News briefs for Apr. 2:Facebook makes it harder for advertisers to use third-party data sets. There's confusion around how GroupM expects publishers to comply with GDPR. More than a quarter of web traffic could be bots, but that could be partly okay.
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In the second of this three-part interview series, Claudia Page, Dailymotion's VP, Product and Partner Development, shows Gavin Dunaway a world outside of Facebook for content distribution and for getting traffic. Facebook, she says, has veered away from its most distinct core features, and there are pluses and minuses in…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 22, 2018 Are You Ready for the Transparency Blockchain Promises? Blockchain promises a level of transparency the ad industry needs in order to clean up the supply chain. But it could disclose fees in a way that could hurt the business of some of those companies along…
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We keep hearing about how badly the digital media industry needs more conversations between the buy side and the sell side... so we decided to start one ourselves. We asked Gabe Greenberg, agency/marketing lifer, industry advisor, and CEO/Co-Founder of the GABBCON conference, to share perspectives from his extensive buy-side network.…
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This week's news briefs: Cambridge Analytica overstepped user data boundaries, iHeartMedia's bankruptcy brings mixed feelings for radio fans, one of Newsweek's bot-traffic partners gets unpacked, and Amazon gains more and more digital ad market share.
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The Spring 2018 Publisher Forum is a wrap, but the lively discussion goes on. We take a look at how some of those discussions--specifically, how to talk with the buy side about brand safety, and how to take action to avoid the GDPR-empowered wrath of E.U. regulators--have played out this…
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The job of digital ad operations has long been difficult to define—what exactly falls under the purview of ops? Inventory management, yield, revenue analytics… Even sales? No surprise, it’s been hard to evaluate—or justify—how much ops should be compensated. Instead of growing simpler as the digital media industry matured, the…
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We all know Google plans to sunset DSM in 2019, and their publisher clients need a game plan for getting set up with a new OMS Jessica Titmus of the Washington Post shares advice on managing that OMS migration, looking at the Post's experiences migrating from DSM to Operative.
Read MoreAdMonsters February 22, 2018 PubForum Prep: Connecting With the Youth Seriously, though, what IS up with kids these days? Sweety High CEO/Cofounder Frank Simonetti has some real observations on the media habits of young audiences, beyond the speculation and hyperbole we've heard elsewhere. Here's a preview of what he'll…
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At the upcoming Publisher Forum in Huntington Beach, Brandon Seltenrich of CBS Interactive will tell us about how the shift toward identity marketing is advantageous to publishers--and to their users. Brandon shares some thoughts in this Q&A: "My core competency is delivering great content to our users, not maintaining ad…
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