Cloudflare’s AI Tollbooth: Innovation or Gatekeeping?
When Cloudflare announced it would start blocking Perplexity AI's stealth crawling, it became a formidable gatekeeper of the open web.
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SiriusXM’s Brittany Warren Dishes On Offshoring Strategy And Managing Third-Party Vendors
After elevating through a company merger and several promotions, Brittany Warren, Director of Client Services at SiruisXM, now focuses on managing offshoring and emerging solutions.
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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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ArcSpan Raises $5.2 Million To Accelerate Publisher Tool Kit For First-Party Data
The publisher monetization startup ArcSpan raised $5.2 million in a seed extension round Wednesday. It will use the fund to invest in its tool set, which simplifies how publishers can use their first-party data.
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AgentMark Says AI-Enabled Ad Ops Means Less Dashboard Wrangling, More Decision-Making
Wentao Xiao, co-founder and CEO of Cactivate, started the company to help small brands get the most out of their customer acquisition campaigns. But the company evolved into an AI-powered campaign optimization solution.
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Why Publishers Matter In A World of AI
Generative AI threatens the very future of the open web and the publishers that sustain it, but there can be a future where publishers thrive by recognizing what they offer that AI cannot.
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How Gannett’s Kara Chiles Aims to Turn AI Experiments Into Real Value for Readers and Advertisers
For this edition of the AdMonsters' Publisher Spotlight, Kara Chiles, SVP of product management at Gannett and the USA TODAY Network gives a deep dive on the publisher's AI strategy.
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Don’t Wait for the DOJ—Fix the Ad Stack Now
The DOJ is taking on one of the most powerful players in digital advertising. In its high-profile antitrust case against Google, the DOJ argues that the tech giant used its dominance across the ad tech stack to suppress competition.
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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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Can You Monetize Without Cookies? Most Publishers Can’t—Yet.
More than half of publishers say they aren’t monetizing cookieless traffic effectively—especially on Safari and Firefox. This research report and playbook—created in partnership with Intent IQ—uncovers how publishers are tackling identity today. You’ll find actionable insights on segmentation, taxonomy, PMP packaging, and testing frameworks to improve yield across all traffic…
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