For Jay Friedman, CEO of Goodway Group, the path to a career in advertising and digital media began with a high school field trip to a local radio station. He learned about different jobs at the station and was awed by the advertising positions. He’ll bring his knowledge of how…
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"BuzzFeed News was a social media ecosystem company, and the ecosystem went away," said a former BuzzFeed exec. "HuffPost was a pre-social media company that BuzzFeed eclipsed in the social media age. And then as social media goes away, the tide comes out, but HuffPost is still kind of there…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 29, 2021 Chrome Releases Privacy Sandbox Timeline; Still Not Supporting ID Alternatives Google released the timeline for the Privacy Sandbox and is finally bidding adieu to third-party cookies in 2023— maybe it's for real this time. This estimated timeline is based on origin trials, Privacy Sandbox use…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 23, 2021 Why Publishers Need a CMP Now In a recent webinar, Personalization & Privacy: Your Third-Party Cookie Replacement Game Plan, Arshdeep Sood, Solutions Engineer, OneTrust, laid out a plan for a future without cookies, explaining why it's important publishers have a CMP in place to adhere…
Read MoreAdMonsters September 17, 2020 Actionable Audience Data and Inventory—No Cookies Required We spoke with Jake Abraham, President at Audigent about why he thought pubs seemed a little gun shy about identity solutions, how they should go about showcasing their first-party data as well as how Audigent plans to help…
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September 16, 2020 Facebook: Open Web Ally ITP Toggled on for All Browsers Political Ad Spend Will Spur Rebound Amazon Closes in on the Duopoly It's Official: Taboola and Outbrain Breakup Ad Blocking on the Decline FB Supports the Open Web? Image sourced from Twitter CafeMedia’s Chief Strategy Officer, Paul…
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One of the great projects of digital media this decade has been streamlining and simplifying ad placements. We have the technology -- publishers can study where on the page they can get the most engagement, then figure out how to place an ad unit there, to grab the user at…
Read MoreThe crowd is re-assembling at Estancia La Jolla on this, the second day of AdMonsters Publisher Forum 37 (you can check out the liveblog for the first day here -- there was a lot going on). We had a packed day yesterday, with some excellent discussions and a ton of…
Read MoreLast fall I wrote about my experience at the inaugural OpenCo festival here in San Francisco. OpenCo launched last week with an Indiegogo campaign and a calendar of events covering New York (May 22-24, as part of Internet Week), London (June 6-7), Detroit (September 12-13), and San Francisco (October 9-11). I'm proud…
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The term seemed to be omnipresent at Digiday Exchange last Thursday. “Programmatic premium” – The phrase came up in many sessions and was overheard in chatter during coffee breaks. If programmatic premium had a scent, it would have lingered throughout the great hall of the W Hotel all day long.During…
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