Category: online media

  • ShiftForward – online advertising technology R&D

    It’s been a while since I last wrote on my blog, and for a good reason. I’ve spent the last few months setting up a technology start-up to bring together outstanding engineering with deep online advertising understanding. Its goal is to take advantage of the gap in businesses between their great advertising ideas and their…

  • Forrester’s Emily Riley online advertising forecast 2010-2012

    Forrester’s forecast on online advertising for the next 12 to 24 months, covering RTB, DSP, and other three-letter acronyms no one had heard of a year ago. Caught it on ExchangeWire , here’s a copy, well worth seeing: Media Buying Goes Real Time, Emily Riley at the AdMeld Partner Forum View more presentations from AdMeld.

  • Behavioural Targeting: The Future (a video by Audience Science)

    When a competitor does something interesting and it benefits the whole industry, it should be commended and shared. So here it is, “2020 The Future of Behavioural Targeting” by Audience Science, looking back at the evolution of the Internet as a media consumption platform and speculating where it will be in 11 years time: update:…

  • Interest-based behavioural targeting cookies: What do they know about you?

    Online privacy is now a hot a topic as it ever was since the introduction of cookies in the early 90s. Cookies enable a website to recall that your browser is the same browser that visited it on previous sessions, and over time this effectively lets the web sites build a list of interest topics…

  • HTTP and HTTPS tags without using JavaScript

    Very neat trick I found out recently is that if you omit the protocol from an HTML src tag it will use the same protocol as the current URL, which is ideal if you need to have one universal HTML tag that works with both HTTP and HTTPS without having to use JavaScript tricks to…