2025 forced publishers and ad ops teams out of passivity and into strategic survival mode. Our eight most popular articles of 2025 reflect how publishers navigated each challenge and where the industry might go next.
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Amazon announced Wednesday it’s building a dedicated Prebid adapter. The move signals that Prebid has firmly established itself as the industry standard.
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Glenda Bautista Baker, Senior Director of Product at Penske Media Corporation; Steph Layser, Worldwide Head of Publisher Ad Tech Solutions at AWS; and Hélène Parker, Founder of Hélène Parker Consulting—shared practical insights about what it takes to lead teams, integrate automation, develop others, and stay current in a rapidly shifting…
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2025 will be an interesting year for retail media, especially in the groceries category. While Amazon, Walmart, and Target dominate retail media through sheer scale, three emerging players — Instacart, Kroger, and Home Depot — are carving out valuable niches through specialization and innovation.
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Thanks to their dominance, Google, Meta, and Amazon will continue to attract the lion’s share of the advertiser’s budget. Over the next few years, they will account for 83% of global digital advertising revenue. Regulators across the globe are doing all they can to stop the dominance, of course, but Big…
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Cannes Lions International Festival is the most extensive professional gathering for the creative marketing community. For ad tech, there has been many exciting and impactful discoveries. From talks surrounding Google and Netflix to the yachts, which were back in full force this year like they never left, the festival is undoubtedly…
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Move over Big G and Facebook … a little company (well, maybe not so little) called Amazon is nipping at your heels when it comes to digital ad sales. Amazon’s ad business raked in over $15.7 billion in 2020, according to new data from eMarketer. That’s up 53% year-over-year —…
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Last year the trend was set for publishers playing a key role in ecommerce. Now, with homebound consumers shopping more online than ever, publishers are playing a critical role as we see a mass consumer shift to online shopping, with an accompanying reliance on trustworthy product reviews like Holiday Gift…
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At Digital Trends, and for publishers generally, Amazon and other online retailers are becoming a large part of an affiliate strategy which is an increasingly important percentage of publisher revenues. Here’s how we managed to drive millions in sales to Amazon and other partners without ever shipping a single product…
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The big news from Amazon’s direction this week is that the digital powerhouse (“e-tailer” doesn’t really suffice) has been having conversations with some major companies about how it might rev up its advertising efforts in Echo devices. Because Echo is driven by the voice-recognition tool Alexa, we’ve been seeing this…
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