Prohaska teamed up with Advertiser Perceptions and surveyed 110 US advertisers, publishers and ad tech professionals in November 2023 to learn more about industry practices behind supporting quality news advertising while also fighting disinformation. The Supporting Quality News Content:A Look at Advertisers, Publishers and Ad Tech Professionals revealed some eye-opening findings.
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From the ad quality challenges associated with capturing political ad spend, to the targeting and metrics evolution and attention's dominance, to battling bad ads that tarnish consumers' perceptions of media orgs, to helping sales teams take advantage of adops' treasure trove of data to improve monetization strategies — AdMonsters had…
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For years, Amazon Prime users had two ad-free options for watching video content: transactional video on demand (TVOD) and subscription video on demand (SVOD). The first option allowed people to purchase or rent a movie or TV show; the second was to consume any of the Amazon Prime library. In…
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In 2020, AdMonsters launched the Wrapper Newsletter. Our aim: To summarize exciting news items that catch our eyes and link them to wider developments in digital media and advertising. This list is a compilation of readers' favorite Wrapper stories from 2023.
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The ANA’s Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study finally elevates the role that systemic “information asymmetries” play in allowing programmatic waste to persist.
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After we published our article about Black-owned publishers’ concerns about being designated MFA sites, we spoke to some industry experts to understand how they define them, how to distinguish a bad site from a benign one, and to see if the industry’s standards label Black-owned publishers as MFA sites unfairly.
Read MoreAdMonsters November 10, 2023 Making Programmatic Easier for All with a Meta DSP Long before MediaMath shut down, Mike Hauptman and Dan Bougourd were intrigued by the idea of building a meta DSP. They both joined MediaMath in the company’s early days, but by 2018, they were itching to…
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We spoke with Jack Smith, Chief Product Officer at DoubleVerify, to assess how the industry assesses the damage of MFA websites. According to the ANA, these sites were often the worst of the worst, rife with disinformation, conspiracy theories, and spammy links.
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There are genuine MFA shoppers out there and that brands that advertise with MFAs may find enthusiastic audiences. However, there are limits to their enjoyment of ads. While some shoppers like advertising — and seek it out with online circulars and clicking on sites the industry calls MFAs — there’s…
Read MoreAdMonsters September 28, 2023 The Targeting and Metrics Evolution: Are Publishers Ready for Attention's Dominance? 2024 promises to be a year of rapid innovation, with publishers rethinking what’s possible. From looking at attention as The New Metric to driving higher engagement rates with Innovative Ad Formats & Placements to…
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