AdMonsters March 28, 2019 AdMonsters Playbook: Combining Location-Based Context and Programmatic Scale This playbook is for publishers, brands, and marketers who are looking for a snapshot of how location and programmatic fit together to create market-changing, consumer-forward approaches. In addition to helping publishers and advertisers understand the nuances of…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 21, 2019 Publisher Forum Miami 2019: Ad Ops Innovation is People A constant theme at Publisher Forum Miami 2019 focused on innovation in ad ops being driven by people—and not machines. And that’s whether we’re talking about customers or the ad ops teams making the magic of…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 14, 2019 Building Community Trust and Leadership Blavity Inc. Breaks the Media Mold At a time when the media is regularly under a litany of changes, publishing powerhouse and entrepreneurial advisor, Morgan DeBaun, CEO & Founder Blavity Inc. is moving full steam ahead. Blavity Inc. is her…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 7, 2019 Surviving the GDPR/CCPA Squeeze: Sourcepoint's Ben Barokas on CMPs and Regulatory Compliance Such is the publisher’s lot—as soon as you start feeling confident you’ve covered your bases on GDPR, you're trying to prepare for whatever the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will look like (it’s…
Read MoreAdMonsters February 21, 2019 How Can Publishers Tell a Better Audience Story? For years publishers have sold advertising targeted around specific content, using available first-party data as the basis for establishing value around the opportunity. That value proposition is built around the scale of the audience, which boils down…
Read MoreAdMonsters February 15, 2019 Shall We Kill All the Resellers? A recently reported fraud leveraging Ads.txt isn't novel, but it highlights an issue with exchanges that’s been lurking on the edges of debate, while also raising serious questions about the future of auction-based programmatic. Read more. 4 Lessons For…
Read MoreAdMonsters February 7, 2019 CCPA: Land of Confusion Digital media is looking forward to another year of impending doom as a fresh piece of confounding privacy regulation hangs over the space. The CCPA, which will affect any company that touches the data of at least 50,000 Californians a year,…
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For any publisher, edge computing is becoming the only way to process data in a privacy-compliant way. User data is (by design) protected because it never leaves the device. This means a publisher can process data in a world without cookies and with increased government regulation (even under its strictest…
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“The death of the cookie has been greatly exaggerated,” claimed Jason Bigler, Google Ad Manager Director of Product, near the beginning of the 2019 Ops event in New York. You could hear the sighs across the Metropolitan Pavilion, feel the collective shrug of acknowledgement pass through the gathered crowd. Yeah,…
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At the 2019 Ops conference, a somewhat unexpected word echoed throughout the sessions, from the morning keynote to the final talk: community. The idea of audience is out of date, and the term too limiting. Publishers and brands need to be thinking about their visitors, viewers, readers, users, consumers, and…
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