Maybe others saw the signs before I did, but I’ll admit to being surprised this past summer when Google announced it would be sunsetting DoubleClick Sales Manager (DSM) in 2019. On top of all the other major challenges they’re facing right now—GDPR, ads.txt, contextual relevance, Facebook, etc.—more than a hundred…
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View the presentation here. We all know there’s great power in data when it comes to digital media monetization, but unlocking the potential can be laborious, frustrating… and even fruitless. The massive amounts of data flowing throughout the digital advertising ecosystem is both a blessing and curse—it may seem plenty,…
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Not the CES update you want, but maybe the CES update you need. January brings with it cold weather, year-end reconciliations, lower post-Q4 CPMs, and CES. This year I had an audacious plan: I’d go to CES and actually go to CES. You know – the actual show, not just…
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Lift Tests: The Next Programmatic Trend? Among advertisers, especially performance advertisers, lift tests are on the rise, AdExchanger reports. Performance advertiser are feeling some heat to justify ROI for all their activities, which is why they’re looking at measuring incremental lift in whatever channels they’re spending in. One reason for…
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Discrepancies in campaign reporting may be an ever-present scourge--but let's not mistake them for a force of nature beyond anyone's control. As the digital ad ecosystem evolves and gets smarter about its business, there's more value at stake with each impression. That said, managing discrepancies can feel like a long…
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When you're as focused on digital media as we are at AdMonsters, sometimes it's important to remember the offline world still exists, and it's generating serious money for a lot of publishers who are active in it. If you're coming from the point of view of a media company with…
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This is the second article in the Native Chronicles series, brought to you with the support of TripleLift. Read the first article on the "creative revival," and the third on the future of mobile. The term “set it and forget it” is anathema to digital advertising. Whether it’s a homepage takeover, pre-roll video,…
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A World Without CPG Spend? Okay, maybe we shouldn't be bracing for a world without CPGs dollars, but maybe we should be ready for a substantial reduction in their digital spending. Procter & Gamble famously slashed its digital ad spend by $100 million earlier this year and cut off the…
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For years, the digital advertising world was entranced by the potential of increasing automation, but now the pendulum is swinging back toward that human touch in ad deals. That means publishers need to revisit the best ways to manage direct-sold campaigns in a complex contemporary digital paradigm. Campaign reporting is…
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While it’s always has been a major part of the revenue professional’s work, user experience has greatly risen in prominence over the last few years. That’s thanks to a variety of issues: the ad block scare, the viewability movement, rising mobile traffic, and so on. The days of haphazardly slapping…
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