How To Avoid Trump and Brexit… By Not Avoiding Them

Digital advertisers may be thinking that the best thing to do is to avoid the terms “Trump” and "Brexit" at all costs, but doing so could mean your ads miss out on an awful lot of potentially lucrative revenue. So how do you avoid anything to do with Trump when…

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Derek Gatts Is Flexing Ad Product’s Creative Muscle at CNN

In his first 90 days, Derek Gatts, CNN's new Advertising Product, Innovation, Technology & Operations Leader has already embraced some of the key differences in his new organization. “A lot of the change was the transition from overseeing several different functions that could all work together under one mandate to…

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6 Takeaways from AdMonsters PubForum Vancouver 2019

It's true. Those of us working in digital publishing live in turbulent times. However, I came away from Admonsters PubForum Vancouver, August 18-21, feeling encouraged by enough bright spots in our industry to see the road ahead. I was particularly struck by the excitement around new mobile and video opportunities.…

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#PubForum: Top 10 Tweets From AdMonsters Publisher Forum Vancouver

From August 18-21, 2019, AdMonsters hosted the Publisher Forum in Vancouver, BC—three-and-a-half days of discussion and discourse where publishers gather to gather insights about the myriad issues and opportunities in the ever-evolving world of digital media. In addition to hearing from keynote speakers about earning audience attention in an overcrowded…

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Customer Experience Key to Streaming Advertising Success

In the war of streaming video, the gap between winners and losers depends on how well a publisher delivers on SVOD's promise—a data-driven business in which content is more personalized and the ad targeting capabilities are better than digital, or even TV. Viewer behavior can tell you what people want…

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Subscribing to New Revenue Streams With Scroll’s Tony Haile

Publishers know that diversified revenue streams are the key to thriving in the current market—there's more to monetization than ads. Still, the prospect of paid subscriptions leaves many a publisher wary—many can't see themselves building and managing New York Times-style paywalls, let alone driving enough subscription revenue to justify the…

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AdMonsters Playbook: Mobile App Ad Quality

In this playbook, developed in partnership with GeoEdge, we'll dive into why the mobile app space is due for an uptick, and why bad actors and malvetisers are likely to become even more of a threat.

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Call It a Comeback: The Return of Semantic Contextual Targeting

With vague regulations popping up that seem impossibly to comply with as browsers commit to a crackdown on third-party cookies, you're probably wondering what's in store for audience-based ad targeting. Then you notice your old friend Peer39 was just spun out of Sizmek and a voice in the back of your…

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Advertising’s Future Is Advertising Futures

Early on in my tenure reporting on the digital advertising space, I was fascinated by the concept of audience futures—enabling publishers to guarantee sales of audience segments that could be transacted programmatically. This seemed to be an evolution of both digital direct guaranteed sales and TV-buying, but unfortunately the market hasn't…

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A Future Bright and Cookieless

Between a dusting-off of classical ad measurement techniques and some serious geeking out over first-party data, advertisers will find that, far from being the airless, suffocating hellscape they have been taught to fear, this new “cookieless” world will prove a hospitable and possibly verdant environment for measurement and attribution.

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