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Hot Topics, Straight Talk: A 2025 Year-End Rundown with Jounce Media’s Chris Kane

Chris Kane, founder of Jounce Media, joined AdMonsters for a lively conversation dissecting this year's buzziest trends, the latest developments in the Google antitrust trial, and what keeps publishers up at night.

Trust Is the New Publisher Playbook — And the 2026 Advantage

As discovery shifts toward AI and platform traffic becomes less dependable, trust and diversified revenue give publishers an edge. Mediavine’s Amanda Martin explains how to plan for 2026.

What The Programmatic Industry Should Expect In A Changing Google Ecosystem

For over a decade, Google has been the gravitational center of programmatic advertising, dominating search, ad serving, analytics and measurement. But recent DOJ court rulings mark the end of Google’s unchallenged dominance.

How BOMESI and Breakr Are Helping Black Creators Get Paid Faster

BOMESI licensed Breakr’s tech to create its SASA platform, a digital infrastructure that centralizes publisher management and financial workflows.

AI in Ad Tech: Is It Evolution, Revolution, or “Too Early to Tell”?

James Deaker, aka The Yield Doctor, outlines how AI is reshaping ad ops—from incremental improvements to major workflow shifts and the emerging unknowns teams should keep an eye on.

The Programmatic Pub Tech Partnership That Paid Off

How Hearst Newspapers and Aditude modernized ad ops, unified data, accelerated decisions, and turned collaboration into revenue results.

MediaMint’s AI Agent Puts A Fresh Spin On Simplifying Ad Ops

MediaMint designed the new agentic AI product, Mia. Think of Mia as a set of customizable AI tools built to streamline ad ops, assist media planning, and automate campaign grunt work.

AI Is Quietly Redefining How Users Find and Engage With Content

In the past, users entered the web through Google or social platforms. Now, many are entering through a single AI interface that can deliver personalized results without needing to visit multiple sites.

Making On Site Vertical Video Work for Publisher Engagement and Ad Revenue

Publishers are now testing it on their own sites to capture the attention of swipe-happy audiences while keeping more ad dollars in-house. We spoke with Trusted Media Brands and Media.net about this practice.

Is Ad Growth Moving Too Fast? 10 Signs Your Ad Ops Team Is Overwhelmed

Operational complexity in media agencies doesn't emerge overnight. By the time leadership recognizes the cracks, teams are often already bogged down in inefficiencies that directly impact productivity, margins and client satisfaction.