December 22, 2020 Now That's a Real Antitrust Suit Taboola to Repay Pubs Whopping $16 Million Facbook / Apple Beef Revs Up Unified ID 2.0 Gets First Pub Commitment Were Facebook and Google Colluding Against Everybody? Image sourced from Twitter If you haven’t heard the one about how Google and…
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After 118 years, the AAA brand has come to mean reliability and responsiveness. It continues to increase its membership and other powerful brands seek to align with AAA to gain from the glow of this trusted American institution. But the changing culture, habits, and behaviors of younger Americans prompted AAA…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 17, 2020 Life Beyond the Page: Cashing in on Publisher Brand Cache The latest trend in profit and brand expansion is not isolated to the music industry. It’s the writing on the wall for what media companies should and need to do with their brand prowess. What…
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In February we launched a new newsletter called The Wrapper. We spent so much time talking bout how hot newsletters are that we decided to jump on the trend! With The Wrapper, we summarize exciting news items that catch our eyes and link them to wider developments in digital media…
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The year 2020 has been a wild ride for digital media and ad tech. It was a year of great uncertainty, overshadowed by privacy regulations like CCPA and CPRA and privacy updates being made in Google Chrome and Apple iOS. And all the while, everyone was prepping (or confused about…
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December 09, 2020 Amazon Is Gunning For Google's Spot Google Launches Ad Block Attack Hashed Emails Will Not Take IDFA's Place Amazon’s 2019 Ad Spend Spree Is Still Paying Off Image sourced from eMarketer The old adage: “You have to spend money to make money,” couldn’t have worked out any…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 3, 2020 Pubs Want More Financial Assurances From SSPs As we move closer to the end of Q4, pubs are experiencing a rebound of sorts but it hasn't halted their concerns about payments. Pubs are looking for assurances (and insurance) from their SSP partners that they won’t…
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We chatted with AdLedger's Executive Director, Christiana Cacciapuoti, to learn more about the problems that CryptoRTB solves in the supply chain, how it benefits both sellers and buyers, how it differs from ads.cert, and the results of tests using the protocol that prove that blockchain-based solutions can accommodate the speed…
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COVID-19 revenue losses have been extensive, prompting massive furloughs and layoffs, but on the road to recovery, publishers will be looking for ways to keep costs low without further reducing staff. Understanding when to use automation by leveraging available technology to handle repetitive and routine tasks is an effective way…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 25, 2020 Complex Runs With a Different Revenue Model “We haven’t always been a big fan of programmatic or arbitrage-oriented stuff,” says Rich Antoniello, Founder and CEO of digital media company Complex Networks. During his PubForum+ keynote, “Tomorrow's Publisher Today,” on Tuesday, December 8, Antoniello will share how…
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