In 2023, AdMonsters spoke with industry experts about the feasibility of green digital advertising campaigns, and the steps required of all players for our industry to achieve net zero. As Earth Day approaches, we revisited the topic to assess progress, identify new threats to carbon reduction goals, and explore critical…
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Prioritizing user experience is crucial in designing an online advertising strategy. Overloading users with excessive or annoying ads can push them towards ad blockers, while too few ads might lead to a dip in revenue. eyeo's ad filtering technology is key to achieving an ideal equilibrium, ensuring both user satisfaction…
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Jounce Media released its March 2024 RTB Supply Path Benchmarking Report. In AdMonsters' opinion, the data shows some troubling trends for mid-market publishers, many of whom are already facing revenue loss due to the loss of cookie signals and search referral traffic from Google SGE.
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AdMonsters April 4, 2024 Ad Spending Will Jump More Than Anticipated in 2024 According to several US forecasts, 2024 promises to be a banner year for advertising. Last December, IPG Mediabrands predicted that ad spend would grow 8.4% this year, but last week, its research arm, Magna, raised its…
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AdMonsters March 28, 2024 AdMonsters Ops Reveal: James Rosewell on Disrupting Digital Monopolies and the Future of Online Privacy In our quest for the perfect keynote speakers for AdMonsters Ops, we wanted industry leaders who were not afraid to expose what's going on behind the curtains, and James Rosewell…
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A group of publishers logged onto their ad account, seemingly attaining millions of ad dollars in minutes. After some ad experts investigated the programmatic ad auction, they found that some advertisers were bidding at rates as high as $1 billion. The error was a brief server anomaly at Pubmatic.
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This week's Wrapper features highlights from one of our keynotes at Publisher Forum Austin, Burhan Hamid, CTO at TIME, who shared his vision on the evolving role of AI in publishing during his talk, The Publisher's AI Advantage: Leveraging the Power of AI to Stay Ahead of the Curve. We…
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The digital advertising landscape is undergoing a monumental shift towards privacy-first practices, underscored by the Privacy Sandbox initiative and the critical findings from the “IAB Tech Lab's Privacy Sandbox: Fit Gap Analysis for Digital Advertising." It paints a picture of an industry at a crossroads, facing the challenge of reimagining…
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Last week, the IAB Tech Lab released a comprehensive report detailing the challenges of Google's Privacy Sandbox. In response, Google thanked the IAB Tech Lab for showcasing their perspective but asserted that their "analysis contains many misunderstandings and inaccuracies, which we consider important to correct in order to provide accurate information…
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The IAB Tech Lab’s Privacy Sandbox Demo Tool, donated by Index Exchange, was developed to showcase Protected Audience API (PAAPI), a component of Google’s Privacy Sandbox. Using the tool, any ad tech professional can run through a demonstration of PAAPI to see how user interest groups are created and how…
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