2020 is bringing changes to data, privacy, and transparency, and publishers are faced with navigating an uncertain future. With Google's unified pricing rules and move to first-price auctions, new (and upcoming) data and privacy regulations, and the potential of a cookieless ecosystem, publishers are feeling the pressure to adjust their…
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Before the news of Google’s ad department reorganization broke, publishers had already been getting quite itchy over the machinations of Google Ad Manager. Now outgoing Director of Product Development Jason Bigler officially announced in a blog a few weeks ago what publishers had been hearing from their GAM account managers: the…
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To move the industry towards a more transparent future, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has been hard at work releasing specifications that help shed light on the programmatic buying and selling of ads. In 2017 it was ads.txt. This year, it’s sellers.json and supplychain object. But the question is, what exactly…
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On September 18, 2019, AdMonsters brought together an illustrious panel (Time to Get Creative), featuring Derek Gatts, Vice President, Ad Product CNN, Katie Spagnuolo, Associate Director, Media Strategy & Distribution, TripAdvisor and Ron Duque, Senior Director, Revenue Operations, GroundTruth, to discuss how to leverage the latest breakthroughs in creative technology,…
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In the past week, Google became embroiled in a serious face-off against a firing squad of 50 state attorney generals related to the tech giant’s dominance over the digital advertising ecosystem. The funny thing is Google is the only one in the industry—including ad tech companies, advertisers and publishers—who doesn’t…
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It’s still early days, but video header bidding is steadily making headway—powered by the growth of Prebid and an assortment of vendors offering prebid.js bidder adapters to publishers, making the implementation of header bidding much easier. One company entering the race to advance Prebid in the video world is global…
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Just when you thought you couldn't deal with one more standard... The MRC has built on the viewability standards to bring bold cross-media measurement guidelines to the industry. Yup, this new standard is complicated, writes Turnstil's John Osborn, but it may be the grease that slides linear-digital convergence into place.
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1 pm EDT The role of data in advertising has changed... has your data management platform kept up? In 2016, Scott Messer (Senior Vice President, Media at Leaf Group) wrote an article about how tricky it was to switch Data Management Platforms. Stating that, “migrations can be painful, debilitating and…
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5:30 pm — 8:30 pm GroundTruth HQ One World Trade Center (South Entrance), 60th floor 285 Fulton St, NYC Enjoy a night of beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and networking with your local publisher peers, as well as an insightful discussion about how publishers can maximize business via creative solutions. No fee—just…
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In the war of streaming video, the gap between winners and losers depends on how well a publisher delivers on SVOD's promise—a data-driven business in which content is more personalized and the ad targeting capabilities are better than digital, or even TV. Viewer behavior can tell you what people want…
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