Last 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.
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Supply-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.
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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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A new dark traffic study from Ad-Shield reveals 976M users are blocking ads without detection—and 57% didn’t choose to.
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For this edition of the AdMonsters' Publisher Spotlight, Kara Chiles, SVP of product management at Gannett and the USA TODAY Network gives a deep dive on the publisher's AI strategy.
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Media quality is no longer a guessing game. From ad-to-content ratio to carbon impact, new signals are giving publishers and buyers a clearer picture of value—and it’s changing the way programmatic works.
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Bloomberg laid off about a dozen staffers as part of a global restructuring effort—a notable move for a company that many have seen as a steady force in an unpredictable media economy.
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The DOJ is taking on one of the most powerful players in digital advertising. In its high-profile antitrust case against Google, the DOJ argues that the tech giant used its dominance across the ad tech stack to suppress competition.
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With ad revenues squeezed and competition fierce, publishers today face a defining choice: evolve or be outpaced. PMPs aren’t optional; they’re essential for publishers who want to thrive amid shifting market dynamics.
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At Supernova PRIDE, industry leaders turned the Cannes conversation on its head. From travel media to fandom to AI ethics, here are eight takeaways that prove inclusive innovation is good for culture—and business.
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