The IAB Tech Lab's 2022 video ad guidelines created a challenging video ad landscape for publishers, especially smaller ones. About 90% of what used to be considered instream inventory was now labeled outstream. In addition, it restricted plenty of quality inventory from being labeled as instream, thus wounding both publishers'…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 25, 2023 What Is Supply Path Transparency & Optimization? The ad tech industry is growing on a massive scale, it is expected to grow 5.9% YoY (according to an IAB report). To keep up with such scale and the complex nature of the industry, folks should be…
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The identity conversation is loaded with BS because everyone talks about it like they know what the future holds. Worse, they’re presenting solutions based on what they “know," writes Shiv Gupta, Founder, U of Digital. In reality, nobody knows what a post-identity world will actually look like because that world…
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When the economy is strong and growing, outsourcing tasks and roles to skilled and experienced specialists enables publishers to expand their capacity and grow their operations quickly. During tighter cycles, publishers can ramp down their use and cost of working with an outsourced partner without worrying about rehiring risk or…
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AdMonsters writer, Susie Stulz, has been reading Traffic, Ben Smith’s book on the start of Gawker, HuffPost, and BuzzFeed. The 2000s were heady days for “new media.” Its founders, ambitious and audacious in equal measure, figured out early on that sites that attract the most traffic win. Scorning traditional media,…
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The daily routine of an ad ops manager, whether they work for a marketing agency or represent a web content publisher, is pretty much like a board game. Stumbling blocks are all around, even when they do not expect them. Not that ad ops managers should “beat the card” in…
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In Jounce Media's annual report, 'The State of the Open Internet,' three influential market forces shed light on the obstacles that media companies and advertising technology platforms face: demand concentration, bidstream bloat, and bidstream blindspots. How can we level the playing field between the dominant walled gardens and the rest of the…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 18, 2023 A Path to Net-zero for the Digital Advertising Sector The digital advertising sector has a dirty little secret: its carbon footprint is huge. How big? About the size of the airline industry. It’s only a matter of time before carbon neutrality and even net-zero become…
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The digital advertising sector has a dirty little secret: its carbon footprint is huge. How big? About the size of the airline industry. It’s only a matter of time before carbon neutrality and even net-zero become buying criteria for brands, so now is a good time to consider launching a…
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We don’t need to tell you that the cookie is crumbling. But which solutions will solve for tracking and measurement in a cookieless ecosystem is up for debate, and it leaves some marketers scratching their heads. Ogury surveyed 1,000 agency and marketing execs, and most believe consumer tracking will become…
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