These 5 Data Trends Will Totally Reshape Ad Operations—hopefully for the Better

Privacy regulations, cookieless web, identity resolution, the value of first-party data, better personalization—are just some of the many data trends shaping publishers' strategies today. The road ahead is being paved as much by user and governmental concerns as it is by the duopoly and other significant players in the ad…

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Will Blockchain Solution Providers Tame the Cannes Lion?

The road to Cannes is paved with many changes this year. You can certainly expect to see and hear a fair amount from companies developing next-generation media, marketing, and advertising solutions underpinned with blockchain and cryptography. Solutions are scaling; we are past the point of test and learn. Another change…

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Blockchain Leads the Transparency Brigade: Lucidity’s Miguel Morales

During its short time bouncing around the ad-tech echoplex, blockchain has already run the full hype cycle: from "the next big thing" to "running joke" and now "potentially legit." Tech startups are finally deploying actionable and scalable solutions to a variety of problems, meaning you don't look hip at parties now when you scoff at blockchain. One…

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Webinar Replay: Unlocking the Hidden Web and Delivering Data-Driven Revenue

Following the path Apple trail-blazed with its mobile Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP), more browsers are blocking (or threatening to block) third-party cookies as well as limiting the usefulness of other tracking tools. While this is creating chaos in programmatic markets that lean heavily on cookies and third-party data, publishers with…

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Google Chrome’s Native Lazy Loading iFrames May Not Be So Great For Advertising

In the next version of the Chrome browser, Google is set to release a native lazy loading feature for images and iframes, which will start on mobile and work its way on to the desktop. AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler, recently held a conference call with publishers to learn more about…

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Does the Network Television Upfront Still Matter in a Digital World?

The long-standing ritual of TV network television upfront presentations are now running for the 2019-2010 season, with the major networks wrapping up these showcases from Monday, May 14 through Thursday, May 17, 2019. New programming is presented to affiliates and buyers, and a window is opened for buyers to secure…

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The New GAM Auction Logic

Many a publisher has gotten lost in pondering the ramifications of Google Ad Manager's move to first-price auctions and introduction of a "unified auction."In gauging the effect of this enormous industry shift, we've got to start with what we know—namely, what is actually changing. Cafe Media's Paul Bannister decided a…

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If the Shoe Fits: Complex Networks Runs With a Different Revenue Model 

“We haven’t always been a big fan of programmatic or arbitrage-oriented stuff,” says Rich Antoniello, Founder and CEO of digital media company Complex Networks. During his Ops 2019 Leadership Forum keynote address, “Getting Out of Our Own Damn Way,” on Monday, June 3, Antoniello will host a no-holds-barred conversation about how programmatic…

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Optimizing to Attention: Parsec Media Introduces Adelaide

Parsec Media CEO and Founder Marc Guldimann hinted that Parsec was actually building a new tool that crunched attention data in real time for brand and performance campaign optimization—a sort of white-label version of the company's internal optimization engine. The eagle has landed: Adelaide offers advertisers a dashboard with insights…

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Don’t Be Timid About SIMID: Dragging Digital Video Standards Forward

I can’t imagine a lot of publishers crying at the funeral for VPAID (Video Player Ad-Serving Interface Definition), the IAB video standard meant to streamline the use of interactive elements in digital video that was hacked for a host of functions—some benign, others less so. With the arrival of IAB…

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