Building a Monetizable Kid-Safe Internet: A Conversation with SuperAwesome’s Dennis Colón

We heard an old dear friend, Dennis Colón, who we knew from his days as an ad ops exec at Conde Nast and CBSi had recently joined SuperAwesome as VP of Global Operations. SuperAwesome’s technology powers safe digital engagement with the under-16 crowd, enabling 12 billion monthly transactions, including safe…

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Battling the Gatekeeper for the Future of Advertising

October 13, 2020 Ad Tech Says No to Google Gatekeeper Role Is There a Happy Medium to Publisher Data Leakage? OTT/CTV Ad Spend Up—Despite Pandemic Should Google Be the Gatekeeper? Image by Lothar Dieterich from Pixabay Much of the future of advertising is being discussed in W3C meetings every week,…

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The State of DOOH in Coronavirus Times

On the eve of DPAA's 2020 Video Every Summit, senior editor, Lynne d Johnson, spoke with the organization's president and CEO, Barry Frey, about the role DOOH played during the early days of the pandemic and how advancements in data and technology are positioning the industry to reap its just…

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Webinar Replay: Is This the Rebound?

This wide-ranging, intimate discussion brought together a panel of revenue specialists from the US and Europe to talk about what publishers are expecting during the fourth quarter, how they’re preparing for an uncertain future beyond that, and how their audience relationships are evolving. Watch the video now!

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Advertising Automation Illuminated

Purple's ability to grow mattress sales 46% in Q1 can partly be attributed to changing consumer behaviors during the pandemic, but there's also a good dose of engineering ingenuity behind their marketing. They worked with AcuityAds all-new illumin platform, an advertising automation technology that offers planning, buying and omnichannel intelligence…

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Tackling Ad Tech’s Diversity Problem

We caught up with Alicia Ray, Founder of The Ad Tech Collective, a community for Black people in ad tech to network and learn from one another within ad tech. She was a participant on the Minority Report Podcast Live session and she has some great ideas about how companies…

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Deciphering Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway

October 06, 2020 Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Europe's Programmatic Revenue Grows—Despite GDPR Deciphering Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Image sourced from Google Google is opening its big fat wallet to news publishers, with the intention of giving away $1bn in licensing fees over the next three years. The announcement was made in…

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The Ad Tech Bubble Is Set to Burst (For Real This Time!)

Jig’s up, guys. The new book “Subprime Attention Crisis,” by Tim Hwang, former Global Public Policy Lead for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Google, says the ad tech bubble is going to go pop just like the subprime mortgage market a dozen years ago.

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You Gotta Sell Self-Serve

It’s Think Tank season for AdMonsters and this past week we caught up with a number of publishers to talk through a range of topics thanks to ADvendio. The pubs that joined us were what I would classify as mid-sized publishers–their operations teams are relatively small. It was interesting to…

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Dotdash’s Recipe For Success

September 29, 2020 Dotdash's Recipe for Success ANA Pushes for Federal Privacy Regs Can Media Take on the Big Boys? Only 14% of Advertisers Satisfied with Decisioning Solutions Dotdash Has the Recipe for Success Image sourced from Data: Dotdash; Table: Naema Ahmed/Axios While many publishers are floundering to stay alive…

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