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LiveRamp and TTD’s ID Hook Up

Last week, LiveRamp announced that its Authenticated Identity Infrastructure would support The Trade Desk’s Unified ID 2.0 (now without third-party cookies!). The biggest concern about whether identity-based universal IDs—like LiveRamp’s and TTD’s Unified ID 2.0—can be successful (and potentially save the open programmatic ecosystem from being dominated by walled gardens) is…

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A False Start for the Google Antitrust Case

Our interest in the federal government’s antitrust suit against Google took a huge dive when we learned it would be centered around search. While mainstream publications trotted out the tired descriptor “landmark” for the headlines when the suit became public, many of us in the industry shook our heads and…

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Advertising Automation Illuminated

Purple's ability to grow mattress sales 46% in Q1 can partly be attributed to changing consumer behaviors during the pandemic, but there's also a good dose of engineering ingenuity behind their marketing. They worked with AcuityAds all-new illumin platform, an advertising automation technology that offers planning, buying and omnichannel intelligence…

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Actionable Audience Data and Inventory—No Cookies Required

We spoke with Jake Abraham, President at Audigent about why he thought pubs seemed a little gun shy about identity solutions, how they should go about showcasing their first-party data as well as how Audigent plans to help them drive revenue by making their audience data and inventory actionable for…

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Are You There, Publisher? It’s Me, Apple

Hey publisher! Apple here, I know I've been cagey in the past, but I'm ready to listen to all your concerns about iOS14 and some of our other future plans. Maybe I'll let you know a bit more about the new ad network! (It's not called iAd 2.0!)

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PFV Video: Keynote Geer Dishes on Pub-Creative Team-Ups

Walt Geer, Executive Creative Director for Experience Design at VMLY&R, kicked off our inaugural Publisher Forum Virtual on Aug. 25, 2020, with an electrifying keynote the reverberated throughout the rest of the conference. In dissecting the current (sad) state of digital creative and showcasing numerous innovative campaigns, he made a…

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First-Party Data Gets a Second Look

Forget identity—edge-computing-based DMP Permutive's big play is publisher first-party data, and the company boasts bold success stories such as Digital Trends, which will share the tale behind its next-gen first-party data marketplace during a free AdMonsters webinar on Sept. 10 at 1 pm ET. To dive deeper into Permutive's views…

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IPONWEB on the State of Programmatic

We had a chat with IPONWEB's Publisher Product Lead Wenda Zhou to talk about the current state of programmatic, from header optimization tricks for pubs during the downturn to the effects of de-duping auctions, traffic shaping and SPO.

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