When it became clear in 2020, that we wouldn't be able to meet in person for a while we created virtual opportunities for Monsters to get together and share ideas. One way we did this, back in June, was to virtually recreate Publisher Forum Wednesday Workshops. Another thing we did…
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Powered by: January 05, 2021 Advertising Spend Going Up How the NYTimes Weathered 2020 2021, Say Hello to Email Ding Dong, Adobe Flash is Dead Advertising Spend Going Up Image sourced from Mediapost 2020 was a tumultuous year for publishers, but signs that we're rebounding couldn't be more clear.…
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In 2020, 3,000+ Monsters registered to attend one of AdMonsters webinars, with topics ranging from Identity to Privacy to Cookies, and more. As we come to the close of the year, we figured it was a good idea to roll up all these great webinars we had this year into…
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As we wrap up 2020, Group Publisher, Bill Amstutz, wanted to take a minute to reflect on a quality that is innate to the AdMonsters community: resilience. AdMonsters felt it was our duty to keep the digital media community talking and learning. We knew that peer-to-peer sharing was perhaps even…
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December 22, 2020 Now That's a Real Antitrust Suit Taboola to Repay Pubs Whopping $16 Million Facbook / Apple Beef Revs Up Unified ID 2.0 Gets First Pub Commitment Were Facebook and Google Colluding Against Everybody? Image sourced from Twitter If you haven’t heard the one about how Google and…
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Last year the trend was set for publishers playing a key role in ecommerce. Now, with homebound consumers shopping more online than ever, publishers are playing a critical role as we see a mass consumer shift to online shopping, with an accompanying reliance on trustworthy product reviews like Holiday Gift…
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December 16, 2020 Business as Usual at Facebook? What If Google Had No Doubleclick? Apple's Privacy Labels Are Super Scary For Facebook, It’s Just Business as Usual By now you’ve likely caught the latest episode in the saga that is Facebook: The Telenovela. Each week gets just a little bit…
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Ad Tech is a neverending world of acronyms, alphabet soup and technical mumbo jumbo. With our handy decoder ring, AdMonsters Decoder series decodes the latest terminology to enter the ad tech lexicon. This year, everyone was most concerned about privacy regulations, methods for uncovering incremental revenue, as well as what…
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In February we launched a new newsletter called The Wrapper. We spent so much time talking bout how hot newsletters are that we decided to jump on the trend! With The Wrapper, we summarize exciting news items that catch our eyes and link them to wider developments in digital media…
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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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