PFV Video: Operationalizing Inclusion—Effecting Change From Within

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, Melissa Bonnick, SVP, Client Results, Dentsu Aegis Network and Rachael McCombs, Sr. Director Ad and Media Operations, Digital Trends are effecting change within their organizations. So we invited them to talk with Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson to have a discussion about it…

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Facebook: Frenemy of the Open Web

September 16, 2020 Facebook: Open Web Ally ITP Toggled on for All Browsers Political Ad Spend Will Spur Rebound Amazon Closes in on the Duopoly It's Official: Taboola and Outbrain Breakup Ad Blocking on the Decline FB Supports the Open Web? Image sourced from Twitter CafeMedia’s Chief Strategy Officer, Paul…

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What Is IDFA?

It’s true that most people in the advertising world know more about IDFA than they did six months ago, but the twists and turns of the privacy plot are worth exploring. We asked Isaac Schechtman, Senior Director of Product Strategy at BidSwitch to catch us up on everything going on…

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Actionable Audience Data and Inventory—No Cookies Required

We spoke with Jake Abraham, President at Audigent about why he thought pubs seemed a little gun shy about identity solutions, how they should go about showcasing their first-party data as well as how Audigent plans to help them drive revenue by making their audience data and inventory actionable for…

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How Publishers Can Get Paid Faster

Media billing is like an Olympic relay race, the more adept you get at passing and receiving data the better chance you have of getting paid faster. Unfortunately, it’s a lot easier said, then done. Here are a few things you may want to consider to make your billing process…

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Publisher Revenue Dips 2.3%

September 08, 2020 Publisher Revenue Dips 2.3% A Viable Model for Local News? Pubs' Revenue Dips 2.3% It’s been hard out here for digital publishers in 2020. According to the latest Digital Publishers Revenue Index (DPRI), publishers’ revenue declined 2.3% YOY compared with Q1 2019. Overall, digital revenue fell by…

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What Is SKAdNetwork?

If Apple's plans to have each app ask users for tracking permissions becomes a reality, industry analysts predict low opt-in rates making IDFA access severely limited to advertisers. All at once, the SKAdNetwok framework has become an important measurement tool, one of the main ways advertisers will receive the attribution…

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Are You There, Publisher? It’s Me, Apple

Hey publisher! Apple here, I know I've been cagey in the past, but I'm ready to listen to all your concerns about iOS14 and some of our other future plans. Maybe I'll let you know a bit more about the new ad network! (It's not called iAd 2.0!)

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Raising the Roof: Advancing Diversity in Digital Media and Advertising Technology

In this milestone 5oth episode of Minority Report Podcast, live from AdMonsters Publisher Forum Virtual, hosts and ad ops/ad tech vets, Kerel Cooper and Erik A. Requidan chat with Reggie Hudson, Director of Digital Operations at Northstar Travel Group, Alicia Ray founder of The AdTech Collective, and Brenda Salce-Garcia, SVP, Global Customer Success at Operative & Co-Founder of Tech Bae.…

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PFV Video: Keynote Geer Dishes on Pub-Creative Team-Ups

Walt Geer, Executive Creative Director for Experience Design at VMLY&R, kicked off our inaugural Publisher Forum Virtual on Aug. 25, 2020, with an electrifying keynote the reverberated throughout the rest of the conference. In dissecting the current (sad) state of digital creative and showcasing numerous innovative campaigns, he made a…

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