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What is the IAB’s Podcasting Buyer-Seller Checklist?
The idea to create the checklist first came up in an IAB Audio Committee meeting during which Brittany Clevenger, Senior Director of Audio Partnerships at top podcast advertiser BetterHelp, made a simple but powerful point about…
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The New Role of Publishers in 2024: Q&A with Connatix’s Mike Caprio
In 2023, publishers faced myriad challenges, and the path ahead to 2024 remains uncertain. Despite the difficulties publishers faced, Mike Caprio, Senior Vice President and GM, Americas, Connatix, envisions a redefined role for publishers in 2024, one teeming with promising opportunities. AdMonsters chatted with him to learn more.
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Why Actions, Not Words, Are Needed to Face the Cookieless Future
Publishers and SSPs are influenced by higher CPMs and fees and DSPs crave the audience targeting and segmentation provided by cookies. If we do not encourage the use of cookie alternative traffic in advertising today, the entire industry will take a huge step back when it becomes a reality.
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PubForum NOLA Digital Media Smackdown: Can the Buy-Side and Sell-Side Find Common Ground?
At PubForum New Orleans, we hosted a session, Digital Media Smackdown: Buy-Side V. Sell-Side Programmatic Data Gap and how sellers and buyers can improve their practices, how the ad tech industry will look with fewer intermediaries, and how to maneuver the complex programmatic supply chain.
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How Publishers are Monetizing News During Challenging Times
at PubForum New Orleans, Johanna Bergqvist, General Manager, The Americas, EX.CO, moderated a discussion with leaders from DailyMail.com and News Corp to find out how publishers can make their video inventory more brand-safe and appealing to media buyers so they can increase fill rates and revenue.
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Publishers Share Plans for the Many Unknowns of a Cookieless Landscape
A roundtable of ops leaders gathered at AdMonsters Publisher Forum New Orleans to discuss the most pressing issues facing the industry, including a cookieless future, what’s next with first-party data, and the Privacy Sandbox.
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Ad Tech Industry Experts Weigh In On the MFA Scourge and Black Publishers’ Concerns
After we published our article about Black-owned publishers’ concerns about being designated MFA sites, we spoke to some industry experts to understand how they define them, how to distinguish a bad site from a benign one, and to see if the industry’s standards label Black-owned publishers as MFA sites unfairly.
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How Can Publishers Best Gauge User Intent and Sentiment? Ask Them.
A Q&A with Ravi Mittal, Founder and CEO of Vuukle, on how publishers can leverage quizzes to build audiences, collect first-party data, and drive engagement. The demise of the third-party cookie once sent waves of fear through the digital advertising ecosystem, but not anymore. That’s because, in the years that…
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Creators Lose Ground to Big AI; Google Updates AdSense Rev Model; Did Brand Safety Kill Jezebel?
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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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 bring programmatic advertising to the mid-market advertiser.
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Buyers Still Paying for Ads When TVs Are Off; The AI Executive Order
Buyers suspect that streaming publishers are less than transparent in their reporting, despite promises made last year by GroupM and others.
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