As 2021 comes to a close, it's time to reflect on the top trends that set the tone for digital media and ad tech throughout the year. From Chrome's on-again, off-again cookie cutoff to Apple's privacy updates to mass confusion surrounding developing solid first-party data and identity strategies to the…
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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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Powered by: December 08, 2021 Ad Spend Going Up? An Embarrassment of Identity Choices Will Birds of Different Feathers FLoC Together? Ad Spend Increases More Than Predicted. Good News for Publishers? Image sourced from Mediapost Consumers hear supply chain issues and walk past empty store shelves and think that…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 3, 2021 Best Practices for Ensuring High-Quality Inventory & Ads We’ve all heard the stories about ad placements that make brand managers cringe: ads for respectable brands appearing in terrorist recruitment videos, and the like. Obviously, marketers want to avoid such placements. But that’s just a start.…
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We’ve all heard the stories about ad placements that make brand managers cringe: ads for respectable brands appearing in terrorist recruitment videos, and the like. Obviously, marketers want to avoid such placements. But that’s just a start. In an ideal world, your ad will be seen by real people alongside…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 26, 2021 Balancing In-App Ad Quality With Revenue The last 24 months have been stellar for app developers. More users installed more apps, demonstrating that this robust app economy still has plenty of room for growth. But key challenges still remain. App publishers that rely on advertising…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 19, 2021 Why Digitized Ad Sales are Mission Critical for Future Revenue Growth Today's publishers have to mitigate quite a bit of friction in order to breeze through revenue goals. There's friction between different platforms for campaign tracking, forecasting, and reporting — not to mention the tools…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 12, 2021 Putting Contextual in Context: Can Standardized Definitions and Taxonomies Lead to Scale? Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 5, 2021 The Future of Publisher Revenue Operations: Benchmarks & Best Practices From third-party cookie deprecation to ColoPA, CCPRA, Apple, and the looming antitrust pressure on Google and Facebook, the business of digital publishing is being rebuilt. And while there’s no such thing as a crystal ball,…
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Supply Path Optimization (SPO), aka finding the most direct route to a publisher’s inventory, sounds like an activity that’s best left to the world’s DSPs. After all, they’re the ones with the AI-powered algorithms that focus on winning ad placements for advertisers. SPO actually requires teamwork amongst all parties, especially those…
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