In the second of this three-part interview series, Claudia Page, Dailymotion's VP, Product and Partner Development, shows Gavin Dunaway a world outside of Facebook for content distribution and for getting traffic. Facebook, she says, has veered away from its most distinct core features, and there are pluses and minuses in…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 22, 2018 Are You Ready for the Transparency Blockchain Promises? Blockchain promises a level of transparency the ad industry needs in order to clean up the supply chain. But it could disclose fees in a way that could hurt the business of some of those companies along…
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Facebook's algorithm changes (and public statements) have publishers scrambling to retool the way the platform fits with their business strategy. But let's not panic yet: Claudia Page, Dailymotion's VP, Product and Partner Development, tells Gavin Dunaway about how the industry has been down some similar paths already, and how Facebook's…
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This week's news briefs: Cambridge Analytica overstepped user data boundaries, iHeartMedia's bankruptcy brings mixed feelings for radio fans, one of Newsweek's bot-traffic partners gets unpacked, and Amazon gains more and more digital ad market share.
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Real talk for a second: Whenever you hear me griping about the myriad things Facebook doesn’t do well, either for users or for its publisher partners, I’m probably subconsciously trying to convince myself of something. I’m a social media addict, and I suppose I have been ever since the Geocities…
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As far as malvertising is concerned, redirects remain a particular scourge for ad ops teams. On mobile in particular, a redirect can wreck a user’s session at the least. It’s worse if the user is wise enough to avoid downloading whatever the redirect tells them to download. These attacks are…
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Back on Jan. 11, Facebook announced it was switching up its news feed algorithm to prioritize original posts from users, and to de-prioritize links to news stories. Following uproar and confusion from publishers and marketers about how much good or ill that will do to users, Facebook came back this…
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The opinions expressed by AdBeeler are not necessarily those of AdMonsters and Access Intelligence. They are only the opinions of Rob Beeler if you find them funny or insightful. This week I’m off to CES, and I actually mean CES. It’s not a well-kept secret that most people in our…
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One of the main goals of Ads.txt is to combat domain spoofing. It's angled to be both simple to understand and implement, and harder for bad actors to game than good old whitelisting and blacklisting. But there's more to ads.txt than slapping together a list of partners who are authorized…
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This is the third article in the Native Chronicles series, brought to you with the support of TripleLift. Read the first article on the "creative revival," and the second on flexibility and A/B testing. For a long time, you could not go to a conference on advertising technology without hearing mention of…
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