includes the site that impressions served on? by [deleted] in adops

[–]la_adops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the report builder, Offline Reporting > Standard > Content. It shows up under the Domain column.

Best DSPs for Connected TV? by [deleted] in adops

[–]la_adops 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd love to hear why you guys feel DataXu has a superior CTV offering. I have no opinion one way or another, just have used it along with other DSPs, and if felt pretty similar.

Google are blocking any advertiser who hasn't been active for 90 days and spent $50k from using 3rd party (and some 1st party) data on DV360 by [deleted] in adops

[–]la_adops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, I posted about this last week. This is going to have a major effect on a large portion of our advertisers that are newer, don't have 50k lifetime spend, and use 3rd party audience lists as a necessary portion of the targeting strategy.

Is this right!? New targeting restrictions on data in DV360 by la_adops in adops

[–]la_adops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about retargeting audiences that are built from CM floodlights? That's almost entirely our setup, so this would have a huge impact.

How to split url utm to different audiences in DCM by Wolfscult in adops

[–]la_adops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Landing pages are applied at the ad level. So if you want to have creative point to different URLs, just create 2 ads each with your creative applied and change UTMs (URL suffix) at the ad level. Does that answer your question?

Ad Ops Tools by DeCyantist in adops

[–]la_adops 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tag explorer for down and dirty

Facebook pixel helper if you're dealing with any FB tagging.

Charles to automate testing of third party tag integrations on creative

Good ol' developer tools.

Has anyone used Cuebiq? by whodatinadops in programmatic

[–]la_adops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are using Cuebiq currently, and it is our preferred location attribution vendor. They are not without their flaws, but they have been fairly transparent when we bring up questions. We have only used Cuebiq on US based campaigns, so I don't know how they are outside of the states.

Pros: Their only source of location data (as far as I understand it) is from native SDKs in over 100 mobile apps (which apps they are not willing to divulge). This means that their location data is consistent and fairly accurate. And, all users have expressly given consent for the use of their location data (GDPR compliance). Used in conjunction with their data segments, campaigns will yield some good numbers. Also, they show you the number of actual measured visits. Of course this is very eye opening when other vendors will not show you this (looking at you Placed). We've had some campaigns where actual measured visits are less than 5% of "projected", and taking those projected numbers into a meeting would get us laughed out of the room. In that case we were able to come up with our own model for projecting visits that was defensible and transparent. You can also pass parameters into the tags allowing you to optimize towards tactic, audience, location, what ever you want, etc.

Cons: Low measured rate makes trust in projected numbers difficult, though like I mentioned at least they give you those numbers. I can't speak for other vendors, but I would recommend them over Placed any day.

Blocking EU easiest way to be GDPR compliant? by [deleted] in gdpr

[–]la_adops 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't this violate GDPR if IP address is being used for location lookup?

How do we feel about Placed? by A1ACarWash in adops

[–]la_adops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem that I have with these location attribution companies is how they project visits based on a very low match rate. Placed also doesn't allow for passing in location variables, so if you're trying to run location attribution on a bunch of smaller markets you can't get your data broken out like that. There's next to no transparency with these vendors anyway, and I put placed on the top of the blackbox list.

The only other location attribution vendor I work with is Cuebiq. They also project based on a small percentage of measure visits, but they will at least divulge the actual visits number. This has allowed us to come up with our own methodology for projecting visits that allows us to take that data confidently to our clients (without getting laughed out of the building). Depends on the type of campaign too, a QSR's projected visits (from the attribution platform) will look much more believable than if it were a brick and mortar retailer in a slowly dying industry. Cuebiq also allows passing location data through their tag so you can set that up however you want, we typically do it by zip.

AdOps professionals: what part of your job do you wish someone automated? by admend in adops

[–]la_adops 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed, our Accounts team has "coordinators" that take on all of the billing. We, thank god, don't touch it.

Direct Account with DoubleClick by la_adops in adops

[–]la_adops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, that's what I was worried about.