April 06, 2021 Should Pubs Even Care About NFTs? Will ClubHouse's Direct Payments Shake Up the Digital Media Ecosystem? Around the Water Cooler...Everything Else We're Reading Could NFTs Be a Boon for Publishers? Image sourced from FutureStreamTV We’ve been sitting on the sidelines watching all of this NFTs (nonfungible tokens)…
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We've been wondering if this rush of ad dollars coming into the audio pipeline and move to streamline the ad supply chain with programmatic is opening the door for fraud to invade the quickly growing podcast and audio advertising ecosystem. So, we turned to Ryan Adams, SVP of Partnerships at…
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AdMonsters April 8, 2021 Managing Consent in Apps in iOS 14.5 and Beyond "We believe that for publishers, like DPG Media, that have a trusted relationship with their users, Apple’s ATT Framework will be less disruptive as consent rates will likely be higher than for less well-established businesses," writes…
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Powered by: March 30, 2021 The Next CTV Land Grab: A Peloton Screen? The Future of CMS Could User Panels Be a Panacea for Digital Identity? Around the Water Cooler The Next CTV Land Grab: A Peloton Screen? Image sourced from Peloton The virus that shall not be named…
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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…
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AdMonsters March 18, 2021 The Future of Advertising Should Be Open Sourced A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a ThinkTank with AdPushup and a group of Monsters to discuss latency, UX, and their impact on revenue. AdPushup's Director of Publisher Development, Dikshant Joshi, shared some great advice with…
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A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a ThinkTank with AdPushup and a group of Monsters to discuss latency, UX, and their impact on revenue. The conversation quickly evolved into how the cookie's demise might affect latency, UX, and by extension, revenue. AdPushup's Director of Publisher Development, Dikshant Joshi, shared some…
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Powered by: March 09, 2021 An Ecosystem Divided Brands Are Hungry For New Digital Ad Options Around the Water Cooler An Ecosystem Divided Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash "Are we creating two different ecosystems?" Shenan Reed, SVP, Head of Media, L'Oréal asked Jerry Dischler, Vice President / General…
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Now with the recent influx of premium streaming services like Disney+ and HBO Max, along with changing CouchSurfing consumer behaviors brought on by the Pandemic, it looks like OTT is really set to take off. In fact, according to North America OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from analyst firm…
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2021 is already shaping up to be an improvement over last year, crippling snowstorms and vaccine shortage be damned. For pubs, the year also presents something of a fresh start. They are genuinely taking a ‘nowhere to go but up’ mentality this year, making most of the dregs befalling ad tech…
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