With steady increases in consumer streaming hours, creating engaging video content that excites and delights users and doesn’t interrupt their experience is paramount. Johanna Bergqvist, VP of Strategic Partnerships, Ex.co talked to us about leveraging user experience strategies into higher CPMs and inventory value to build credibility and trust with your…
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In late October 2019, I authored an AdMonsters article with a list of existing, new, and soon-to-launch streaming services showing how they fit into the OTT ecosystem. Then, Covid-19 arrived and the migration that might have taken years took place in months. Now 53% of video viewing on all devices…
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As 2021 comes to a close, it's time to reflect on the top trends that set the tone for digital media and ad tech throughout the year. From Chrome's on-again, off-again cookie cutoff to Apple's privacy updates to mass confusion surrounding developing solid first-party data and identity strategies to the…
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Now that third-party cookies are going to take a little longer to expire and Google’s FLoC Origin Trials have sent the tech giant back to the drawing board, a lot of publishers are thinking they can start resting on their laurels. That would be a big mistake. There’s actually no…
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With impression data pulled directly from Google Ad Manager over the course of 2020 — including transaction trends, global viewership insights, and even details about live streaming performance — Google Ad Manager's Session on Advanced TV at our recent PubForum Virtual didn’t disappoint. It also covered some best practices for…
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It can’t be overstated how much of a hit in revenue publishers took in 2020. In its “Outlook for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising in 2021” report, Winterberry Group estimates the decline in global ad spend at ~$39b compared to 2019. We caught up with the report's author, Bruce Biegel to learn…
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Now, with the rapid migration of audiences to CTV platforms just as CTV paid and ad-supported channels have exploded on the scene in 2020, both viewers and advertisers are further challenged. Here are some of the latest developments with reach and message frequency in CTV and OTT, as well as…
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With the growing tragedy that is the pandemic, numerous businesses, including advertising, experienced great challenges. The emergence of AI, the excitement around 5G, expectations put on Out-Of-Home, and other trends we all thought would become the cornerstones of 2020 were dramatically swept aside by COVID-19. Let's take a closer look…
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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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We heard an old dear friend, Dennis Colón, who we knew from his days as an ad ops exec at Conde Nast and CBSi had recently joined SuperAwesome as VP of Global Operations. SuperAwesome’s technology powers safe digital engagement with the under-16 crowd, enabling 12 billion monthly transactions, including safe…
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