Apr 06

Last Month in Display Advertising

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Sam’s daily shared display advertising news articles & retweets Continue reading

Jan 20

Ad revenue forecasting – requirements

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This forecast method is better than others for a number of reasons outlined at the end of this post. But rather than jump ahead to the answer, see next what level of granularity of data you’ll need to build your forecasting tool internally and try to figure out why this method could be better than others. Continue reading

Jan 06

So you want better ad revenue forecasting?

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This is quite possibly the least exact science there is: ad revenue forecasting. Every publisher goes through this exercise on an annual basis. Budget period comes around at different times for different companies. Most media operators either operate on a calendar year (January to December) or a broadcast year (September to August) but there are some differences. In most cases, budgets have to be proposed 4 months out and finalised a good month or 2 before the start of the new fiscal year. Continue reading