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From Manual Mayhem to Machine Mastery: How Swivel’s AI Agents Are Rewriting the Ad Ops Playbook
Swivel is putting AI agents to work for publishers, automating the messy middle of ad ops so teams can focus on strategy. From faster troubleshooting to smarter workflows, here’s how they’re reshaping the sell-side playbook.
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Can’t Knock the Hustle: Inside AdMonsters Ad Ops Dream Team
Amid tech disruption and publisher shakeups, these eight ad ops pros have the kind of hustle you can’t stop. Meet the AdMonsters Dream Team of 2025.
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Taking Ad Ops Out of the Weeds: The Stillness Isn’t the Move in the Age of AI
Maybe AI isn’t taking over ad ops. Maybe it’s elevating it. From prompt engineering to creative alignment and data stewardship, ops teams are moving from the weeds to the frontlines of strategy. Here’s what it takes to keep up.
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Turns Out Ad Ops Needs Automation More Than Anyone
Ad ops teams are stuck in a loop of manual chaos—and automation might be the only real way out. Here's how publishers are reclaiming time, strategy, and purpose by fixing order-to-cash from the inside out. In advertising operations, the burnout is baked in. Juggling inventory, screenshots, pacing, tags, billing, makegoods—it’s…
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Multicurrency Is Messy. Mediaocean’s Building the Highway That Could Be the Fix.
While the industry debates which currency wins, Mediaocean is busy powering the infrastructure that makes them all work. In this fireside chat at CIMM East, Ramsey McGrory chatted about why being the system of record—and staying neutral—might be the most powerful position of all.
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Women Leaders in Ad Tech on AI, Allyship, and What’s Next for the Industry
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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Tripadvisor’s Ad Express: A Self-Service Playbook for Data and Sustainability
Programmatic has reigned supreme in an advertising ecosystem guided by the principle of reaching scale. But in a cookieless world, direct deals are making a strong comeback. And, automation is key to direct deal’s success. Learn how Tripadvisor leverages self-service tools to grow revenue while going green.
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AdMonsters Publisher Pulse: Ad Ops Reimagined — A Guide to Reshaping Ad Ops With Generative AI
Ad Ops professionals aren’t just dabbling in generative AI; they’re diving in deep and successfully putting it to work to improve their daily jobs and elevate the overall Ad Ops team. It isn’t a surprise that they’ve largely sidestepped the challenges others have faced using generative AI. As tech savvy…
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Publishers Need an Easy Button to Compete with AI-Enabled Platforms
As cookies make open web advertising more complicated, the big tech platforms, especially Google and Meta, are using AI to make buying ads on their platforms easier than ever before. The good news for publishers, though, is that they, too, can use AI to make reaching their highly valuable audiences…
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