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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Speaking of transparency—or the lack thereof—plenty of questions linger around the FBI raiding a major holding company's offices as it steps up its investigation into rebates and kickbacks in digital advertising. Gabe Greenberg suggests that if we're going to circle the wagons as the g-men close in, the industry should…
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Has Rob Beeler only been at AdMonsters for 10 years? It seems like he has always been the caretaker... As he scratches notch no. 10 on his AdMonsters belt, he takes a moment to contemplate how the industry has developed over the last decade. Spoiler alert: today's digital media landscape…
Read MoreAdMonsters October 11, 2018 Video Programmatic Guaranteed Rises On a recent panel I moderated with some pretty impressive ad tech representation (if I do say so myself), my panelists were oddly uniform in arguing that programmatic guaranteed for digital video—especially served on connected TV or OTT—is the most exciting emerging…
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On a recent panel I moderated with some pretty impressive ad tech representation (if I do say so myself), my panelists were oddly uniform in arguing that programmatic guaranteed for digital video—especially served on connected TV or OTT—is the most exciting emerging transactional platform. Why? Because it's easy, I argue...…
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Read MoreAdMonsters October 4, 2018 Spread of Bad Ads Pretty Terrible, Confiant Reports 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…
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Last week's news that AppNexus was "no longer participating" in the Advertising ID Consortium resulted in a lot of speculation that the group of shared-ID proponents were finished and universal IDs were doomed. Well, there's life left in the old girl yet—sources tell us that while AppNexus has foregone its…
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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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