Back in 2018, there was a lot of hype about blockchain saving advertising and Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson was riding the wave—high. Now that the hype is over, there are actually quite a few projects proving every day that blockchain and related technologies like cryptography and permissioned ledgers can…
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More than a temporary salve, the right outsourcing provider can move from simply being a bolted on quick fix to becoming fully integrated with your team—ultimately transcending into a consultative partner contributing to business growth and helping to streamline operations.
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As AdMonsters embarks on our 50th Publisher Forum Conference, we reached out to four ad ops vets (we'll call them AdMonsters Luminaries) for their reflections on what it means to be an AdMonster and what PubForum has meant to them and their careers. Let's take a walk down memory lane…
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This episode of Minority Report Podcast features three fathers of girls—Dennis Colon, SVP Ad Ops & Strategy at CBSi, speaking with hosts Erik Requidan, Founder & CEO Tradecraft Advisory and Kerel Cooper, SVP Global Marketing, LiveIntent—speaking about what it means to be a #GirlDad in honor of basketball legend Kobe…
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To gain a better understanding of Google's Privacy Sandbox, we spoke with Michael Zacharski, CEO Engine Technology & EMX Digital, who believes that Google's Privacy Sandbox won't drastically hurt digital advertising and its efficiency against other advertising mediums and that this will initiate positive actions that will build a trustworthy…
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Developers on a recent GitHub thread are really heated about the Chromium project freezing the User-Agent String that provides the advertising ecosystem with metadata about a user's browser name and version, operating system, and rendering engine used\. Many fear they'll no longer have the ability to access this information to…
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As the clock ticks on the two-year expiration of the third-party tracking cookie, the advertising industry wonders how advertising tracking and measurement will work. Google has proposed a plan called the Privacy Sandbox, a series of APIs intended to provide users with privacy while ensuring that programmatic will continue to…
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Ad blocking may have dwindled on desktop, but users are massively taking up arms on mobile. AdMonsters spoke with Marty Krátký-Katz, Co-Founder & CEO of ad-block monetization platform Blockthrough, about the findings from his company's new 2020 PageFair Adblock Report and how publishers should best wage war against this monumental…
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The same factors that enabled programmatic’s rapid rise in the 2010s are poised to change the way advertising is sold and displayed across the growing crop of digital signs on kiosks, taxis, buses, and billboards the world over. The programmatic DOOH revolution’s epicenter, however, will be where the earliest DOOH…
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While we were all busy lamenting the death of the third-party cookie, we just might have missed another privacy initiative that Google is about to implement. It's a measure to deprecate Chrome's user agent string. The user agent string is a string of metadata sent out by your browser when…
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