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What Is a Custom Content Taxonomy?

The digital advertising community has been witnessing what many are calling a resurgence of contextual advertising. But contextual advertising is only as effective as the taxonomy of content on which it is based. Enter custom content taxonomies. Most publishers currently use standardized content taxonomies by such organizations as the IAB,…

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Are We Ready for a Post-Cookie World Fueled by Hybrid Targeting?

While the full implications of a truly cookie-free ecosystem are not fully understood, advertisers and publishers have much to consider. Advertisers need an alternative to third-party cookies, one that will allow them to scale their campaigns and drive efficiency. In all likelihood, campaigns of the future will contain elements of first-party…

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Never Fear, IAB Seller-Defined Audiences Is Here

In the latest attempt at saving the day before the cookiepocalypse, please meet our potential super data hero — seller-defined audiences (SDA). This solution developed by the IAB Tech Lab is a proof of concept released last week as a result of Project Rearc launched two years ago. The SDA…

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Experience Comes First: Why Capitalizing on User Experience Is Key to a Sustainable Video & Revenue Growth Strategy

With steady increases in consumer streaming hours, creating engaging video content that excites and delights users and doesn’t interrupt their experience is paramount. Johanna Bergqvist, VP of Strategic Partnerships, Ex.co talked to us about leveraging user experience strategies into higher CPMs and inventory value to build credibility and trust with your…

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How AI Will Drive the Future of Advertising

If you thought GDPR and CCPA added complexity to the digital advertising ecosystem, brace yourself: they were just the tip of the iceberg. Today, 69% of countries have adopted consumer data privacy legislation, and 10% have legislation under review. Only 5% of the world has no legislation whatsoever. Do these…

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AdMonsters Revenue Strategy Sessions On Demand

AdMonsters teamed up with OpenX to address the ever-changing advertising ecosystem, along with the many obstacles publishers currently face with keeping fill rates and CPMs high. How can the open web both survive and thrive in the coming years? We looked at three distinct areas — Prebid, First-party Data and…

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Putting Contextual in Context: Can Standardized Definitions and Taxonomies Lead to Scale?

Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider about the practice of segmenting and analyzing content. So in advance of our upcoming Revenue Strategy Session,…

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What Lies Ahead for Marketers and Publishers Sans Cookies?

Lotame released the findings of “Beyond the Cookie: The Future of Advertising for Marketers & Publishers,” during a recent webinar with AdMonsters. The results: Three in five agreed that people-based identity solutions are necessary. The same respondents emphasized the need for interoperability.

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Cleaning Up the Programmatic Supply Chain 

The advertising ecosystem has a huge opportunity to create a more transparent programmatic supply chain, where SSPs, brands, ad tech vendors, and agencies alike can commit to using new tools and tactics to improve how they work with publishers. By enhancing the control and transparency in the programmatic supply chain, we will ultimately…

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