Cookie Cutoff Could Mean Publisher Layoffs

Lotame's latest “Beyond the Cookie” report is out. There’s so much uncertainty and concern is high on all levels. Key reports findings include: Forty-eight percent of publishers predict a downsizing in workforce due to third-party cookie deprecation.

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Putting Contextual in Context: Can Standardized Definitions and Taxonomies Lead to Scale?

Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider about the practice of segmenting and analyzing content. So in advance of our upcoming Revenue Strategy Session,…

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Twitter Ducked Apple’s ATT Hits; Spotify’s Podcast Growth 📈

November 03, 2021 Apple Didn't Hit Twitter's Revenue Is Spotify Gunning For the Number 4 Spot? Twitter Flies Away from Apple’s Revenue Hits Many companies felt the brunt of Apple’s privacy changes earlier this year, but Twitter was not one of them. Its quarterly revenue went up 37%, causing stock…

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A Publisher’s Guide to Supply Path Optimizations: A Case Study

Supply Path Optimization (SPO), aka finding the most direct route to a publisher’s inventory, sounds like an activity that’s best left to the world’s DSPs. After all, they’re the ones with the AI-powered algorithms that focus on winning ad placements for advertisers. SPO actually requires teamwork amongst all parties, especially those…

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Is Google Double Dipping?; Did Google and Facebook Collude Against Apple?; How Apple’s Privacy Changes Really Hurt

October 27, 2021 Is Google Taking Double? Google and Facebook Colluded Against Apple? How Apple's Privacy Changes Actually Hurt Google Takes Double What Competition Takes For Ad Deals? Talk about inflating ad deals. In an unredacted lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, it…

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The Future of Publisher Revenue Operations: Benchmarks & Best Practices

From third-party cookie deprecation, to ColoPA, CCPRA, Apple and the looming antitrust pressure on Google and Facebook, the business of digital publishing is being rebuilt right now ... pixel by pixel. And while there’s no such thing as a crystal ball, AdMonsters has partnered with Jeeng to come up with…

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How SANDOW Media Increased Revenue and CTRs With Premium Ad Experiences in Email

In a recent AdMonsters webinar with LiveIntent, How Pubs Are Increasing Revenue While Delivering Premium Ad Experiences In Email, Bobby Bonett, VP, Digital, SANDOW shared how SANDOW streamlined workflows while delivering dynamic ads with more granular targeting and personalization, and most importantly how they’re realizing 15X greater CTR than with…

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Newer Players Dive Head First Into Ad Tech’s Race to the Bottom

October 13, 2021 The Race to the Bottom Continues Marketers Still Eating the Cookies? The Race to the Bottom Continues We all love loads of irrelevant ads littering our in-app experience,s don’t we? Don’t we? And aren’t they all just great for the industry overall? Aren't they? Well, that seems…

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Ad Tech’s Cookie Education Gets the Funny Treatment

September 30, 2021 Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education The Funny Treatment WaPo's Digital Ad Network Finally Comes to Life Amazon Follows Apple’s Lead but Is It in the Wrong Direction? Around the Water Cooler Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education the Funny Treatment   It’s hard for…

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The Future of the Internet Is Complicated

September 23, 2021 The Future of the Internet Is Complicated FTC Coming After Big Tech and How It’s Built The Future of the Internet Is Complicated Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Apple, Google and Facebook really know how to throw a party. We’ve got pop-up ads on our Apple…

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