April 1, 2024 CMA and Publishers Still Worried About the Privacy Sandbox Forbes SSP Integration Testing New EU Election Guidelines for Social Media Strict AI Advertising Contract Guidelines Garner Mixed Reactions Despite Assurances, CMA and Publishers Are Uneasy About Privacy Sandbox The unease around Privacy Sandbox continues to grow, despite…
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A group of publishers logged onto their ad account, seemingly attaining millions of ad dollars in minutes. After some ad experts investigated the programmatic ad auction, they found that some advertisers were bidding at rates as high as $1 billion. The error was a brief server anomaly at Pubmatic.
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Amid a global pandemic and racial reckoning in the U.S., Co-Founders DéVon Christopher Johnson and Rhonesha Byng created the nonprofit BOMESI to support Black-owned media businesses and educate the public on their importance. Over the past few years, BOMESI has steadily worked to ensure that Black-owned media businesses can carve out…
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According to ESPN, Super Bowl LVIII averaged around 123.4 million viewers, and advertisers pay top dollar to feature their ads during the Super Bowl every year because they know they will reach a large audience. But the real question is, who took the advertising crown? According to AdImpact's viewership data…
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From the ad quality challenges associated with capturing political ad spend, to the targeting and metrics evolution and attention's dominance, to battling bad ads that tarnish consumers' perceptions of media orgs, to helping sales teams take advantage of adops' treasure trove of data to improve monetization strategies — AdMonsters had…
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AdMonsters YOY traffic has grown immensely. To mark this milestone, we're sharing a list of some of the most-read AdMonsters articles from 2023. From the challenges of Seller Defined Audiences, to data monetization in an era of ID deprecation, to a path to net zero, to how publishers can safely…
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While GroupM and others are forecasting a modest slowdown in advertising spending next year, one channel will see a sizable bump: retail media. According to a DoubleVerify survey of 400 US, UK, French, and German marketers, retail media networks are an attractive, privacy-friendly way to reach new customers and engage consumers…
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A new CIMM + 4As report offers a methodological approach for assessing privacy liabilities, as well as established and emerging solutions to help TV advertisers launch privacy-compliant campaigns.
Read MoreAdMonsters November 10, 2023 Making Programmatic Easier for All with a Meta DSP Long before MediaMath shut down, Mike Hauptman and Dan Bougourd were intrigued by the idea of building a meta DSP. They both joined MediaMath in the company’s early days, but by 2018, they were itching to…
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In August, background actors told reporters that Hollywood studios started creating AI scans of them, without making it clear how those scans would be used. Their union wanted ironclad veto power over “digital doubles,” and minimum pay rates when AI is used to create an actor’s digital likeness.
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