AdMonsters October 30, 2020 Pandemic Pushes Self-Serve Ad Tech 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…
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Our interest in the federal government’s antitrust suit against Google took a huge dive when we learned it would be centered around search. While mainstream publications trotted out the tired descriptor “landmark” for the headlines when the suit became public, many of us in the industry shook our heads and…
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October 27, 2020 Apple's SKAdNetwork Has Major Bugs What the FLoC? Apple's SKAdNetwork Has Major Bugs Image sourced from Apple It turns out that Apple may have been a little dishonest with their reasoning behind delaying IDFA changes until 2021. They originally said it was because developers weren't ready for…
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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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1 pm EDT Before Chrome announced it was ending support for third-party tracking cookies, Insider Inc. was ahead of the curve, launching a bold new first-party data platform with great fanfare. Now as the consequences of the cookie’s death become clear to advertisers—and the industry re-organizes in the wake of…
Read MoreAdMonsters October 22, 2020 Advertising Management Should Be More Like E-Z Pass Lanes Between Dev and Ops AdMonsters Advisory Board Chairman, Rob Beeler was introduced to the concept of an Advertising Management System that allows ad operations to manage header bidding settings and even keep up on the latest…
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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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Magnite recently released a new proposal in Google's Privacy Sandbox called PARRROT. We reached out to Garrett McGrath, VP of Product Management at Magnite, to sort out all of these birds so we can figure out how each of them might shape the future of advertising—either separately or together.
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October 20, 2020 IAB Europe Fails GDPR Standard Ecommerce on the Rise Ad Tech IPO Rumors Abound TCF Fails GDPR Standard Image sourced from Twitter This is big news y’all. The Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD-GBA) has conducted an investigation of the IAB and its Transparency Consent Framework and found…
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John Shankman, CEO of Hashtag Labs, introduced us to the concept of an Advertising Management System. Much like a Content Management Systems (CMS) is for editors to update the website, an Advertising Management System (AMS) like HTL BID allows ad operations to manage header bidding settings and even keep up…
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