AdMonsters June 9, 2023 IAB Tech Lab’s Video Ad Guidelines: The Journey to Industry-Wide Implementation The IAB Tech Lab's 2022 video ad guidelines created a challenging video ad landscape for publishers, especially smaller ones. About 90% of what was considered instream inventory was labeled outstream. In addition, it restricted…
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The IAB Tech Lab's 2022 video ad guidelines created a challenging video ad landscape for publishers, especially smaller ones. About 90% of what used to be considered instream inventory was now labeled outstream. In addition, it restricted plenty of quality inventory from being labeled as instream, thus wounding both publishers'…
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June 07, 2023 Generative AI Makes for Irresistible Headlines, but at What Cost to Publishers? Speaking of AI — When Does it Infringe on Publisher IP Rights? Generative AI Makes for Irresistible Headlines, but at What Cost to Publishers? The News: Last week, the world woke up to yet another…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 2, 2023 Navigating the [Not so] Great Layoff When the economy is strong and growing, outsourcing tasks and roles to skilled and experienced specialists enables publishers to expand their capacity and grow their operations quickly. During tighter cycles, publishers can ramp down their use and cost of…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 25, 2023 What Is Supply Path Transparency & Optimization? The ad tech industry is growing on a massive scale, it is expected to grow 5.9% YoY (according to an IAB report). To keep up with such scale and the complex nature of the industry, folks should be…
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As a veteran of the ad tech industry, Brian O’Kelley has seen many changes over the years and hopes to be at the forefront of the next big change that the industry, and indeed the world, needs – a way to do business that is good for both profit and…
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As the ecosystem prepares for cookie deprecation, the analytical eye can spot this trend through the string of post-cookie solutions — data clean rooms, alternative IDs, and Seller Defined Audiences. Is this the way to go?
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The scales have tipped, and programmatic has become more of a liability than an asset. Last year, Bloomberg News made headlines when it announced it was pulling the plug on open programmatic, citing bad ads and the impact they had on the reader’s experience. We surveyed 250 consumers about the…
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Angelina Eng watched the digital media industry evolve into what it is today, and now she works with the IAB as VP of Measurement, Addressability, and Data Center.
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AdMonsters writer, Susie Stulz, has been reading Traffic, Ben Smith’s book on the start of Gawker, HuffPost, and BuzzFeed. The 2000s were heady days for “new media.” Its founders, ambitious and audacious in equal measure, figured out early on that sites that attract the most traffic win. Scorning traditional media,…
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