"When we think about who is vulnerable in #adtech, I'd turn the question on its head and say, 'Who's not?'" I've been impressed by Richard Kramer, Founder of Arete Research, since I saw him spar with tech-opinion-maker-at-large Scott Galloway and suggest big tech like Google and Facebook were never going…
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It’s hard to believe it’s only been four weeks of Work From Home (WFH). The good news is that at many companies, this ‘Plan B’ for daily operations is working well. At least that's true at Digital Trends. The publisher is still producing content, delivering advertisers' KPIs, and productivity remains…
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April 14, 2020 Private Equity Looms Over Local Media DSP Defaults Insurance Consumers Prefer Do-Gooder Brands Gaming Is Media’s Bright Spot Twitter Strips Away Privacy Controls CCPA Enforcement Extension Unlikely Private Equity Looms Over Local Media’s Sickbed Photo by Davide Baraldi from Pexels As local news publishers get beat down…
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At the 50th Publisher Forum in Santa Monica, Next Management Partners CEO Jimmy Hutcheson—also now the CEO of SPIN—had a candid conversation with AdMonsters Editorial Director, Gavin Dunaway, about private equity and digital media—the attraction to the space, what revenue channels appear most lucrative, and why some private equity relationships…
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"More often than not, my role on a panel is that of moderator and it’s my job to ask the questions and create the narrative," says AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler. A couple of weeks ago, however, I got invited to be on a panel hosted by Admiral and the Local…
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April 08, 2020 Relax the Brand Safety Crusade Coronavirus Ad Ban Eases Up Amazon Cuts Affiliates Paywalls Rise Again Recession Retrospective 4As Says Relax the Brand Safety Crusade Before most of the US was cooped up in its homes feverishly scrolling through news sites, overzealous leveraging of brand safety technology…
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With millions of people worldwide now homebound from Coronavirus and screentime increasing exponentially, for those publishers and advertisers that are willing to gamble on an industry that’s comparatively wet behind the ears, odds are esports is a winning hand. In fact, Twitch reports an increased usage of both gaming and…
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Overall, ad tech has been and will continue to be a success story, but marketers would be smart to scrutinize the parts of ad tech that may not hold up as well anymore, such as clunky products, questionable campaign measurement, and gold-plated prices. Marketers facing the pressures of even a…
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So, you’re working from home now? (Go team #WFH!) For some of us, this is simply business-as-usual, but for many more, it’s likely your first time in this situation. With this in mind, AdMonsters brought together a group of ad operations professionals to discuss the unexpected move to working from…
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So, publisher—you keep hearing that the demise of the third-party tracking cookie is going to work out in your favor… But how exactly? It’s not like marketers were in love with the third-party cookie either—marketers have long wanted a better solution, and that’s people-based marketing, OpenX and LiveIntent explained during…
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