What Is llms.txt and Why Should Ad Ops Care About It?
llms.txt is the velvet rope between your content and AI crawlers. Here’s how ad ops can turn it into AI-safe inventory, enforce compliance, and turn crawls into cash.
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Still Feeding the Open Exchange? Here’s What It’s Costing You
New AdMonsters and Intent IQ research reveals a critical gap in publisher monetization strategy. While 55% still rely on open exchanges for cookieless traffic, they admit it’s not working. See how top publishers bridge the gap with identity solutions and Deal ID packaging.
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Can’t Knock the Hustle: Inside AdMonsters Ad Ops Dream Team
Amid tech disruption and publisher shakeups, these eight ad ops pros have the kind of hustle you can’t stop. Meet the AdMonsters Dream Team of 2025.
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Taking Ad Ops Out of the Weeds: The Stillness Isn’t the Move in the Age of AI
Maybe AI isn’t taking over ad ops. Maybe it’s elevating it. From prompt engineering to creative alignment and data stewardship, ops teams are moving from the weeds to the frontlines of strategy. Here’s what it takes to keep up.
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Eight Ways Supernova PRIDE Put Inclusive Leadership Into Practice
At Supernova PRIDE, industry leaders turned the Cannes conversation on its head. From travel media to fandom to AI ethics, here are eight takeaways that prove inclusive innovation is good for culture—and business.
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The Culture, the Content, the Connection
At Cannes Lions 2025, the real buzz wasn’t just about AI — it was about culture, community, content, and connection. Here's how brands, content creators, and publishers can tap into human moments to truly resonate.
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It’s Gonna Be the Year of AI for the Next Five Years
Grant Gudgel, SVP of Marketing at Verve, reflects on how the AI narrative at Cannes Lions has shifted from theoretical buzz to practical use cases, smarter segmentation, and long-term strategy.
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What Podcasting Gets Right About Attention (Even If the Budgets Don’t)
At Cannes Lions 2025, Sounds Profitable’s Bryan Barletta explains why podcasting still hasn’t reached its ad spend potential, despite capturing the attention of audiences across platforms.
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What Hilton Gets About Storytelling That Most Brands (and Publishers) Miss
Dan Reynolds, Hilton’s SVP of Global Content, Media, and Partnerships, explains how the hospitality giant became a storytelling machine—powered by creators, AI, and an in-house brand team that knows its story best.
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Turns Out Ad Ops Needs Automation More Than Anyone
Ad ops teams are stuck in a loop of manual chaos—and automation might be the only real way out. Here's how publishers are reclaiming time, strategy, and purpose by fixing order-to-cash from the inside out. In advertising operations, the burnout is baked in. Juggling inventory, screenshots, pacing, tags, billing, makegoods—it’s…
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