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What Is a CMP?

Consent Management Platforms (CMP) have been cropping up rapidly in the wake of GDPR—(and soon CCPA)—as the tool du jour for aiding publishers in collecting and managing consumer consent and passing that data throughout the advertising ecosystem. For publishers working with multiple ad partners who need to enable user-level ad…

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Publisher Forum Miami 2019: Ad Ops Innovation is People

A constant theme at Publisher Forum Miami 2019 focused on innovation in ad ops being driven by people—and not machines. And that’s whether we’re talking about customers or the ad ops teams making the magic of digital advertising happen. That's was the message brought home by Deepna Devkar, VP, Head…

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8 Fun Things You Didn’t Know About Ad Ops

People in ad ops have a clever way of making sense of their jobs through a pop cultural lens. Here are eight things you probably didn't know about ad ops told through gifs at Pub Forum Miami. These often hilarious (and sometimes scary) ideas were brainstormed in a lab at…

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What Is CCPA?

“Winter is coming.” - Ned Stark, House of Stark If you’re a GOT fan like I’m becoming, you know that’s the motto for House of Stark and it’s issued as a warning or a heads up that the House needs to get itself prepared—both literally and figuratively. In essence, it’s…

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What Is Pchain?

Pchain—not to be confused with rapper 2 Chainz or PCHAIN, the first native multichain system in the world that supports Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)—is sort of like ads.txt for the buy side. It's a system based on the TAG PaymentID that gives buyers insight into transaction history, alerting them to…

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How Can Publishers Tell a Better Audience Story?

For years publishers have sold advertising targeted around specific content, using available first-party data as the basis for establishing value around the opportunity. That value proposition is built around the scale of the audience, which boils down to selling pageviews, impressions and clicks. But your audience is a lot more…

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4 Lessons For Digital Success From #IABALM

Digital media can be a struggle for all players involved. The duopoly, plus the growing As—Apple and Amazon—continue to gobble up digital ad spend. Mergers, acquisitions and layoffs become the strategy du jour. Legacy brands face challenges too, as digital natives opt for digitally savvy upstarts that know exactly how…

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Is Direct-to-consumer the New Rule For Marketing?

What do brands like Harry's, Casper Mattress and Allbirds all have in common? They are all building a one-to-one connection with their customers in real-time that drives the basis of their business and their success. That was the theme of Mike Sands', CEO & Co-Founder of Signal, talk at Industry…

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