As the ad tech ecosystem evolves and the need for an omnichannel approach becomes ever more pressing, both advertisers and publishers are becoming more thoughtful about which platforms they work with and how. Publishers, in particular, have been decreasing their number of SSP partners over the past few quarters. Findings…
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Supply Path Optimization (SPO), aka finding the most direct route to a publisher’s inventory, sounds like an activity that’s best left to the world’s DSPs. After all, they’re the ones with the AI-powered algorithms that focus on winning ad placements for advertisers. SPO actually requires teamwork amongst all parties, especially those…
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We spoke with Dev Pragad, CEO Newsweek, about how the publisher is building better relationships with their audience toward the goal of zero-party data exchange, as well as how they're using LiveRamp's Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) to drive CPMs. We also spoke with Scott Howe, CEO of LiveRamp, to learn more…
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We spoke with Mike Racic, Global Head of Programmatic and Data, Fandom, about the importance of turning users into consumers or fans, working with the right partners on robust identity solutions to future-proof your business, and the disservice publishers do themselves by just thinking of first-party data for the purpose of…
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There’s a certain amount of volatility inherent in programmatic advertising — it is based on auction dynamics, after all — which is why many publishers rely on standards like Prebid to help balance out some of the chaos. So we caught up with Tom Levesque, VP Product Management, OpenX, to…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 8, 2021 The Future—and Present—of Bidstream Efficiency Lies with Traffic Shaping While there are multiple reasons for the growing inefficiencies in the ad buying process, one of the fundamental reasons can be traced to the widespread adoption of header bidding. When publishers first began using header bidding…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 1, 2021 Tubi Becomes First CTV Pub to Implement UID 2.0 The Google third-party cookie crackdown might be on pause, but that's not stopping pubs from testing likely alternatives. Fox Entertainment owned, ad-supported video-on-demand service, Tubi now joins a growing list of publishers supporting Unified ID 2.0…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 24, 2021 Crumbling Cookies and a Rotten Apple: A Sophie’s Choice for Pubs By now, you know that the Chrome third-party cookiepocalypse is staved off for at least another year. The reasons are many …. CafeMedia’s Paul Bannister outlines how difficult it’s been to get the user-tracking alternatives…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 17, 2021 Best Practices for Monetizing Native Ads in Your Email Publishers are already using what they know about their audiences to fuel their editorial, but those very same insights can be used to power advertising and revenue as well. Leveraging your first-party audience data, you can…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 3, 2021 Many Brands, One Platform: How Penske Media Corp Drives Revenue & Scale with a Centralized Ad Stack What’s the secret to keeping the impressions flowing smoothly (without driving everyone insane)? A centralized revenue technology stack that encompasses everything from yield optimization, to forecasting, to site performance…
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