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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This January 15, people across Iowa will gather to caucus, officially kicking off the 2024 election cycle. Political campaigns and PACs are expected to pour $10 billion into political ads in an attempt to sway voter behavior. Much of that will be spent online. We already see troubling issues on…
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Publishers, SSPs, and DSPs need to work together to ensure all parties get what they need from one another. However, publishers often lament the lack of transparency and the slow evolution of SSPs. At Publisher Forum New Orleans, a DSP, an SSP, and a publisher all came together on one stage…
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A staggering $10 billion will pour into the political advertising arena with the goal of swaying American voters during the 2024 Election cycle. While $10 billion is a boon for digital media stakeholders, that money comes with severe risks. Publishers must undertake the critical task of determining whether specific advertisers…
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The UK Online Safety Act imposes a "duty of care" on any platform or service that's used or accessed by UK citizens. Duty of care means that media and social media companies will be held responsible for any harmful content on their sites.
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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, we hosted a session, Digital Media Smackdown: Buy-Side V. Sell-Side Programmatic Data Gap and how sellers and buyers can improve their practices, how the ad tech industry will look with fewer intermediaries, and how to maneuver the complex programmatic supply chain.
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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.
Read MoreAdMonsters November 10, 2023 Making Programmatic Easier for All with a Meta DSP Long before MediaMath shut down, Mike Hauptman and Dan Bougourd were intrigued by the idea of building a meta DSP. They both joined MediaMath in the company’s early days, but by 2018, they were itching to…
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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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