Jig’s up, guys. The new book “Subprime Attention Crisis,” by Tim Hwang, former Global Public Policy Lead for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Google, says the ad tech bubble is going to go pop just like the subprime mortgage market a dozen years ago.
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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…
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In May, Criteo submitted SPARROW (Secure Private Advertising Remotely Run On Webserver) to the W3C in response to Google's privacy sandbox proposal. In response to industry-wide feedback, SPARROW was recently updated to include reporting capabilities to further secure users’ privacy without compromising advertisers’ performance. We spoke with Charles-Henri Henault, VP…
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March 31, 2020 Ad Spend Not Dry Yet 💦 Vertical Spending Trends Covid-19 Force Majeure Begins Bad Actors Prey on Battered Publishers Facebook to the Rescue Ad Spend Hasn’t Dried Up Yet Publishers probably feel like they’ve been placed under quarantine by their advertisers lately, and new data from an…
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In the war of streaming video, the gap between winners and losers depends on how well a publisher delivers on SVOD's promise—a data-driven business in which content is more personalized and the ad targeting capabilities are better than digital, or even TV. Viewer behavior can tell you what people want…
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Bad ads are a pretty terrible thing for the entire ad ops ecosystem. By 2025 ad fraud—malvertising redirects and malicious IBV to name a few—will cost advertisers more than $50bn, accounting for 30% share of the overall digital market, so warned The World Federation of Advertisers back in 2016. But…
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Shy little Rob Beeler was quite nervous at his first PubForum in 2004, but he did learn a ton from the knowledgable nice guy he sat next to. Fourteen years later, that guy—Twitch SVP of Revenue Scott Newton—is the Monday morning keynote at 2018 Portland PubForum. Rob muses on the…
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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…
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We’ve long been big header cheerleaders at AdMonsters, but we also have never shied away from one of its biggest setbacks: potential latency issues. Indeed, fear of latency has kept some premium publishers away from header integrations and continues to make others wary about embracing header tech too closely. At…
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I don’t want to sound like an alarmist, but if you think it’s hard for publishers to bend to the whims of Google and Facebook to get their content out to a mass audience, just think for a few seconds about what it might be like playing ball with ISPs…
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