Last week, Gabe Greenberg advised readers to be wary of blockchain-based ad tech solutions that over-promise on this still-emerging technology. Now, he explains how blockchain could replace OpenRTB and solve for the protocol's flaws, and he shows us some examples of how brands are already using blockchain tech outside of…
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Gavin Dunaway went to the recent Blockchain Xplore conference in New York a couple weeks ago, and here's what he saw and heard. For one thing, blockchain technology is being rolled out seemingly in a parallel way to how the internet was. For another, the need to clean house in…
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This week's news briefs: AppNexus backed out of the MRC's buy-side accreditation process. EBDA is out of beta. NBCU will transact on impressions for both digital and TV. Digital pubs are getting in on YouTube TV.
Read MoreAdMonsters April 5, 2018 Let’s Take This Inside: The State of Programmatic In-Housing We were told brands were going to displace agencies and undertake programmatic media buying on their own. It didn't happen according to the schedule many had predicted. But it's happening now. Mike Hans of Forge Group…
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News briefs for Apr. 2:Facebook makes it harder for advertisers to use third-party data sets. There's confusion around how GroupM expects publishers to comply with GDPR. More than a quarter of web traffic could be bots, but that could be partly okay.
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Here's the conclusion of this three-part interview series with Claudia Page, Dailymotion's VP, Product and Partner Development. Claudia tells Gavin Dunaway that publishers will always need larger platforms to drive traffic to their O&Os. But when pubs look to these platforms, they need not only the traffic, but opportunities to…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 29, 2018 Minding Your Demand Partners: Take Our Partner Evaluation/Ad Quality Survey Publishers have so many demand partners to work with today... which can be challenging when you need to track down the source of redirects, bad creative, low fill rates, and other indicators of poor quality.…
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Publishers have so many demand partners to work with today... which can be challenging when you need to track down the source of redirects, bad creative, low fill, and other indicators of poor quality. How do you decide which of your partners can stay, and which need to be cut…
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The Google News Initiative is a mix of new and old offerings to boost quality news and root out disinformation. Also, Meredith will lay off 1,200 Time Inc. folks in a wide review of its portfolio. Vox already laid off some people in February, and now its publisher explains their…
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We keep hearing about how badly the digital media industry needs more conversations between the buy side and the sell side... so we decided to start one ourselves. We asked Gabe Greenberg, agency/marketing lifer, industry advisor, and CEO/Co-Founder of the GABBCON conference, to share perspectives from his extensive buy-side network.…
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