July 19, 2018
Capturing That Elusive SMB Spend
Facebook reels from another tornado of scandals, yet their advertising business is going gangbusters. Seems weird, right? Well, no—the Duopoly thrives on small and mid-size advertisers that can't find viable alternatives in digital media. But Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway sees an opportunity to grab a slice of that pie at the intersection of programmatic direct and publisher alliances.
Pub Demand Partners Get a Haircut
We've been hearing at Publisher Forums for a while now that pubs are shedding demand partners rather than on-boarding them. Now we've got the data to back it up—and the drop is dramatic. Oh, and guess who else is doing a bit of culling? Advertisers are shaking loose DMPs fast.
The Dream of PubForum Is Alive In Portland
Quite an agenda has come together for our Portland Publisher Forum from Aug. 12-15. Folks from the likes of NBC Universal, Slate, Timehop, Digital Trends and more are going to reflect on KPIs, audience extension, pixel management post-GDPR, mobile app monetization, and a whole bunch of other topics you've been dying to discuss. Act fast—the final spots are going faster than you can put a bird on it.  
Top Stories
You can point to your specs, you can point to LEAN, but getting compliance from the buy side is still a challenge. So what should an overall framework for creative compliance look like? Brian LaRue explores the importance of working proactively to block bad ad creatives before they hit the site.
It's been reported this week that 1,400 mobile apps loaded ads on TV Guide's domain. How did this happen, in an age when everyone's on board with Ads.txt? Well, the answer is simple, but it's not what you want to hear: The buyers just hadn't been scanning those Ads.txt files often enough.
Rob Beeler learns the true meaning of rubbernecking, and he's here to tell us how it relates to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica/data privacy problems, GDPR preparation (or lack thereof), and buzzworthy tech like blockchain and AI.
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