What is zero-party data? Ask ten people (well, not ANY ten people; ten adtech dweebs) and you’ll get ten different answers—along with some medium-to-heavy ridicule. Zero-party data is still a relatively new concept (having been coined a scant three years ago), and adtech likes to take its time settling into new ideas.…
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November 23, 2021 Privacy Has A Three-Body Problem Hey Meta, Leave Those Teens Alone WarnerMedia Launching Nielsen Competitor in 2022 Online Privacy’s “Three-Body Problem”? MaxwellMolecule, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons We love to hope and believe that things are sacred and protected online — like one’s privacy —…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 19, 2021 Why Digitized Ad Sales are Mission Critical for Future Revenue Growth Today's publishers have to mitigate quite a bit of friction in order to breeze through revenue goals. There's friction between different platforms for campaign tracking, forecasting, and reporting — not to mention the tools…
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November 16, 2021 Apple's Google Play Store Ad Spend Switcheroo In Search of Nielsen Alternatives Ad Targeting Like the Weather Apple Buys App Ads on Google to Grab Publisher Revenue Photo by Artem Podrez from Pexels Apple wants a big piece of that subscription revenue share, so much so that…
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November 12, 2021 IAB Europe Breached GDPR AI Powers Globe and Mail Paywall IAB Europe in Breach of GDPR Google and countless other advertisers rely on IAB Europe’s consent management system, which has now been deemed in violation of GDPR. “IAB Europe designed the misleading ‘consent’ pop-ups that feature on…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 12, 2021 Putting Contextual in Context: Can Standardized Definitions and Taxonomies Lead to Scale? Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider…
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Lotame's latest “Beyond the Cookie” report is out. There’s so much uncertainty and concern is high on all levels. Key reports findings include: Forty-eight percent of publishers predict a downsizing in workforce due to third-party cookie deprecation.
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Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider about the practice of segmenting and analyzing content. So in advance of our upcoming Revenue Strategy Session,…
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November 03, 2021 Apple Didn't Hit Twitter's Revenue Is Spotify Gunning For the Number 4 Spot? Twitter Flies Away from Apple’s Revenue Hits Many companies felt the brunt of Apple’s privacy changes earlier this year, but Twitter was not one of them. Its quarterly revenue went up 37%, causing stock…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 5, 2021 The Future of Publisher Revenue Operations: Benchmarks & Best Practices From third-party cookie deprecation to ColoPA, CCPRA, Apple, and the looming antitrust pressure on Google and Facebook, the business of digital publishing is being rebuilt. And while there’s no such thing as a crystal ball,…
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