PubForum Spotlight: Evolving Ad Operations Through Self-Service

Self-service ad operations and media sales is really trending right now—Spotify, Hulu and Hearst are all doing it. At the recent PubForum in Santa Monica, Peo Persson, Co-Founder and CPO, DanAds, talked about the latest self-service ad operations and showcased how it could make publisher’s lives a little easier. We…

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Coronavirus’ Media Fallout Spreads

Coronavirus is hurdling toward a distressing crossroads. Even though people are more active online than probably ever before, many publishers can’t monetize the traffic because they can’t draw advertiser spend. All the data suggests publishers are going to have a hard time waiting this out till the advertising faucets turn…

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PubForum Video: Keynote Jamie Gutfreund, Special Advisor at SuperAwesome

50th Publisher Forum Keynote Jamie Gutfreund came to AdMonsters with an interesting idea—she's currently a special advisor for SuperAwesome, which specializes in "kidtech" that enables brands to safely engage with younger audiences... You know, the ones that publishers have to be super cautious about targeting and collecting data from lest…

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How Is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Impacting Digital Media and Advertising?

In AdMonsters new weekly newsletter, The Wrapper, we summarize exciting news items that catch our eyes and link them to wider developments in digital media and advertising. As the global Coronavirus pandemic hit, we've been covering news about how it's impacting digital media and advertising, which includes ad ops, rev ops…

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What Are the Best Practices for Using Attention Metrics?

While attention has always underpinned advertising, the rising popularity of attention metrics is a recent phenomenon in digital advertising. Attention Metrics refer to a set of data that can be used to approximate consumer attention to both media placements and creative. These metrics range from loose proxies like viewability to…

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Reach & Message Frequency in CTV and OTT: “I Keep Seeing the Same Ads Over and Over Again.”

Part I of our overview of Reach and Frequency in the emerging Digital T/V landscape will cover the basics of the media planning and buying formula that has served as a key analytical tool even before television converged with digital video to become T/V (Television/Video). We'll also look closely at…

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Now Trending: Ad-Juster on Cross-Publisher Revenue Benchmarking

After years of playing guessing games about the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their direct-sold advertising, publishers now have a way to compare their individual performance against others in the industry with Ad-Juster's FlowIQ Benchmark solution. We spoke with Dan Lawton, Ad-Juster's CMO & CBDO, to learn more about how…

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What Can Blockchain Really Do for Advertising in 2020?

Back in 2018, there was a lot of hype about blockchain saving advertising and Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson was riding the wave—high. Now that the hype is over, there are actually quite a few projects proving every day that blockchain and related technologies like cryptography and permissioned ledgers can…

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Your Outsourcing Partner Could be the Consultant You Didn’t Know You Needed

More than a temporary salve, the right outsourcing provider can move from simply being a bolted on quick fix to becoming fully integrated with your team—ultimately transcending into a consultative partner contributing to business growth and helping to streamline operations. 

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PubForum 50: Four Ad Ops OGs Share Their Favorite PubForum Memories

As AdMonsters embarks on our 50th Publisher Forum Conference, we reached out to four ad ops vets (we'll call them AdMonsters Luminaries) for their reflections on what it means to be an AdMonster and what PubForum has meant to them and their careers. Let's take a walk down memory lane…

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