How do publishers centralize vendor management? What are their biggest challenges in developing a revenue strategy across multiple brands and sites? These, along with how publishers are preparing for a post-cookie world, were discussed during a recent Think Tank hosted with The Media Trust.
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Powered by: June 02, 2020 Leave 230 Alone Streamers Splurge on Ad Spots Seek Partners, Not Vendors The Evolving (But Short-Lived) CMO Is It Finally the Year of the Podcast? Leave 230 Alone We do try to stay out of politics here at AdMonsters, but sometimes politics comes knocking…
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While ad spend is down across the board, the IAB Coronavirus Ad Spend Impact: Buy-Side Report reveals an interesting trend: brands are actually increasing their mission-based marketing efforts by 42% and cause-related campaigns by 41%. This pivot in spend is working favorably for brands. Recent research shows that consumers still want…
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Times are changing as publishers cull demand partners in the hunt for unique demand. Increased supply path optimization (SPO) on both the buy and sell sides means that SSPs must better cater to premium publishers to ensure they’re part of the preferred supply chains. To become better strategic partners with…
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A recently reported fraud leveraging Ads.txt isn't novel, but it highlights an issue with exchanges that’s been lurking on the edges of debate, while also raising serious questions about the future of auction-based programmatic.
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Bad ads are a pretty terrible thing for the entire ad ops ecosystem. By 2025 ad fraud—malvertising redirects and malicious IBV to name a few—will cost advertisers more than $50bn, accounting for 30% share of the overall digital market, so warned The World Federation of Advertisers back in 2016. But…
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For digital media and advertising 2018 has been a really exciting, but often bumpy, roller coaster ride. As far as ad operations is concerned, blockchain, artificial intelligence, location services, and mobile-first everything are offering promising monetization alternatives and other opportunities that bring publishers and brands closer to audiences in more…
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The spread of bad ads is pretty bad in general, but since 2017— throughout the security software industry — cryptojacking has been known as the Evil Overlord (most menacing and most prevalent) of all cyber threats. Hackers looking to get rich quick from mining cryptocurrency illegally are the culprits, and…
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Our new Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson dives into the "Principles for a Better Programmatic Marketplace," an open letter to the industry from six exchanges that seems to grant programmatic buyers all their transparency wishes—fee transparency, no hidden auction machinations, traffic filtered for IVT... We're surprised they didn't throw a…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 26, 2018 A Road Map For OMS Migrations We know some of you are still patting yourselves on the back for coming out the other end of the GDPR launch unscathed, but this is ad tech, folks—the next crisis is always coming sooner than you expect. The…
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