This week's edition of The Wrapper is arriving in your inbox on Wednesday while we're on location at PubForum in Santa Monica. Next week, we'll return to our regularly scheduled Tuesday mailings. March 11, 2020 Coronavirus Climbs Blocked Keyword List Maryland's Digital Ad Tax 404bot Steals Millions in Ad $…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 13, 2020 How Publishers Can Boost Direct-Sold Revenue With Ad-Juster's Competitive Benchmark Tool, FlowIQ After years of playing guessing games about the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their direct-sold advertising, publishers now have a way to compare their individual performance against others in the industry with Ad-Juster's…
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Part I of our overview of Reach and Frequency in the emerging Digital T/V landscape will cover the basics of the media planning and buying formula that has served as a key analytical tool even before television converged with digital video to become T/V (Television/Video). We'll also look closely at…
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Back in 2018, there was a lot of hype about blockchain saving advertising and Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson was riding the wave—high. Now that the hype is over, there are actually quite a few projects proving every day that blockchain and related technologies like cryptography and permissioned ledgers can…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 5, 2020 How Will an Entire Industry Unlearn Ad Tech 1.0? "Ad Tech 2.0 won’t offer marketers nearly as much access to deterministic, user-level, and cross-site/cross-app data as they’ve grown accustomed to. In many cases, user-level data will dry up completely," says Myles Younger, Senior Director of…
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As AdMonsters embarks on our 50th Publisher Forum Conference, we reached out to four ad ops vets (we'll call them AdMonsters Luminaries) for their reflections on what it means to be an AdMonster and what PubForum has meant to them and their careers. Let's take a walk down memory lane…
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March 03, 2020 Coronavirus Impacts Digital Advertising Subscription Fatigue Brave Most Privacy-Friendly Browser CTV Ad Share Triples Digital Advertising Stricken With Coronavirus? If you’re not busy constructing homemade NP95 masks or getting into fistfights over the last bottle of Purell at the pharmacy, you might wonder to yourself, “Hey—how is…
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"Ad Tech 2.0 won’t offer marketers nearly as much access to deterministic, user-level, and cross-site/cross-app data as they’ve grown accustomed to. In many cases, user-level data will dry up completely," says Myles Younger, Senior Director of Marketing, MightyHive. "No matter what “Ad Tech 2.0” ends up looking like, hundreds of…
Read MoreAdMonsters February 14, 2020 Battling the Rising Mobile Ad Blockers: Q&A With Blockthrough's CEO Marty Krátký-Katz Adblocking may have dwindled on desktop, but users are massively taking up arms on mobile. AdMonsters spoke with Marty Krátký-Katz, Co-Founder & CEO of ad-block monetization platform Blockthrough, about the findings from his…
Read MoreAdMonsters January 16, 2020 Opening a New Programmatic Gateway: Adhese's Post-Cookie Connectors It's the perfect moment for outside-the-box thinking in the open programmatic marketplace as the third-party cookie continues to crumble in the face of privacy initiatives (and regulations) and walled gardens increasingly reap the lion’s share of online…
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