In early December, the ANA published its Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. It is a massive undertaking, as the researchers parsed the log-level data of 21 prominent advertisers to track the entire journey of their investments in the open web. Those campaigns represented $88 billion. Two years in the making,…
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Here at AdMonsters, we cover all things ad tech, and we wanted to present you some of the hottest ad tech and digital media topics of 2023. On Wednesday, December 13, at 2 pm EST, we will chat with Chris Kane, Founder of Jounce Media, to hear his hot takes…
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For an industry bent on standards, the digital advertising ecosystem is rife with drama, as a stunning collection of books published in 2023 amply demonstrates. These books are on our reading list because they’re far from dry chronicles of an industry. The authors pull back the curtains so that we…
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Publishers, SSPs, and DSPs need to work together to ensure all parties get what they need from one another. However, publishers often lament the lack of transparency and the slow evolution of SSPs. At Publisher Forum New Orleans, a DSP, an SSP, and a publisher all came together on one stage…
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A staggering $10 billion will pour into the political advertising arena with the goal of swaying American voters during the 2024 Election cycle. While $10 billion is a boon for digital media stakeholders, that money comes with severe risks. Publishers must undertake the critical task of determining whether specific advertisers…
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At PubForum New Orleans, we hosted a session, Digital Media Smackdown: Buy-Side V. Sell-Side Programmatic Data Gap and how sellers and buyers can improve their practices, how the ad tech industry will look with fewer intermediaries, and how to maneuver the complex programmatic supply chain.
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at PubForum New Orleans, Johanna Bergqvist, General Manager, The Americas, EX.CO, moderated a discussion with leaders from DailyMail.com and News Corp to find out how publishers can make their video inventory more brand-safe and appealing to media buyers so they can increase fill rates and revenue.
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After we published our article about Black-owned publishers’ concerns about being designated MFA sites, we spoke to some industry experts to understand how they define them, how to distinguish a bad site from a benign one, and to see if the industry’s standards label Black-owned publishers as MFA sites unfairly.
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Long before MediaMath shut down, Mike Hauptman and Dan Bougourd were intrigued by the idea of building a meta DSP. They both joined MediaMath in the company’s early days, but by 2018, they were itching to bring programmatic advertising to the mid-market advertiser.
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CTV consumption skyrocketed in 2020, and the growth is not slowing anytime soon. CTV publishers and advertisers have mined these growing audiences like a gold mine with much success. Although not all that glitters is gold, the CTV mine stores a few pieces of fool's gold.
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