While there are multiple reasons for the growing inefficiencies in the ad buying process, one of the fundamental reasons can be traced to the widespread adoption of header bidding. When publishers first began using header bidding strategies in the mid-2010s, it immediately led to rapid growth in the number and…
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Powered by: July 7, 2021 Data Export Crackdown Underway Supply Chain Validation Gets a Boost How WFH Shaped Ad Blocking Big Tech, Hot Seat Around the Water Cooler Senator Plans Crackdown on Ad Tech Data Sharing With Foreign Adversaries The global real-time bidding (RTB) ad marketplace is a hotbed…
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June 30, 2021 Are IP Address Signals Disappearing? The Audio Boom Continues Around the Water Cooler Forget the Cookie — What About the Potential Loss of IP Address Signals? Will ad tech ever catch a break? Probably not anytime soon. Third-party cookies are near death, there’s more unknown than known…
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The Google third-party cookie crackdown might be on pause, but that's not stopping pubs from testing likely alternatives. Fox Entertainment owned, ad-supported video-on-demand service, Tubi now joins a growing list of publishers supporting Unified ID 2.0 as “the first CTV publisher to implement Unified ID 2.0 to solve for the…
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Now that the third-party tracking cookie will remain on life support, at least for another year, what's next for publishers? While many ad tech industry insiders feel strongly that most cookie alternatives weren't exactly ready for the cookiepocalypse anyway, most all agree that it's definitely not time for publishers to press…
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By now, you know that the Chrome third-party cookiepocalypse is staved off for at least another year. The reasons are many …. CafeMedia’s Paul Bannister outlines how difficult it’s been to get the user-tracking alternatives off the ground. Meanwhile, Mike Juang at Ad Age posits that buy-side pressure spurred the delay. …
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Between mounting privacy regulations and privacy enforcement measures being taken by big tech, publishers are in need of simple solutions that ensure consent compliance (and that they can trust). And even when publishers are doing the right thing and following the law, they may find themselves liable for a non-compliant…
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Publishers are already using what they know about their audiences to fuel their editorial, but those very same insights can be used to power advertising and revenue as well. Leveraging your first-party audience data, you can build a scalable direct-sold program around premium ad packages that resonate with your audience…
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Conversations about the impact of heavy ads on load times and the end-user experience are nothing new to the digital publishing industry. Still, many in the business were caught off guard in Fall 2020 when Google Chrome launched Heavy Ad Intervention (HAI) to identify and block ads from the Chrome…
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How will publishers make money in a cookieless world? Should publishers be worried about UID and FloC? What is VRM and will it bring home revenue? In a recent AdMonsters webinar with Admiral, publishers discussed the use of VRM (visitor relationship management) and ways publishers can prepare for UID (universal…
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