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Webinar Replay: The Login Play

Privacy regulations; the crumbling third-party cookie; a general need to diversify revenue streams. These are just some of the factors driving publishers to better—and directly—engage with consumers. And a key tool helping publishers connect is an old favorite—logins. But although they may seem straightforward, logins and the strategies around them…

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Pandemic Pushes Self-Service Ad Platform Adoption Forward

It was slow starting for self-service ad platforms. Buyers were hellbent on using exchanges to cherry-pick their inventory. But 2020 is an extremely different marketplace, largely shaped by how the global Coronavirus pandemic has altered the landscape. In particular, publishers’ sales teams are focusing on big buys, leaving occasional smaller…

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First-Party Data Transformation: Driving Cultural Change

As damaging as COVID-19 has been to publishers’ revenues, it has presented them with an opportunity to rethink their business models with a focus on building their first-party data strategies. Publishers are finding themselves in a new world that’s been accelerated by the pandemic, as well as privacy regulations granting…

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Views From the Buy Side: Opportunities in a Cookieless World

As privacy restrictions began to tighten, Digital Media & Measurement Consultant, Rachel Adams had concerns that the digital media industry would no longer be data-driven, and she'd end up in the “integrated” media world again, where most buys were considered equally difficult to measure, and plans saw few changes quarter…

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Hello First-Party Data Strategy

In a recent AdMonsters Webinar with Permutive, Goodbye Cookie, Hello New Data Strategy, Nathan Bell, SVP, Data and Business Analytics and Rachael McCombs, Sr. Director of Ad and Media Operations shared why Digital Trends decided to work with Permutive and how it is developing its first-party data strategy.

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Actionable Audience Data and Inventory—No Cookies Required

We spoke with Jake Abraham, President at Audigent about why he thought pubs seemed a little gun shy about identity solutions, how they should go about showcasing their first-party data as well as how Audigent plans to help them drive revenue by making their audience data and inventory actionable for…

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Are You There, Publisher? It’s Me, Apple

Hey publisher! Apple here, I know I've been cagey in the past, but I'm ready to listen to all your concerns about iOS14 and some of our other future plans. Maybe I'll let you know a bit more about the new ad network! (It's not called iAd 2.0!)

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First-Party Data Gets a Second Look

Forget identity—edge-computing-based DMP Permutive's big play is publisher first-party data, and the company boasts bold success stories such as Digital Trends, which will share the tale behind its next-gen first-party data marketplace during a free AdMonsters webinar on Sept. 10 at 1 pm ET. To dive deeper into Permutive's views…

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