AdMonsters February 11, 2021 What Do Smart Collaborative Data Solutions Between Pubs and Third-Party Data Providers Actually Look Like? It can’t be overstated how much of a hit in revenue publishers took in 2020. In its “Outlook for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising in 2021” report, Winterberry Group estimates the…
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It can’t be overstated how much of a hit in revenue publishers took in 2020. In its “Outlook for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising in 2021” report, Winterberry Group estimates the decline in global ad spend at ~$39b compared to 2019. We caught up with the report's author, Bruce Biegel to learn…
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Ad platforms spent the 2010’s rapidly innovating new ways to target, personalize, and measure advertising, largely based on third-party (3P) tracking. Money poured in from advertisers and agencies looking to shed the waste and uncertainty of traditional media and optimize campaigns right down to the user level. And today, digital…
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Now, with the rapid migration of audiences to CTV platforms just as CTV paid and ad-supported channels have exploded on the scene in 2020, both viewers and advertisers are further challenged. Here are some of the latest developments with reach and message frequency in CTV and OTT, as well as…
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Powered by: January 12, 2021 Privacy Sandbox Faces UK Probe Massive Keyword Blocking Returns Pubs Need to Leverage Their Content Around the Watercooler Google's Privacy Sandbox Faces UK Probe There's long been a dark looming question hovering over Google's Privacy Sandbox as an alternative to third-party cookies, especially when…
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It's an age-old question: client-side or server-side, or presumably both? Client-side, while a definite improvement over the waterfall, does have its shortcomings. It increases the audience match rate, but at the expense of latency. And then server-side reduces latency, but at the expense of the match rate. We asked Evgeny…
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Now that ad spend is starting to pick back up, sellers and buyers have an eye toward the future. What will happen when the cookie crumbles? What will take its place? What will become of mobile attribution? Will OTT and CTV continue to rise? Oh, so many questions. Well, here's…
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When it became clear in 2020, that we wouldn't be able to meet in person for a while we created virtual opportunities for Monsters to get together and share ideas. One way we did this, back in June, was to virtually recreate Publisher Forum Wednesday Workshops. Another thing we did…
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Powered by: January 05, 2021 Advertising Spend Going Up How the NYTimes Weathered 2020 2021, Say Hello to Email Ding Dong, Adobe Flash is Dead Advertising Spend Going Up Image sourced from Mediapost 2020 was a tumultuous year for publishers, but signs that we're rebounding couldn't be more clear.…
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When third-party cookies go away, authenticated users will by definition be in short supply, forcing advertisers to pay more to reach their target audiences. What about users who won’t log in and authenticate, a.k.a. the majority of audiences? That’s where the Privacy Sandbox comes in, to help with guests. Achieving this…
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