How USA TODAY Sports Is Developing First-Party Authentication Strategies for Building Consumer Trust

Jason White, SVP and Head of Publishers, LiveRamp, and Chris Pirrone, General Manager, USA TODAY, Sports Media Group, take AdMonsters Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson, on a deep dive discussion into the world of publisher first-party authentication strategies. "If cookies were the currency before, the gold is that relationship with…

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Core Web Vitals Delayed; Browsers Say No to FLoC

April 22, 2021 Core Web Vitals Rankings Get Pushed Back a Bit Hey FLoC, Get Off My Block Around the Water Cooler Core Web Vitals Gets Pushed Back (and Most Sites Don’t Rank Well Yet Anyway) If Google’s new Core Web Vitals benchmarks for the “page experience” became the standard…

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Maximizing the Value of First-Party Data

In preparation for our upcoming webinar with Permutive: Vox Media’s Approach to a Changing Media Landscape, Tuesday, April 27, 1 PM ET, (Register now!), I spoke with Michael Ogunjobi, Customer Success Lead, Permutive, about how publishers can fully maximize the value of their first-party data and demonstrate that value to…

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How Pubs Can Monetize Advertisers’ Content From Social Media

In preparation for our upcoming webinar, Unlocking a Creative-First Approach to Social Display, on Thursday, April 22 @ 1 PM EST (Register now!), AdMonsters Advisory Board Chairman, Rob Beeler, spoke with Nikki Gertner, Senior Product Manager, Celtra, about monetizing an advertiser's content from social media, having a range of ad…

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Webinar Replay: OTT & CTV Privacy Controls: Activating Choice & Transparency in Apps

Tegna is on the path to providing that transparency and choice with their OTT audience. During our April 15, 2021 webinar, OTT & CTV Privacy Controls: Activating Choice & Transparency in Apps, Chris Fehrmann, Tegna VP of Digital Products, and Alex Cash, OneTrust Consent and Preference Management Lead, explained to…

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IPG Commits to More “Inclusive” Bidding & Buying; Brave Browser Blocks FLoC

April 14, 2021 IPG Commits to More “Inclusive” Bidding & Buying Contextual Gets a Cash Infusion Brave Browser Blocks FLoC Texas Tightens Reins On Google Antitrust Case Around the Water Cooler IPG Makes Less Biased Bids & Buys Priority with New DEI Hire Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Making…

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Cleaning Up the Programmatic Supply Chain 

The advertising ecosystem has a huge opportunity to create a more transparent programmatic supply chain, where SSPs, brands, ad tech vendors, and agencies alike can commit to using new tools and tactics to improve how they work with publishers. By enhancing the control and transparency in the programmatic supply chain, we will ultimately…

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Is Contextual Ready For Post-Cookie Prime Time?

Is contextual scalable? How can publishers prove performance? Does contextual need to be standardized? In this video from Publisher Forum Virtual 2021, Scott Messer, Senior Vice President, Media, Leaf Group speaks with Emily Healy, Director, Digital Standards, Publicis Media about all of these topics and more.

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If We Make it Easy for CTV Users to Give Consent … Maybe They Will, Says OneTrust’s Alex Cash

The shift to OTT and CTV creates an opportunity for publishers to engage a growing audience and deliver personalized experiences – and that includes privacy controls. In preparation for our upcoming webinar, OTT & CTV Privacy Controls: Activating Choice & Transparency in Apps, on Thursday, April 15 @ 1 PM…

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Could NFTs Be a Boon for Publishers?

April 06, 2021 Should Pubs Even Care About NFTs? Will ClubHouse's Direct Payments Shake Up the Digital Media Ecosystem? Around the Water Cooler...Everything Else We're Reading Could NFTs Be a Boon for Publishers? Image sourced from FutureStreamTV We’ve been sitting on the sidelines watching all of this NFTs (nonfungible tokens)…

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