According to Ebiquity and Scope 3 research, MFA sites generate around 26% more carbon waste than non-MFA sites due to all of the connections to myriad SSPs and resellers. With thousands of requests for every impression, ads placed on MFA sites have the biggest carbon footprint in the industry. MFA…
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Publishers around the world will lose $54 billion in ad revenue due to ad blocking in 2024, representing around 8% of total global ad spend. If not for ad-filtering tools that enable users to elect being shown only non-intrusive ads, those losses would be notably higher – about $116 billion.…
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To experts, OpenAI made five key governance mistakes, from its initial “weird” board structure to a small and inexperienced board making a bad decision. Time will tell if OpenAI survives as a company or if it’s absorbed into Microsoft entirely, but for now, other start-up tech companies are looking at…
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In 2023, publishers faced myriad challenges, and the path ahead to 2024 remains uncertain. Despite the difficulties publishers faced, Mike Caprio, Senior Vice President and GM, Americas, Connatix, envisions a redefined role for publishers in 2024, one teeming with promising opportunities. AdMonsters chatted with him to learn more.
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at PubForum New Orleans, Johanna Bergqvist, General Manager, The Americas, EX.CO, moderated a discussion with leaders from DailyMail.com and News Corp to find out how publishers can make their video inventory more brand-safe and appealing to media buyers so they can increase fill rates and revenue.
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After we published our article about Black-owned publishers’ concerns about being designated MFA sites, we spoke to some industry experts to understand how they define them, how to distinguish a bad site from a benign one, and to see if the industry’s standards label Black-owned publishers as MFA sites unfairly.
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In August, background actors told reporters that Hollywood studios started creating AI scans of them, without making it clear how those scans would be used. Their union wanted ironclad veto power over “digital doubles,” and minimum pay rates when AI is used to create an actor’s digital likeness.
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Marketers need to understand that multiculturalism influences and fuels mainstream marketing. Their messaging to diverse groups needs to be aligned with their mass market messaging. Brands also need culturally intelligent targeting solutions to connect authentically and meaningfully with their consumers.
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Today, we are battling a new scourge: overtourism. Social media is turning people into bad tourists. How should brands step up to help resolve this challenge?
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Amazon’s unBoxed 2023 conference has been eventful. The retailer announced a plethora of new ad tools and expansion of existing ones that are likely to impact the industry in a big way.
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