Juniper Research warns digital ad fraud and malvertising will cost the industry nearly $68 billion in 2022. But does that mean that all publishers are destined to lose substantial sums to nefarious players? Or are there steps they can take to stem those losses and protect their readers and their reputations?…
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If you're running programmatic advertising, and almost everyone is, you have an ads.txt file in place on your website and it is likely something you update at least from time to time. But do you really understand the mechanics behind the file and what you as a publisher should be…
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Powered by: January 26, 2022 Are You Ready to Take an L? Unlocking True Inventory Value Is It Bye Bye Bye for the Open Exchange? Hashed Emails Aren't the Only Way Out Ban on Surveillance Advertising: Will Pubs Take a W or L? Last Tuesday, Democrat lawmakers introduced a…
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Powered by: December 22, 2021 IAB Europe's TCF Problems Get Bigger Regrets, Identity Vendors May Have Had a Few Problems for IAB Europe's TCF Get Bigger, Go Deeper Whenever European residents visit an ad-supported website, they are bombarded with pop-ups asking for confirmation of privacy choices. They have been…
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On September 20th, 2021, Apple released iOS 15, an operating system update introducing three new privacy features to Apple devices: Hide my Email, Private Relay, and Mail Privacy Protection (MPP). This update, and these features, in particular, alter how and what data publishers (and third parties) can collect. While Apple's…
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The burden of cost for preemptively identifying and blocking bad ads lies solely at the feet of the publisher. And because this approach often means that blocked ads don’t get filled at all, revenue cannot be recovered. Malvertisers, on the other hand, don’t stand to lose a thing – their…
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August 10, 2021 Digital Subs Keeping Big Pubs Alive Malvertising Now Infiltrating IOT Devices Mozilla Disses SWAN and UID 2.0 Around the Water Cooler Digital Subscriptions Holding Steady, For Now Image by Markus Winkler from Pixabay Digital subscriptions to newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal…
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Jason White, SVP and Head of Publishers, LiveRamp, and Chris Pirrone, General Manager, USA TODAY, Sports Media Group, take AdMonsters Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson, on a deep dive discussion into the world of publisher first-party authentication strategies. "If cookies were the currency before, the gold is that relationship with…
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Powered by: March 23, 2021 Google Blocked 3.1 Billion Ads in 2020 Time For Pubs to Find New Normal Around the Water Cooler Google Goes Blocka, Blocka, Blocka on 3.1 Billion Ads The year 2020 really brought malvertisers out of the woodwork. From pandemic-related scams, to #BLM-related scams, to…
Read MoreAdMonsters February 5, 2021 Third-party Tracking Got Advertisers Deep Into Debt; Now It’s Time to Repay 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…
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