Powered by: March 23, 2021 Google Blocked 3.1 Billion Ads in 2020 Time For Pubs to Find New Normal Around the Water Cooler Google Goes Blocka, Blocka, Blocka on 3.1 Billion Ads The year 2020 really brought malvertisers out of the woodwork. From pandemic-related scams, to #BLM-related scams, to…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 25, 2021 First-Party Data Transformation: Driving Cultural Change As damaging as COVID-19 has been to publishers’ revenues, it has presented them with an opportunity to rethink their business models with a focus on building their first-party data strategies. Publishers are finding themselves in a new world that’s…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 18, 2021 The Future of Advertising Should Be Open Sourced A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a ThinkTank with AdPushup and a group of Monsters to discuss latency, UX, and their impact on revenue. AdPushup's Director of Publisher Development, Dikshant Joshi, shared some great advice with…
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A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a ThinkTank with AdPushup and a group of Monsters to discuss latency, UX, and their impact on revenue. The conversation quickly evolved into how the cookie's demise might affect latency, UX, and by extension, revenue. AdPushup's Director of Publisher Development, Dikshant Joshi, shared some…
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Powered by: March 16, 2021 Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Is Your CMS Killing Your ROI? Around the Water Cooler Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Ad tech is getting confusing AF. Immediately following the brouhaha over Google’s announcement to not support identifiers tracking users across…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 11, 2021 Four Ad Tech CEOs Weigh In On Google’s Plans To Not Support Cross-site Ad Tracking The announcement that Google won't replace third-party tracking cookies with alternative identifiers has set off alarms throughout the industry. But maybe, instead of being fearful about what comes next, it's…
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Powered by: March 09, 2021 An Ecosystem Divided Brands Are Hungry For New Digital Ad Options Around the Water Cooler An Ecosystem Divided Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash "Are we creating two different ecosystems?" Shenan Reed, SVP, Head of Media, L'Oréal asked Jerry Dischler, Vice President / General…
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The announcement that Google won't replace third-party tracking cookies with alternative identifiers has set off alarms throughout the industry. But maybe, instead of being fearful about what comes next, it's time to welcome the challenge and get more creative about how we all plan for the future of digital advertising.…
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When McDonalds bought Dynamic Yield for $300 million in 2019, one of the benchmarks for the deal was whether the recommendation platform could help increase drive-through sales in the U.S. by 1% overall. Meanwhile, Yum Brands acquired the AI division of Kvantum, a performance marketing firm to use the platform…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 4, 2021 Reducing Latency, Improving UX, and Growing Revenue 2021 is already shaping up to be an improvement over last year, crippling snowstorms and vaccine shortage be damned. For pubs, the year also presents something of a fresh start. They are genuinely taking a ‘nowhere to go but…
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