The rise of sell-side curation is a response to signal loss and a strategic reorientation of the programmatic ecosystem, one that unites data fidelity, cost efficiency and omnichannel scale in one fell swoop.
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For publishers to understand how the market values their ad supply, they need visibility into metrics that have traditionally been more visible to buyers than to sellers. OpenSincera is a potential solution for that.
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The New York Times’ Robyn Roberts shares how her team is using curation and partnerships to position its ad inventory as premium and drive sustainable revenue growth.
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Yield, as it relates to AI video, describes the percentage of generated videos that are immediately usable—meeting the standards for accuracy, brand consistency, compliance and creative impact.
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Structural and technical quirks add layers of confusion and bog down mobile app supply paths. But rampant auction duplication is the leading culprit.
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llms.txt is the velvet rope between your content and AI crawlers. Here’s how ad ops can turn it into AI-safe inventory, enforce compliance, and turn crawls into cash.
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Supply-side platforms are experiencing a reckoning. After years of coasting on the industry’s growth wave, they’re waking up to a brutal reality: Publishers have stopped buying their promises and started demanding proof.
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In theory, software as a service (SaaS) is supposed to unlock innovation. But in ad tech, we’re beginning to see signs that SaaS may be doing the opposite.
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When you consider the rising costs of ad-free streaming, the shift to ad-supported platforms isn’t all that surprising. Monthly ad-free access to the top eight US streaming services now costs roughly $122.
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AdButler’s Robert Janes lays out the case for owning your audience, launching your own media network, and finally reclaiming control from middlemen who’ve had their hand in your pocket for too long.
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