December 16, 2020 Business as Usual at Facebook? What If Google Had No Doubleclick? Apple's Privacy Labels Are Super Scary For Facebook, It’s Just Business as Usual By now you’ve likely caught the latest episode in the saga that is Facebook: The Telenovela. Each week gets just a little bit…
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In the past week, Google became embroiled in a serious face-off against a firing squad of 50 state attorney generals related to the tech giant’s dominance over the digital advertising ecosystem. The funny thing is Google is the only one in the industry—including ad tech companies, advertisers and publishers—who doesn’t…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 23, 2019 Blockchain Leads the Transparency Brigade: Lucidity's Miguel Morales During its short time bouncing around the ad-tech echoplex, blockchain has run the full hype cycle: from "the next big thing" to "running joke" and now "potentially legit." Tech startups are finally deploying actionable and scalable solutions to a variety of problems,…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 16, 2019 Does the Network Television Upfront Still Matter in a Digital World? The long-standing ritual of TV network television upfront presentations are now running for the 2019-2010 season, with the major networks wrapping up these showcases from Monday, May 14 through Thursday, May 17, 2019. New…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 9, 2019 Ops Turns 10 The day before Ops 10 years ago, AdMonsters Founder, Bowen Dwelle, had an epiphany: Ops is Sexy. We had never discussed this kind of messaging before, says AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler. All I knew is that I was going to find myself…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 2, 2019 Data Is Biggest Star at Hulu NewFront As industry players are pondering the usefulness of the upfront in the digital age and digital publishers are bowing out of the NewFronts, Hulu pretty much gave a master class in how to do it right. The presentation…
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We talk to an awful lot of publishers at our Publisher Forums and other events. And in those conversations, we get deep into the weeds with them about their frustrations—like ad fraud, ad impression discrepancies, and ad quality. But we also speak with them about all the things that work…
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Better Ads Standards are an initiative for promoting “acceptable” ad experiences for users, while discouraging disruptive ads. The overall goal, as stated, has been to keep the spread of ad blocking tools at bay, by assuring the ads in the ecosystem are not so annoying they drive users to start…
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“Who are these ad blocking folks anyway?” asks the latest survey from the IAB.Come on, we all know the answer to that: they’re a bunch of millennial brats that think they’re entitled to all the content in the world without being a little bit annoyed by brand messaging. They don’t…
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AdMonsters Meetup and Awards CeremonyDecember 2, 2015, 5:00 to 8:00 pm, The Weather Company5:30 to 6:15 pm Panel: Operation First-Party DataAs we’ve written before on AdMonsters, publisher first-party data is the oil of the digital advertising industry. However, just like with the oil industry, the money is not in drilling…
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