The Targeting and Metrics Evolution: Are Publishers Ready for Attention’s Dominance?

2024 promises to be a year of rapid innovation, with publishers rethinking what’s possible. From looking at attention as The New Metric to driving higher attention rates with Innovative Ad Formats & Ad Placements to harnessing the power of their first-party data to leaning into Indirect Monetization partners and ensuring…

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage: Hearst’s Lacey Gutierrez — Advocating Privacy in the Media Landscape

Lacey Gutierrez's father influenced her connection to her culture and her career trajectory, but it was her own hard work and tenacity that catapulted her to become a Counsel at Hearst.

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Understanding the Gaps Between Marketers and Consumers in the Post-COVID Era

During iHeartMedia's AudioCon 2023, Conal Byrne, CEO of iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group, sat down with author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell to examine this growing consumer marketing disconnect. They discussed the results of a Morning Consult and Advertiser Perceptions study that examines the growing divide between consumer values and behaviors and…

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The Big Debate: Is In-Housing Dead?

Is In-Housing dead? It's probably not. But voices around the digital media industry have been telling us how businesses approach in-housing is changing.

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Customer Centricity: The Key To Retail Media’s Successful Future

While there is a ton of opportunity in the retail media world, there are still challenges. Those opportunities and challenges were top of mind at the 2023 IAB Connected Commerce Summit: Reimagining Retail Media event, where industry experts expressed their views on prioritizing consumers' needs and the importance of privacy…

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The DOJ Launches Attack Against Google’s Alleged Monopoly

Federal regulations have attacked Big tech monopolies from all sides, but if the Government comes out on top, this could be the first nail in the coffin. For a long time, the duopoly — Meta and Google — hoarded around 85% of ad spend, but privacy regulations took some of…

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How Can Publishers Unlock AI Opportunities to Preserve Revenue and Drive Growth?

As the digital world embraces AI's power, publishers can harness this technology to their advantage. David DiAngelo, VP of Global Marketplace Development at Emodo, contends that the ongoing AI race is reshaping the power balance in search, potentially disrupting the search advertising industry and influencing publishers' traffic sources.

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month With IAB’s Jeffrey Bustos: The DEI Champion, The Retail Media Expert, and The Thought Leader

With his current role as the VP, Measurement, Addressability, and Data Center at IAB, Jeffrey Bustos is now in the position to guide industry-wide change — driving some evolutions in the ad tech ecosystem and championing diversity and inclusion. 

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Navigating the Power of Data-Driven Attribution: A Call for Transparency, Expertise, and Understanding

The recent decision by Google's GA4 to deprecate numerous attribution models, nudging marketers toward Data-Driven Attribution (DDA), has sparked considerable debate in the advertising community. While the crux of the matter is the black-box nature of DDA — we're unsure of its internal workings — a more profound issue lies…

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The “New Rules” of Video Stories and Advertising: Q&A with Connatix’s Anthony Gonsalves

Don’t think that only the largest and most sophisticated publishers can do video well. According to Anthony Gonsalves, SVP and Head of Global Business Development at Connatix, all publishers can — and should — embark on their video journeys. What’s more, they’re likely to succeed, as long as they follow…

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