Cloudflare’s AI Tollbooth: Innovation or Gatekeeping?
When Cloudflare announced it would start blocking Perplexity AI's stealth crawling, it became a formidable gatekeeper of the open web.
Read MoreWhen Cloudflare announced it would start blocking Perplexity AI's stealth crawling, it became a formidable gatekeeper of the open web.
Read MoreAfter elevating through a company merger and several promotions, Brittany Warren, Director of Client Services at SiruisXM, now focuses on managing offshoring and emerging solutions.
Read Morellms.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.
Read MoreLast week in New York, more than 80 media leaders, platforms and tech vendors gathered as part of an IAB Tech Lab working group to discuss AI platforms scraping their content without permission and compensation.
Read MoreSupply-side platforms are experiencing a reckoning. After years of coasting on the industry’s growth wave, they’re waking up to a brutal reality: Publishers have stopped buying their promises and started demanding proof.
Read MoreNew AdMonsters and Intent IQ research reveals a critical gap in publisher monetization strategy. While 55% still rely on open exchanges for cookieless traffic, they admit it’s not working. See how top publishers bridge the gap with identity solutions and Deal ID packaging.
Read MoreThe publisher monetization startup ArcSpan raised $5.2 million in a seed extension round Wednesday. It will use the fund to invest in its tool set, which simplifies how publishers can use their first-party data.
Read MoreWhen you consider the rising costs of ad-free streaming, the shift to ad-supported platforms isn’t all that surprising. Monthly ad-free access to the top eight US streaming services now costs roughly $122.
Read MoreAdButler’s Robert Janes lays out the case for owning your audience, launching your own media network, and finally reclaiming control from middlemen who’ve had their hand in your pocket for too long.
Read MoreWentao 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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