We caught up with AdMonsters Publisher Forum Virtual Keynote Walter T. Geer III to learn about how he's connected the dots between what he learned in his early ad ops days to now being an agency creative and how ad ops is breeding ground for innovation and the jumping-off point…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 6, 2020 California in Chaos: 3 Things You Need to Know It’s August, which means that the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is officially in effect and enforceable. However, there are still more questions than answers, and the chaos will likely continue for the next year or…
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Powered by: August 04, 2020 Will Ad Industry Voltron Save Advertising's Future? Programmatic In-Housing Goes Worldwide Google Officially Joins IAB TCF 2.0 GVL Ad Spend Actually May Not Return Until 2023 Ad Industry Voltron Forms to Defend Advertising’s Future Image source Netflix Led by the ANA’s Bill Tucker as…
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Transparency concerns have long plagued open advertising markets, scaring away participants on the buy and sell-side of open real-time bidding advertising transactions. The buy-side has ads.txt and sellers.json. Unfortunately, sell-side participants—publishers—often have difficulty obtaining basic levels of transparency in reverse when using header bidding tools to extend demand.
Read MoreAdMonsters July 9, 2020 Can Traffic Shaping Bridge the Gulf Between SSPs and DSPs? The antiquated idea that SSPs are publisher defenders and DSPs are buyer advocates has created a gulf—one might say a black hole of pricing machinations and Russian-Doll-style auctions that threatens to suck away the benefits…
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What an interesting time for fast-rising TikTok to introduce a self-serve advertising platform aimed at meeting the demands of SMBs. In addition to the platform's now-famous creative capabilities, SMBs will get advanced targeting and flexible budgeting allowing for campaign pausing. Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway caught up with the TikTok collective…
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We're sure your eyebrows jumped at the title of a recent report by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the City University of Hong Kong: "Ad blockers may benefit websites, users, and the market at large." Well, your brows might relocate past your scalp when you read some of the…
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In May, Criteo submitted SPARROW (Secure Private Advertising Remotely Run On Webserver) to the W3C in response to Google's privacy sandbox proposal. In response to industry-wide feedback, SPARROW was recently updated to include reporting capabilities to further secure users’ privacy without compromising advertisers’ performance. We spoke with Charles-Henri Henault, VP…
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While the needs of each publisher may be slightly different, generally there are five questions every publisher should ask when evaluating whether or not a cookieless solution is right for them. Any solution that satisfies these criteria will likely enable publishers to sustain and grow ad revenue, while simultaneously establishing…
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June 23, 2020 Apple's IDFA Goes Opt-In DigiTrust Bites the Dust Coronavirus Travel Slump Cuts Google Deep Blunt Force Blocking #BlackLivesMatter Apple’s IDFA Goes Opt-In The rumor mill was running wild with speculation that Apple was about to mercilessly slay the iOS app-based advertising tracker, IDFA. Well, good-ish news—IDFA lives!…
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