For aiMatch, I am organising an advertising technology demo day in London. Here’s what I said on the aiMatch blog:

We speak with Ad Operations professionals around the world on a regular basis.  In many organizations, the same person makes advertising technology decisions, while also managing the day-to-day business of ensuring that advertising campaigns are delivered correctly.  In today’s market, the number of technology vendors is rapidly increasing, but for those working on the frontline of ad operations, time is precious.  There’s a need to understand what new technologies do but limited time to investigate them.  And often, those investigations come with a full-on sales pitch.

We believe that there’s a place for in-depth conversation, but we also understand that many publishers want to start by getting a feel for the technologies out there without the perceived pressure and time commitment that can come with sitting through a formal pitch and PowerPoint presentaion.
This is why we have decided to host a “demo day”.

Join us for this FREE event, and dive into hands-on product demonstrations personalized for you. Not only do you get to see the applications in action, but you also get one-on-one time with a product specialist who can answer questions and help you determine the right fit.
The first demo days will take place next Wednesday in London. We’re joining two other exciting technology suppliers in the digital advertising space – Improve Digital and Grapeshot – to showcase our products without any sales presentations or any pressure.  You can check out three products at one-time and under one roof, or come and see only one; our aim is to give you a sense of what we’re all doing and how new technologies might be useful to your business.

Come and ask us questions, see the products and – we promise – no slides!  The event is free but to make sure there’s time for everybody we’re asking you to register. You can find more details at Demo Day Invite.

Cheers!
Jon

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Elsewhere: Watching The Decline of New Labour

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His belief in a parliamentary democracy and MPs who work on behalf of their constituents is clear and often put him at odds with senior party colleagues. The fact that he does not follow the party line all the time is what makes his account all the more memorable.

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Last Week In Digital Advertising #10

January 24, 2011

Is that something we should be considering for the future? Will the idea of advertising campaigns disappear? Perhaps our vision of the right message to the right person at the right time means that brands need to be constantly in-market. How else can the be assured of being at the right time?

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Last Week In Digital Advertising #9

January 17, 2011

At the starting blocks of 2011 and I can already see the trends emerging for the topics that will be the mainstay of Last Week In Digital Advertising for the next twelve months. Should I just give up now? Regardless, here we go for the first view of the new year and, periodically, I’ll check-in with this list to see if we’re talking about other things.

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Elsewhere: Can Digital Advertising Ever Replace Traditional Advertising?

January 14, 2011

There is no such thing as traditional advertising; the method of consumption and delivery constantly changing. Glossy magazines evolved from newsprint and only the fact they have to be printed is similar their styles, reproduction and consumption habits wildly different. Colour was an evolution in print but also in television, as will be high definition and 3D. Why would be class a broadcast 3D television ad as ‘traditional’ and a image-based banner ad as ‘digital’?

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Elsewhere: Will 2011 be the year that internet radio will pass traditional radio?

January 5, 2011

Then there are habits to break. Others here have touched on the car radio but broadcast receivers are also clock radios, shower radios, kitchen radios etc. I imagine substantial number of these form part of a routine and there’re not easy, nor cheap, to replace quickly. And why would you if it’s still working well for you?

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Here Comes Capital

January 4, 2011

I do find it heart-warming that, while the comments are in the main equally predictable, they show that people are still passionate about the radio station they listen to.

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Elsewhere: An Insiders View Of Government

January 4, 2011

The diary format is easy to dip in to – and that had been my intention – but I found I was hooked and could spend many hours reading; it’s not a slimline book!

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2011 Digital Advertising Horoscope

January 1, 2011

Transparency will be the watch word in 2011 and we’ll all be bombarded with links to opt-out screens. I trust that we’ll get better at explaining how and what, if any, data is used. I also suspect we’ll see an emergence of more data validation services.

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Report Card

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At the start of the year I wrote a couple of predictions for 2010 in digital advertising (it was either that or try and pen a New Year’s hit record and my wordsmith-ing just isn’t up to that). I could, of course, forget about them, pretend I’d never dealt those cards and move on with this year’s predictions but you know I’ve never been one to resist pointing out my personal failings. So, did anything actually come true or should you be relying on fortune telling talents of somebody on the end of Blackpool pier in a wooden caravan for your 2011 bets?

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Last Week in Digital Advertising #8

December 27, 2010

I am hoping that 2011 is the year television ads get more relevant and interactive In a time when the amount of time U.S. households spent watching TV and using the Internet is equal at 13 hours per week surely we are at the convergence point we all talked about so much in recent years.

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Last Week in Digital Advertising #7

October 4, 2010

And so to New York where Google predicted “mobile is going be the number one screen through which users engage with advertisers’ digital brands” That’s just one of the seven predictions that Google’s Neal Mohan and Barry Salzman are widely reported to have said at IAB’s MIXX.

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Last Week In Digital Advertising #6

September 27, 2010

It’s not surprising to have heard a number of suppliers at last week’s ad:tech conference bemoan the technical confusion arising from our industry: which technologies should be adopted and what can they do for their businesses? At least one mainstream publisher suggested there were simply too many technologies around and there wasn’t enough time to evaluate them all.

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Last Week In Digital Advertising #5

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Video is, of course, a popular digital advertising topic. It’s rapidly evolving and we’re seeing good adoption from those of us watching to those buying & selling the space. My new favourite website name, newteevee, quoting ComScore, reported that 1.4B minutes of live online video was watched (in the US) in July. That’s an impressive 600% growth, which Business Insider happily charts for us.

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Forty

September 12, 2010

There’s always a they and, in this case, they say life begins today. If that’s true then quite was the past forty years have been I have no idea. For some reason that I have yet to understand, turning forty is a point when people look back. They don’t do it so much at 39 and, I imagine, not so much at 41 either.

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