From Apartment Therapy’s sponsor-backed tools to MotorTrend’s interactive awards and Digital Trends’ AI gamification, publishers are finding fresh ways to keep audiences engaged. Here’s how they’re turning stickiness into loyalty—and loyalty into revenue.
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llms.txt is the velvet rope between your content and AI crawlers. Here’s how ad ops can turn it into AI-safe inventory, enforce compliance, and turn crawls into cash.
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Wentao Xiao, co-founder and CEO of Cactivate, started the company to help small brands get the most out of their customer acquisition campaigns. But the company evolved into an AI-powered campaign optimization solution.
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Offerwall for Google Ad Manager (GAM) allows readers choose how they unlock articles—watch a quick ad, answer a short survey, drop a micro-payment, or sign up for a subscription.
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At Cannes Lions 2025, the real buzz wasn’t just about AI — it was about culture, community, content, and connection. Here's how brands, content creators, and publishers can tap into human moments to truly resonate.
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Somewhere between an advertiser’s media plan and the publisher’s page, a lot of money seems to disappear. It slips through the cracks of the ad tech supply chain.
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Ad ops teams are stuck in a loop of manual chaos—and automation might be the only real way out. Here's how publishers are reclaiming time, strategy, and purpose by fixing order-to-cash from the inside out. In advertising operations, the burnout is baked in. Juggling inventory, screenshots, pacing, tags, billing, makegoods—it’s…
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For three weeks, Marketecture Media CEO, veteran ad tech executive and podcaster Ari Paparo sat in a Virginia courtroom listening to testimony in the US Department of Justice’s landmark antitrust case against Google.
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Look, I know the IAB Tech Lab has been a thorn in your side. You’ve raised your hand in working groups, waited on specs that stalled, and wondered—was any of this really built with publishers in mind? You’re not alone. But last week at the IAB Tech Lab Summit, it…
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Glenda Bautista Baker, Senior Director of Product at Penske Media Corporation; Steph Layser, Worldwide Head of Publisher Ad Tech Solutions at AWS; and Hélène Parker, Founder of Hélène Parker Consulting—shared practical insights about what it takes to lead teams, integrate automation, develop others, and stay current in a rapidly shifting…
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