AdMonsters AI Roundup 2025: The New Publisher Reality
In 2025, artificial intelligence went from something publishers talked about in abstract terms to have a direct impact on the numbers that matter most: traffic and revenue.
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The NYT Boasts Promising Results After One Year Testing Its BrandMatch AI Product
The New York Times now has a full year under its belt running BrandMatch. I caught up with Valerio Poce, the NYT’s executive director of ad product marketing, to see what’s working, what’s hype and what’s ahead.
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Reworking the Publisher Stack: The Top Publisher Stories That Shaped 2025
2025 forced publishers and ad ops teams out of passivity and into strategic survival mode. Our eight most popular articles of 2025 reflect how publishers navigated each challenge and where the industry might go next.
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What the IAB Tech Lab’s Latest CTV Standards Mean for the Sell Side
The IAB Tech Lab: the released its CTV Ad Portfolio. It standardizes six popular CTV ad formats, including pause ads, menu ads, screensavers, in-scene placements, squeezebacks, and overlays.
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The Best Of This Year’s Sell Side Summits: Three Takeaways Publishers Need To Know
In 2025, AdMonsters transformed our Publisher Forum into the Sell Side Summit. But we still covered the highs and lows of the digital publishing business. Here’s a recap of the lessons we learned.
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California Dreamin’ Of Privacy: What The Opt Me Out Act Means For Publishers
California’s new Opt Me Out Act ushers in a one-click, browser-level opt-out that will reshape how publishers monetize audiences and manage data.
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How Publisher Cohorts Help Sites Band Together To Fight Traffic-Stealing AI
For this week’s newsletter, we’ll dive deep into the topic of publisher cohorts. It’s a subject that Justin Barton, CEO of AdGrid Media, brought to our attention at an AdMonsters Sell Side Summit a few years back.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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