This year's Ops showed us there are some big ways is seems like "everything is different now" in digital media, including GDPR, data partnerships, and Facebook's role. But that means there are a lot of new strategies for digital media people to plot out. Brian LaRue tells us about what…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 31, 2018 Ops 2018: The Hour Is Nigh! Ops 2018 is right around the corner, coming June 4-5 to the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC. While you're getting amped for six simultaneous tracks of sessions, don't snooze on these: Our midday main-room panel features Lee Brown (BuzzFeed), Keith…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 24, 2018 AdMonsters Announces the 2018 Power List Your peers have spoken, your nominations have been pored over, and now the AdMonsters 2018 Power List has been announced. We'll be honoring the 58 people who made the list, for professional excellence and influence in digital media and…
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A new TechTarget report shows branding really makes a difference in B2B campaigns. But that requires quality data—and fortunately, publishers have that. Here's another chance for pubs to make good on the value of their data.
Read MoreAdMonsters May 17, 2018 Don't Scapegoat Publishers for GDPR's Opacity The deadline for GDPR compliance is looming, and the trades continue to chide publishers for not being prepared enough. But considering the interpretation of the regulation has continually changed—and now Google has limited the number of ad tech vendors…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 10, 2018 Vox Media Beats the 'Branded' Buzz Armando Turco left the creative agency world to head up Vox Media's branded content studio last year. From his perspective, the publisher side is where the action is with branded initiatives. Catch him talking about this in a panel…
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Armando Turco left the creative agency world to head up Vox's branded content studio last year. By his perspective, the publisher side is where the action is with branded initiatives. Catch him talking about this in a panel at Ops on June 5, but first, read what he has to…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 3, 2018 Clearing the Way for In-App Transparency To deliver on the potential of automated buying and selling in the in-app space, advertisers, publishers and our industry as a whole are doubling down on transparency initiatives that make it harder for issues like fraud to take root…
Read MoreAdMonsters <span sf="" regular",="" "segoe="" system="" ui="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 14px;="" letter-spacing:="" -0.2px;="" white-space:="" pre-wrap;="" background-color:="" rgb(22,="" 134,="" 217);"="">Sorry for the technical difficulty earlier—even ad tech people can have a technology fail! Back to regularly scheduled programming. -Gavin April 26, 2018 Death of the Middleman: How Blockchain Enables Decentralized Ad Selling…
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For years people would shoot me skeptical glances when I suggested that in the near future the majority of display inventory would be transacted programmatically—whether that meant RTB or another automated channel. But these days when I express this sentiment, more people nod their heads and scowl only because we…
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