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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As AdMonsters embarks on our 50th Publisher Forum Conference, we reached out to four ad ops vets (we'll call them AdMonsters Luminaries) for their reflections on what it means to be an AdMonster and what PubForum has meant to them and their careers. Let's take a walk down memory lane…
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During her Publisher Forum Santa Monica keynote address, “Show Me, Don’t Tell Me: How Publishers Become Advertisers' Guides in a Turbulent Digital Ad Landscape,” on Monday, March 9, Gutfreund will discuss how stricter privacy laws, improving technology and shifting perceptions offer advertisers and marketers an opportunity to come together to…
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During his Publisher Forum Santa Monica keynote address, “From Ad Ops to General Management—The Power of Assembling Dream Teams to Tackle New Frontiers,” on Tuesday, March 10, Harris will discuss how his early involvement with AdMonsters set him on his ad ops path and how he’s been building high-performing teams…
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Each and every Pub Forum is an experience. AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler, sometimes wishes we didn’t call it a conference. “The AdMonsters Experience, Santa Monica 2020” sounds pretty cool, no? It’s because of this, he finds it hard to identify a “favorite Pub Forum” or “favorite location." Here’s his attempt…
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During her Publisher Forum Santa Monica keynote address, “Escaping CCPA Limbo,” on Monday, March 9, Jessica B. Lee will discuss the newly implemented (and still fluid) California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and how publishers and ad tech professionals can use the narrative of the law to build new bridges to…
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Google’s recent announcement that it would follow Safari and Firefox in eliminating third-party tracking cookies—within two years—shook the digital advertising industry like an earthquake off the Richter scale. Are you panicking at the idea that the majority of your inventory will soon lack identifiers? Are you hyperventilating about digital publishers'…
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