There’s a certain amount of volatility inherent in programmatic advertising — it is based on auction dynamics, after all — which is why many publishers rely on standards like Prebid to help balance out some of the chaos. So we caught up with Tom Levesque, VP Product Management, OpenX, to…
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The upcoming loss of third-party identifiers within Chrome, and the changes that Apple has already made in that space, means that first-party data is in a strong position. Losing cross-domain identifiers only strengthens publishers’ first-party data, as a viable option for advertisers to continue reaching consumers. And this first-party data can…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 8, 2021 The Future—and Present—of Bidstream Efficiency Lies with Traffic Shaping While there are multiple reasons for the growing inefficiencies in the ad buying process, one of the fundamental reasons can be traced to the widespread adoption of header bidding. When publishers first began using header bidding…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 1, 2021 Tubi Becomes First CTV Pub to Implement UID 2.0 The Google third-party cookie crackdown might be on pause, but that's not stopping pubs from testing likely alternatives. Fox Entertainment owned, ad-supported video-on-demand service, Tubi now joins a growing list of publishers supporting Unified ID 2.0…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 24, 2021 Crumbling Cookies and a Rotten Apple: A Sophie’s Choice for Pubs By now, you know that the Chrome third-party cookiepocalypse is staved off for at least another year. The reasons are many …. CafeMedia’s Paul Bannister outlines how difficult it’s been to get the user-tracking alternatives…
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By now, you know that the Chrome third-party cookiepocalypse is staved off for at least another year. The reasons are many …. CafeMedia’s Paul Bannister outlines how difficult it’s been to get the user-tracking alternatives off the ground. Meanwhile, Mike Juang at Ad Age posits that buy-side pressure spurred the delay. …
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Between mounting privacy regulations and privacy enforcement measures being taken by big tech, publishers are in need of simple solutions that ensure consent compliance (and that they can trust). And even when publishers are doing the right thing and following the law, they may find themselves liable for a non-compliant…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 17, 2021 Best Practices for Monetizing Native Ads in Your Email Publishers are already using what they know about their audiences to fuel their editorial, but those very same insights can be used to power advertising and revenue as well. Leveraging your first-party audience data, you can…
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1:00 pm — 2:00 pm EST You’ve heard about ABM … but what about ABL? Always Be Learning … Introducing the AdMonsters Revenue Strategy Sessions, a new content series that offers a taste of the peer-to-peer learning you get at a real world AdMonsters event, with the convenience of livestreamed,…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 10, 2021 Publishers Navigate the Weight of Heavy Ad Intervention Conversations about the impact of heavy ads on load times and the end-user experience are nothing new to the digital publishing industry. Still, many in the business were caught off guard in Fall 2020 when Google Chrome…
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