AdMonsters July 16, 2020 Sellers Need Buy-Side Transparency Transparency concerns have long plagued open advertising markets, scaring away participants on the buy and sell-side of open real-time bidding advertising transactions. The buy-side has ads.txt and sellers.json. Unfortunately, sell-side participants—publishers—often have difficulty obtaining basic levels of transparency in reverse when…
Read More
Transparency concerns have long plagued open advertising markets, scaring away participants on the buy and sell-side of open real-time bidding advertising transactions. The buy-side has ads.txt and sellers.json. Unfortunately, sell-side participants—publishers—often have difficulty obtaining basic levels of transparency in reverse when using header bidding tools to extend demand.
Read More
In the wake of the ISBA Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study, there was immediate focus on who was most adversely affected, as well as the mysterious unknown delta. While these are interesting data points, MightyHive's Head of Media Activation, Rachel Adams, was taken aback by another issue—how difficult it was…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 18, 2020 Webinar Replay: Personalization With a Push In this video recap of our webinar with Powerinbox, Personalization With a Push, publishers Max Dennis, Director of Audience Development, Assembly and Chip Schaible Director of National Account Sales, IQVIA join Powerinbox's CEO Jeff Kupietzky to discuss their experiences…
Read More
June 16, 2020 Google’s Rather Opaque Sellers.Json A Glimpse of Recovery Where CCPA Comes In and Goes Forth Another Round: Facebook Vs. Australia Roku Takes on Amazon, Linear TV Google’s Rather Opaque Sellers.Json Image Source Jounce A year after the first Sellers.json file appeared, Google has finally deigned to join…
Read More
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…
Read More
This week's edition of The Wrapper is arriving in your inbox on Wednesday while we're on location at PubForum in Santa Monica. Next week, we'll return to our regularly scheduled Tuesday mailings. March 11, 2020 Coronavirus Climbs Blocked Keyword List Maryland's Digital Ad Tax 404bot Steals Millions in Ad $…
Read MoreAdMonsters September 26, 2019 Unified Auction Brings High Anxiety to GAM City Before the news of Google’s ad department reorganization broke, publishers had already been getting quite itchy over the machinations of Google Ad Manager. Now outgoing Director of Product Development Jason Bigler officially announced in a blog a few…
Read MoreAdMonsters October 23, 2019 WarnerMedia’s Amit Chaturvedi Embraces Rebirth, Renewal of His Career “We have more content and more ways to consume content than in the history of time. If you’re in this business, the moment of time we’re in right now will be written in the annals of…
Read More
It’s a well-known fact that publishers lose over $1 billion per year from just malvertising alone. That number doesn’t even account for the total sum of dollars lost to other ad quality issues like redirects, non-compliant ads, data leaks and the like. In 2019, ad quality issues were awfully problematic…
Read More