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…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 24, 2020 The Current State of Media and What’s Next For 2021 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…
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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…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 17, 2020 Life Beyond the Page: Cashing in on Publisher Brand Cache The latest trend in profit and brand expansion is not isolated to the music industry. It’s the writing on the wall for what media companies should and need to do with their brand prowess. What…
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Did you miss PubForum+ last week? It's ok, we won't berate you for missing one of the hottest digital media and advertising events of the year. We decided to share a couple of highlights from the event publicly. And aren't you lucky that Complex Networks CEO, Rich Antoniello's Keynote, Tomorrow's…
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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…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 3, 2020 Pubs Want More Financial Assurances From SSPs As we move closer to the end of Q4, pubs are experiencing a rebound of sorts but it hasn't halted their concerns about payments. Pubs are looking for assurances (and insurance) from their SSP partners that they won’t…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 25, 2020 Complex Runs With a Different Revenue Model “We haven’t always been a big fan of programmatic or arbitrage-oriented stuff,” says Rich Antoniello, Founder and CEO of digital media company Complex Networks. During his PubForum+ keynote, “Tomorrow's Publisher Today,” on Tuesday, December 8, Antoniello will share how…
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“We haven’t always been a big fan of programmatic or arbitrage-oriented stuff,” says Rich Antoniello, Founder and CEO of digital media company Complex Networks. During his PubForum+ keynote, “Tomorrow's Publisher Today,” on Tuesday, December 8, Antoniello will share how the company’s multiprong strategy of building a fervent community, revenue diversification, and…
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Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson, recently chatted with Garrett Johnson—a marketing professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. His research focuses on privacy, the value of cookies, and the effectiveness of advertising. She was interested in a presentation he made to the W3C about the Economics of Digital Ad…
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