March 31, 2020 Ad Spend Not Dry Yet 💦 Vertical Spending Trends Covid-19 Force Majeure Begins Bad Actors Prey on Battered Publishers Facebook to the Rescue Ad Spend Hasn’t Dried Up Yet Publishers probably feel like they’ve been placed under quarantine by their advertisers lately, and new data from an…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 27, 2020 PubForum Video: Keynote Jessica B. Lee, Loeb & Loeb, Getting Digital Media and Advertising Ready For CCPA The first CCPA Class Action was filed against clothing retailer Hanna Andersson and Salesforce and California's Attorney General has modified proposed regulations. And still, CCPA remains just as…
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March 25, 2020 Coronavirus’ Media Fallout What Are Brand Marketers Thinking? Safari ITP Update 🛑🍪 Taxing Ad Tech: NY's Up Next Sliding Programmatic Fees Coronavirus’ Media Fallout Spreads Source: Yieldbird We hope all of you are keeping your distance and enjoying this newsletter on the hottest news from home. It…
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Coronavirus is hurdling toward a distressing crossroads. Even though people are more active online than probably ever before, many publishers can’t monetize the traffic because they can’t draw advertiser spend. All the data suggests publishers are going to have a hard time waiting this out till the advertising faucets turn…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 20, 2020 PubForum Video: Keynote Jamie Gutfreund, Special Advisor at SuperAwesome 50th Publisher Forum Keynote Jamie Gutfreund came to AdMonsters with an interesting idea—she's currently a special advisor for SuperAwesome, which specializes in "kidtech" that enables brands to safely engage with younger audiences... You know, the ones…
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In AdMonsters new weekly newsletter, The Wrapper, we summarize exciting news items that catch our eyes and link them to wider developments in digital media and advertising. As the global Coronavirus pandemic hit, we've been covering news about how it's impacting digital media and advertising, which includes ad ops, rev ops…
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March 17, 2020 Another Brick in AT&T's Wall Pornhub's Coronavirus Growth Spurt Will Local News Ever Have Its Day? Major News Outlets Break Down Their Paywalls Social Distancing Boosts Video Viewership 60% Another Brick in AT&T’s Walled Garden Has this ever happened to you? You’re the head of a rising…
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This week's edition of The Wrapper is arriving in your inbox on Wednesday while we're on location at PubForum in Santa Monica. Next week, we'll return to our regularly scheduled Tuesday mailings. March 11, 2020 Coronavirus Climbs Blocked Keyword List Maryland's Digital Ad Tax 404bot Steals Millions in Ad $…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 5, 2020 How Will an Entire Industry Unlearn Ad Tech 1.0? "Ad Tech 2.0 won’t offer marketers nearly as much access to deterministic, user-level, and cross-site/cross-app data as they’ve grown accustomed to. In many cases, user-level data will dry up completely," says Myles Younger, Senior Director of…
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March 03, 2020 Coronavirus Impacts Digital Advertising Subscription Fatigue Brave Most Privacy-Friendly Browser CTV Ad Share Triples Digital Advertising Stricken With Coronavirus? If you’re not busy constructing homemade NP95 masks or getting into fistfights over the last bottle of Purell at the pharmacy, you might wonder to yourself, “Hey—how is…
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