AdMonsters December 5, 2019 SSP and DSP Value Is in the Eye of the Publisher As the main feeder exchanges settles at three—GAM, Amazon's Transparent Ad Marketplace (TAM), and Prebid—there’s a great deal more murkiness in the middle; even more cross-pollination as SSPs pine for advertiser spend and DSPs…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 21, 2019 Interrupting Regularly Scheduled Programming: Privacy Regulations and the Emerging T/V Ecosystem T/V is in a period of rapid expansion for digitally delivered offerings from major new video streaming services. 28 such branded services will be out by this time next year. There are seven touchpoints…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 14, 2019 PubForum Wrap-Up: An Internet of Individuals “Let’s not talk about users anymore,” commented WarnerMedia’s Amit Chaturvedi during his Tuesday morning Publisher Forum keynote on thriving during momentous shifts. “Let’s convert them to fans.” That may have seemed like the kind of thing you’d say to…
Read MoreAdMonsters November 8, 2019 AdMonsters Playbook: Life Beyond Cookies Much of the contemporary Internet—and certainly digital advertising—has been built upon tools for data transference. While the cookie has been key in the development of digital advertising and programmatic transactions in particular, the architecture is not going to collapse without…
Read MoreAdMonsters October 31, 2019 The Great Migration: Major TV Players Moving to Branded Streaming—Here's What it Means For the Ad Ecosystem The streaming wars are really heating up. While Netflix maintains its stronghold—significantly increasing subscribers in Q3—analysts predict that most subscribers will hang on, with some opting to become multi-streaming…
Read MoreAdMonsters October 17, 2019 CCPA: Costly Confusion for Publishers and Advertisers—A Conversation With David J. Moore, CEO, BritePool While California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra has released his guide for how companies should comply with CCPA and Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven amendments providing more clarity around the regulation, studies…
Read MoreAdMonsters October 10, 2019 Chasing Down the Runaway Media Sales Train Life comes at you fast—in no area is that truer than media sales. As a guide to keep pace with this runaway train, CloudSense has assembled “The Modern Media Executive’s Playbook,” which lays out not only the fallout from fragmented…
Read MoreAdMonsters October 3, 2019 Ad Quality Climbs the Ladder as Clean.io Syncs Deal With Xandr The question long asked at AdMonsters events: why does the ad quality burden fall solely on publishers? Fortunately, that weight is finally being shared by others in the supply chain. Slowly but surely, exchanges…
Read MoreAdMonsters September 26, 2019 Unified Auction Brings High Anxiety to GAM City Before the news of Google’s ad department reorganization broke, publishers had already been getting quite itchy over the machinations of Google Ad Manager. Now outgoing Director of Product Development Jason Bigler officially announced in a blog a few…
Read MoreAdMonsters September 19, 2019 Meetup Debrief: It's Time to Get Creative On September 18, 2019, AdMonsters brought together an illustrious panel (Time to Get Creative), featuring Derek Gatts, Vice President, Ad Product CNN, Katie Spagnuolo, Associate Director, Media Strategy & Distribution, TripAdvisor and Ron Duque, Senior Director, Revenue Operations,…
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