For years, Amazon Prime users had two ad-free options for watching video content: transactional video on demand (TVOD) and subscription video on demand (SVOD). The first option allowed people to purchase or rent a movie or TV show; the second was to consume any of the Amazon Prime library. In…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 29, 2023 Big Tech, Walled Gardens, and Regulatory Battles in 2024 In the next few years, Google, Meta, and Amazon will continue attracting the lion’s share of ad spend, accounting for 83% of global digital advertising revenue. Regulators across the globe are trying to stop their dominance, but…
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Thanks to their dominance, Google, Meta, and Amazon will continue to attract the lion’s share of the advertiser’s budget. Over the next few years, they will account for 83% of global digital advertising revenue. Regulators across the globe are doing all they can to stop the dominance, of course, but Big…
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In a unanimous decision, a San Francisco jury sided with Epic Games, ruling that Google violated antitrust laws by unfairly stifling competition within Google Play.
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MOW doesn't see itself as a general services company. The organization was the original body that complained to the CMA, leading to the commitments that delayed the rollout of the Privacy Sandbox. Without MOW's complaint and the CMA, Google's Sandbox may have rolled out long ago.
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We dove headfirst into the hottest topics of this past year and peeked into the crystal ball for 2024, all in the company of the ever-insightful Chris Kane at our AdMonsters 2023 Recap LinkedIn Live.
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Alongside the Topics API and Attribution APIs, PAAPI is intended to preserve the ability of publishers to monetize Chrome users while simultaneously protecting those users from the perceived intrusiveness of the combined weight of the targeting capabilities of the existing advertising technology marketplace.
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In early December, the ANA published its Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. It is a massive undertaking, as the researchers parsed the log-level data of 21 prominent advertisers to track the entire journey of their investments in the open web. Those campaigns represented $88 billion. Two years in the making,…
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Yahoo Blueprint, the latest DSP tool emerging from the house of Yahoo Advertising, is an AI suite for media buying powering performance-based solutions fueled by over 335 million logged-in Yahoo users. AdMonsters spoke with Adam Roodman, SVP of Product Strategy and Management at Yahoo to take a deep dive into…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 30, 2023 Addressing the Future: Publisher Perspectives on Data, Privacy, and the Road Ahead During a panel titled "The Future of Addressability: The Portfolio View," Anthony Katsur, CEO of IAB Tech Lab, sat down with Shobha Doshi, SVP of Programmatic Strategy & Operations at Raptive, Ryan McConville…
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