May 14, 2020
 
Behold the 8th Wonder of the World: The Identity Pyramid
One of the most important reasons for publishers to jump on the identity train is to get connected to the advertisers' bigger targeting picture. To understand just how identity accomplishes this, behold the Identity Pyramid. This lists the various identity signals in terms of prevalence (most at the bottom) and value (least valuable at the bottom, most at the top). Click here to behold its gloriousness. Read more.
Goodway Group's Friedman Says Pubs Gotta Meet Agencies in the Middle
AdMonsters Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway asked Goodway Group's Jay Friedman about the agency perspective as many advertisers turned off the spend faucets with the pandemic settling in. He got a whole lot more, as Jay ties the digital advertising milieu to the larger global economic picture, while also digging into publisher-marketer relationships during the pandemic; the fate of holding companies (as well as smaller agencies); and how maybe this crisis could change the industry for the better. Listen now! 
Intensely Investigating Identity Issues
On top of their pandemic woes, publishers need to begin preparing for Life Beyond Cookies—key to that will be identity marketing and traffic authentication, but our most recent PubForum in Santa Monica showed there's a great deal of confusion about these concepts. To prepare for our webinar on Debunking Authentication Myths on Wednesday, May 20 (register now!), Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway caught up with LiveRamp SVP and Head of Publishers Jason White to clear up some questions about identity, privacy, and... and well, just exactly what role LiveRamp serves in the digital advertising ecosystem. Read more.
Top Stories
Marfeel asked AdMonster Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway to lead a programmatic panel with heavy hitters from Leaf Group, PreBid.org, Amnet, and more. As you can imagine, it's highly engaging—the talk circles around how the programmatic ecosystem is adjusting in the pandemic fallout, especially with The Trade Desk's demand that exchanges and SSPs de-dupe auctions, and how it was going to look after we weathered this crisis (whenever that may be). Of course, they couldn't talk about the latter without discussing the future of targeting and measuring with the cookie out the door. Watch now! 
Traffic is up. Ad revenues are down. COVID-19 has turned publishing on its head, and publishers are scrambling to find new ways to diversify revenues under changing conditions. It’s not impossible. It’s just different. The ever-evolving media landscape is accelerating down an unexpected course. Here’s what we can do about it. Read more.
In this week's issue:
  • Just How Broken is the Programmatic Supply Chain?
  • Cage Match: SPARROW vs. TURTLEDOVE
  • The Crisis Inside the Crisis
  • Agencies Slash Umpteen Jobs
  • UX Key to Pubs' Growth
Read more.
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