Back in April 2019, Christine Maguire joined Tripadvisor to lead the company's global media strategy and operations, and to better leverage the company’s international consumer demand and to drive revenue through new digital advertising solutions. Then COVID-19 hit. And the world of travel came undone. Leading up to her PubForum…
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We caught up with AdMonsters Publisher Forum Virtual Keynote Walter T. Geer III to learn about how he's connected the dots between what he learned in his early ad ops days to now being an agency creative and how ad ops is breeding ground for innovation and the jumping-off point…
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On Wednesdays at Publisher Forums, we let the attendees "take over" the conference. Attendee volunteers lead informal sessions with their peers on a variety of topics, and then report major takeaways to the whole group. Through the magic of technology (cough, Zoom, cough), we ran an experiment where we took this…
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"We're at a point now where we're going to have to focus on that one-to-one relationship," says mobile expert Elgin Kim, Partner, Lab1492. In this wide-ranging fireside chat with AdMonsters Chairman Rob Beeler, Kim explores the biggest operational and date challenges in apps and mobile web currently while tapping into the most…
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At the 50th Publisher Forum in Santa Monica, Next Management Partners CEO Jimmy Hutcheson—also now the CEO of SPIN—had a candid conversation with AdMonsters Editorial Director, Gavin Dunaway, about private equity and digital media—the attraction to the space, what revenue channels appear most lucrative, and why some private equity relationships…
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So, publisher—you keep hearing that the demise of the third-party tracking cookie is going to work out in your favor… But how exactly? It’s not like marketers were in love with the third-party cookie either—marketers have long wanted a better solution, and that’s people-based marketing, OpenX and LiveIntent explained during…
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Publishers add more ads per page and lower their floors to capture more revenue, hoping to ride things out until higher CPMs return. Unfortunately, more ads, lower floors, and other desperate moves lead to more opportunities for bad actors to step in. And users will adopt blockers to maintain a…
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The first CCPA Class Action was filed against clothing retailer Hanna Andersson and Salesforce and California's Attorney General has modified proposed regulations. And still, CCPA remains just as confusing as ever. That's why we brought privacy expert—Jessica B. Lee, Partner and Co-Chair of Privacy, Security & Data Innovations at Loeb…
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Self-service ad operations and media sales is really trending right now—Spotify, Hulu and Hearst are all doing it. At the recent PubForum in Santa Monica, Peo Persson, Co-Founder and CPO, DanAds, talked about the latest self-service ad operations and showcased how it could make publisher’s lives a little easier. We…
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50th Publisher Forum Keynote Jamie Gutfreund came to AdMonsters with an interesting idea—she's currently a special advisor for SuperAwesome, which specializes in "kidtech" that enables brands to safely engage with younger audiences... You know, the ones that publishers have to be super cautious about targeting and collecting data from lest…
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