It's an age-old question: client-side or server-side, or presumably both? Client-side, while a definite improvement over the waterfall, does have its shortcomings. It increases the audience match rate, but at the expense of latency. And then server-side reduces latency, but at the expense of the match rate. We asked Evgeny…
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Now that ad spend is starting to pick back up, sellers and buyers have an eye toward the future. What will happen when the cookie crumbles? What will take its place? What will become of mobile attribution? Will OTT and CTV continue to rise? Oh, so many questions. Well, here's…
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In 2020, 3,000+ Monsters registered to attend one of AdMonsters webinars, with topics ranging from Identity to Privacy to Cookies, and more. As we come to the close of the year, we figured it was a good idea to roll up all these great webinars we had this year into…
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The year 2020 has been a wild ride for digital media and ad tech. It was a year of great uncertainty, overshadowed by privacy regulations like CCPA and CPRA and privacy updates being made in Google Chrome and Apple iOS. And all the while, everyone was prepping (or confused about…
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Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson, recently chatted with Garrett Johnson—a marketing professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. His research focuses on privacy, the value of cookies, and the effectiveness of advertising. She was interested in a presentation he made to the W3C about the Economics of Digital Ad…
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Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway had a chat with ID5's CEO, Mathieu Roche, about how to differentiate between identity solution providers, the benefits of joining ID5's Inside community, as well as what it will take to rebuild probabilistic’s reputation.
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As we inch closer toward a cookieless world, identity solutions have been touted as the perfect panacea. But before going all in on one identity solution over another, wouldn’t it be prudent to weigh all of your options? You wouldn’t invest all your money in one stock, would you? So why…
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Privacy regulations; the crumbling third-party cookie; a general need to diversify revenue streams. These are just some of the factors driving publishers to better—and directly—engage with consumers. And a key tool helping publishers connect is an old favorite—logins. But although they may seem straightforward, logins and the strategies around them…
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With the announcement of the end of the third party cookie, now is the time to shift the balance of power back to publishers. A strong first-party data strategy empowers publishers to go on the offensive and recoup lost revenue.
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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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