The 2018 edition of the AdMonsters North American Publisher Salary Survey is coming soon! We surveyed over 400 respondents from across the US working in ad operations in broadcast, digital, print, mobile, social and retail and learned that while 56% were somewhat satisfied with their compensation, 84% would consider changing…
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Were you worried that blockchain was all hat and no cattle? Look again—the decentralized ledger is disrupting the payments landscape while also overhauling reconciliation. At the same time, Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson points out a huge (but surmountable) challenge: speed.
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In its eye-opening new report on ad quality , Confiant finds that 1 out of every 200 ad impressions from the open exchanges is malvertising. If 1 trillion ads are being served through the open marketplace monthly, Confiant estimates that 5 billion are malicious. Make sure you have smelling salts…
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5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Edmunds EdQuarters 2401 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, CA 20404 Just when publishers thought they had their GDPR liabilities under control, California threw the ad tech industry a curve ball with the California Consumer Privacy Act—consumer data security regulation that on first look could be much…
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The widespread availability of location data has long been the central lure of the mobile advertising space, but to be successful in an increasingly competitive mobile space, advertisers and publishers need to be thinking beyond location to an array of data points, including uses, transactions, and patterns over time. Verve…
Read MoreAdMonsters September 20, 2018 Podcast Advertising Is Only Ramping Up Some seemingly grim news from Buzzfeed and Panoply threw a wet blanket on the excitement that's been building around the podcasting space. While there may be a content glut, the advertising is just starting to awaken its potential. Editorial…
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It's not your imagination—most malvertising attacks do happen over weekends. Bad actors hope to catch ops when its guard is down, so the gatekeepers must always be vigilant. A robust ad-quality solution is an essential tool for a publisher, but finding the right one requires a great deal of due…
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Header bidding is great for publisher revenue, but nasty to a DSP's tech infrastructure. That's why DSPs are making decisions about SPO, trying to sort out the "best" queries. Are you okay with DSPs making those decisions for you? If not, read this...
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We know some of you are still patting yourselves on the back for coming out the other end of the GDPR launch unscathed, but this is ad tech, folks—the next crisis is always coming sooner than you expect. The sunsetting of Google's order management system DSM means an order management…
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We’ve long been big header cheerleaders at AdMonsters, but we also have never shied away from one of its biggest setbacks: potential latency issues. Indeed, fear of latency has kept some premium publishers away from header integrations and continues to make others wary about embracing header tech too closely. At…
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