June 07, 2023 Generative AI Makes for Irresistible Headlines, but at What Cost to Publishers? Speaking of AI — When Does it Infringe on Publisher IP Rights? Generative AI Makes for Irresistible Headlines, but at What Cost to Publishers? The News: Last week, the world woke up to yet another…
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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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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…
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I’ve read the hype; ChatGPT is supposed to be better than Google Search, right? Why go through the bother of searching, clicking on a bunch of articles, comparing multiple sources, and synthesizing what I read when ChatGPT can do that for me in one simple step? It has been a…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 4, 2023 Decision Makers Say Visual Communication Helps Drive Business So what do business leaders think about visual communication’s role in driving business efficiency, audience engagement and recruitment efforts. We looked at Canva's Visual Economy Report, which revealed some thought-provoking insights about industry leaders' perspectives of visual…
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"BuzzFeed News was a social media ecosystem company, and the ecosystem went away," said a former BuzzFeed exec. "HuffPost was a pre-social media company that BuzzFeed eclipsed in the social media age. And then as social media goes away, the tide comes out, but HuffPost is still kind of there…
Read MoreAdMonsters April 27, 2023 How CouponFollow Effectively Monetizes Traffic As a Nontraditional Publisher With a growing audience ready to buy, coupon or deal sites can be a precious asset to advertisers. However, nontraditional publishers often face off against early stumbling blocks as they develop a monetization strategy. Read more. Consumer…
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What if an ad tech company could figure out a way to enhance their offerings with generative AI to provide publishers with incremental revenue? Well, that’s exactly what Dan Rua, CEO, Admiral, the Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) Company, told me his company is offering publishers through their platform. Learn how…
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With a growing audience ready to buy, coupon or deal sites can be a precious asset to advertisers. However, nontraditional publishers often face off against early stumbling blocks as they develop a monetization strategy.
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This is just one of the more worrying findings in HUMAN’s yearly Enterprise Bot Fraud Benchmark Report, which examines over 20 trillion digital interactions each week (or about 33 million per second!). The annual report seeks to provide enterprise security teams with the insights they need to understand what they’re…
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