As the digital world embraces AI's power, publishers can harness this technology to their advantage. David DiAngelo, VP of Global Marketplace Development at Emodo, contends that the ongoing AI race is reshaping the power balance in search, potentially disrupting the search advertising industry and influencing publishers' traffic sources.
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We spoke with Julie Clark, SVP of Media & Entertainment, TransUnion, to dissect the future of cable television in a world dominated by streaming, marked by both challenges and opportunities. As the lines between traditional linear models and streaming continue to blur, we explore the impact on publishers, evolving revenue…
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In an auction to purchase MediaMath, Infillion emerged as the highest bidder with a whopping $22 million bid. According to Business Insider, Infillion plans to restore the DSP, recruit former MediaMath employees, and seek out former clients such as Macy's, Sanofi, and Staples.
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What a difference a few business quarters make! Back in Q1, all anyone could talk about was an impending recession. The advertising industry expected to take a massive hit as advertisers cut their spending and focused on retail media platforms. We may still have a recession, although as of this…
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All of the bloat in the supply chain has been caused by a lack of understanding that the internet and any website is an ecosystem. We have been building the web ecosystem in silos not realizing that when we make changes in one place it has an impact on the others.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the company of signing users up for Prime without their knowledge. Now, when any website only provides a halfway decent ad experience, they can fall on the crutch of, "At least I didn't sign my users up for a…
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The ad tech industry is growing on a massive scale, it is expected to grow 5.9% YoY (according to an IAB report). To keep up with such scale and the complex nature of the industry, folks should be prepared to also face the unique challenges that come with it. Transparency…
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AdMonsters writer, Susie Stulz, has been reading Traffic, Ben Smith’s book on the start of Gawker, HuffPost, and BuzzFeed. The 2000s were heady days for “new media.” Its founders, ambitious and audacious in equal measure, figured out early on that sites that attract the most traffic win. Scorning traditional media,…
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The Trade Desk must build ad products that can buy ads on e-commerce websites and successfully pitch advertisers to use The Trade Desk to get a large chunk of the e-commerce spend.
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"BuzzFeed News was a social media ecosystem company, and the ecosystem went away," said a former BuzzFeed exec. "HuffPost was a pre-social media company that BuzzFeed eclipsed in the social media age. And then as social media goes away, the tide comes out, but HuffPost is still kind of there…
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