May 06, 2021 PulsePoint Grab Gives Internet Brands In-House Programmatic Pipes Apple Vs. Everybody: Part II Around the Water Cooler PulsePoint Adds Programmatic Pipes to Internet Brands’ Health Ad Arsenal Two quick thoughts came to mind when we saw the news that Internet Brands was acquiring health-focused ad tech platform…
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In this keynote video, from Publisher Forum Virtual Spring 2021, Lisa Ryan Howard, SVP, General Manager, Media explains how The Times is focusing on fewer, higher quality ads and using its first-party data to offer targeting based on emotional states and reader motivations to provide more powerful ad experiences.
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Over the course of 2020, revenue and ad ops leads increasingly found themselves collaborating with new contacts within brands and agencies. They also had to come up with hacks and lean on solution providers to help create engaging ad experiences that enticed users (and drove performance). And as we continue…
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Maybe it’s the “larger than life”-sized player personalities. Maybe it’s the rabid, easy-to-amass audience segments. Or maybe it’s some marvelous combination of the two — but sports media brands are cashing up and turning pandemic-driven shifts in content consumption into new pathways for revenue generation.
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April 27, 2021 Is iOS 14.5 a Bridge to Rebuilding Consumer Trust? Around the Water Cooler Yeah, We Know iOS 14.5 Is Bad, but Maybe It's a Bridge to Rebuilding Consumer Trust Image sourced from Apple Are you enjoying all of those privacy popups? Maybe you're one of those people…
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If you’ve looked at your Facebook ads data recently, you might be worried about your dwindling conversion insight. Starting with Safari and Mozilla’s default blocking of cross-site tracking since the release of ITP 2.1, continuing with the rollout of Limited Data Use that limited tracking in California to comply with…
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During our April 22, 2021 webinar, Unlocking a Creative-First Approach to Social Display, Nikki Gertner, Senior Product Manager at Celtra and our own Rob Beeler dug into why publishers should look for more functionality — whether that's the ability to make content "shoppable" or even just build out time-saving templates…
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Jason White, SVP and Head of Publishers, LiveRamp, and Chris Pirrone, General Manager, USA TODAY, Sports Media Group, take AdMonsters Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson, on a deep dive discussion into the world of publisher first-party authentication strategies. "If cookies were the currency before, the gold is that relationship with…
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April 22, 2021 Core Web Vitals Rankings Get Pushed Back a Bit Hey FLoC, Get Off My Block Around the Water Cooler Core Web Vitals Gets Pushed Back (and Most Sites Don’t Rank Well Yet Anyway) If Google’s new Core Web Vitals benchmarks for the “page experience” became the standard…
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In preparation for our upcoming webinar with Permutive: Vox Media’s Approach to a Changing Media Landscape, Tuesday, April 27, 1 PM ET, (Register now!), I spoke with Michael Ogunjobi, Customer Success Lead, Permutive, about how publishers can fully maximize the value of their first-party data and demonstrate that value to…
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