The ad industry is changing, and so is Cannes Lions. With header bidding altering the way agencies do business, branded content in high demand, and GDPR doing... whatever it's doing, publishers and ops people are in the Cannes conversation more than ever. Yep, as Gavin Dunaway explains, Cannes is AdMonsters…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 21, 2018 Three Pillars of Ad Quality: Beyond Redirects It's not your imagination—the redirect problem has been peaking in 2018. Publishers are turning to sandboxing as a fix. But sandboxing is only the beginning, considering redirects are just one of many ad quality concerns that need to…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 14, 2018 Let's Have Some Fun: Photos and Tweets From Ops 2018 Ops 2018 was a learning experience, and a deep one. But the cool thing about Ops is, we have fun with it. We pulled some of the best on-site photos and Tweets from June 4-5…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 7, 2018 AdMonsters Playbook: Demand Partner Evaluation and Ad Quality We listened to the conversations publishers had about how they're treating relationships with demand partners. We launched a survey for pubs to tell us more. And now!... This new playbook, developed with GeoEdge, lays out new ground…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 31, 2018 Ops 2018: The Hour Is Nigh! Ops 2018 is right around the corner, coming June 4-5 to the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC. While you're getting amped for six simultaneous tracks of sessions, don't snooze on these: Our midday main-room panel features Lee Brown (BuzzFeed), Keith…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 24, 2018 AdMonsters Announces the 2018 Power List Your peers have spoken, your nominations have been pored over, and now the AdMonsters 2018 Power List has been announced. We'll be honoring the 58 people who made the list, for professional excellence and influence in digital media and…
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A new TechTarget report shows branding really makes a difference in B2B campaigns. But that requires quality data—and fortunately, publishers have that. Here's another chance for pubs to make good on the value of their data.
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The deadline for GDPR compliance is looming, and the trades continue to chide publishers for not being prepared enough. But considering the interpretation of the regulation has continually changed—and now Google has limited the number of ad tech vendors pubs can list in its consent management tool—Brian LaRue asks: How…
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We caught up with Kind Ads advisor Neil Patel—cofounder of well-known brands Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics—to find out the thinking behind a decentralized ad network, as well as just how it leverages blockchain to cut out intermediaries, offer enhanced data security for pubs and advertisers, and deliver non-irritating ads.
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The Honest Ads Act was introduced to Congress in October 2017 and hasn't been passed as of March 2018. But the call for Facebook to be more transparent about who's paying for political ads on its network brings it back into the spotlight. Here's what the act proposes, and what…
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