From Apartment Therapy’s sponsor-backed tools to MotorTrend’s interactive awards and Digital Trends’ AI gamification, publishers are finding fresh ways to keep audiences engaged. Here’s how they’re turning stickiness into loyalty—and loyalty into revenue.
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Media quality is no longer a guessing game. From ad-to-content ratio to carbon impact, new signals are giving publishers and buyers a clearer picture of value—and it’s changing the way programmatic works.
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At Supernova PRIDE, industry leaders turned the Cannes conversation on its head. From travel media to fandom to AI ethics, here are eight takeaways that prove inclusive innovation is good for culture—and business.
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Brand safety, as we know it, is dead. Not because brands have stopped caring about where their ads appear, but because the current framework has failed them.
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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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Publishers are losing signals—and revenue—on cookieless browsers like Safari and Firefox. This quick survey captures what you need from identity solutions to restore performance, increase demand, and make audience data work harder.
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Traditional data is backward-looking, analyzing content performance only after it has been tested against an algorithm, making it an inadequate tool for anticipating trends. Quantitative data highlights past behaviors, while qualitative insights help marketers understand the motivations behind them.
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ROAS might be the golden child of ad tech KPIs, but is it really the best measure of success? In this sharp take, Abhijith Jayakumar, Group Director at GroupM and AI storyteller, challenges the industry’s obsession with ROAS and explores better alternatives for measuring true business impact.
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Generative AI, ad blockers, and platform shifts are chipping away at publisher pageviews and revenue. Explore the top threats publishers face today and the strategies they need to defend their audience and future-proof their business.
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Content theft is rising, and publishers must proactively protect their intellectual property. Alice Ting, VP, Content Partnerships, at DMG Media, outlines four key strategies—legal, technical, revenue, and industry collaboration—to safeguard digital content in 2025 while maintaining accessibility and monetization.
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