February 10, 2021 Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic NY Times Unlocks First-party Data Revenue Ad Tech Consolidation Nation Around the Water Cooler Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic Image sourced from While global ad spending no doubt took a substantial hit in 2020, Google’s parent company Alphabet posted record…
Read MoreAdMonsters February 11, 2021 What Do Smart Collaborative Data Solutions Between Pubs and Third-Party Data Providers Actually Look Like? It can’t be overstated how much of a hit in revenue publishers took in 2020. In its “Outlook for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising in 2021” report, Winterberry Group estimates the…
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Powered by: February 03, 2021 Sophisticated Scammers on the Rise It's Time to Take Control of Your Data Google and Facebook at War With Apple Around the Water Cooler Sophisticated Scammers on the Rise Image sourced from The Media Trust 2020 not only brought us COVID-19, but it also…
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Ad platforms spent the 2010’s rapidly innovating new ways to target, personalize, and measure advertising, largely based on third-party (3P) tracking. Money poured in from advertisers and agencies looking to shed the waste and uncertainty of traditional media and optimize campaigns right down to the user level. And today, digital…
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On January 22, 2021, Google announced plans for its “First Locally Executed Decision over Groups Experiment” or FLEDGE for short. The announcement on Github describes how they will operationalize TURTLEDOVE for a first test.
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Now that ad spend is starting to pick back up, sellers and buyers have an eye toward the future. What will happen when the cookie crumbles? What will take its place? What will become of mobile attribution? Will OTT and CTV continue to rise? Oh, so many questions. Well, here's…
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When it became clear in 2020, that we wouldn't be able to meet in person for a while we created virtual opportunities for Monsters to get together and share ideas. One way we did this, back in June, was to virtually recreate Publisher Forum Wednesday Workshops. Another thing we did…
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Powered by: January 05, 2021 Advertising Spend Going Up How the NYTimes Weathered 2020 2021, Say Hello to Email Ding Dong, Adobe Flash is Dead Advertising Spend Going Up Image sourced from Mediapost 2020 was a tumultuous year for publishers, but signs that we're rebounding couldn't be more clear.…
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With the growing tragedy that is the pandemic, numerous businesses, including advertising, experienced great challenges. The emergence of AI, the excitement around 5G, expectations put on Out-Of-Home, and other trends we all thought would become the cornerstones of 2020 were dramatically swept aside by COVID-19. Let's take a closer look…
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December 16, 2020 Business as Usual at Facebook? What If Google Had No Doubleclick? Apple's Privacy Labels Are Super Scary For Facebook, It’s Just Business as Usual By now you’ve likely caught the latest episode in the saga that is Facebook: The Telenovela. Each week gets just a little bit…
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