Consumer trust in social media is greatly waning thanks to the fake news outbreak. It only makes sense that audiences are now turning back to trusted publishers, but they’re doing it in an interesting way. Rather than visiting the home page of their favorite publishers, they’re subscribing to their email…
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In-housing—programmatic and creative—and social responsibility campaigns were the hottest brand issues at the 2019 Cannes Lions festival. Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway shares his discoveries in each category... While warning yacht-goers about rogue saxophonists.
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As the word “Addressable!” echoed from beach to yacht to luxury suite across La Croisette in Cannes, a solidly digital friend asked me, “What does that even mean?” I smirked and replied, “It’s a TV industry term for what digital people consider programmatic TV-buying, and it looks like digital is…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 27, 2019 Are Programmatic Demand Vendors Becoming An Endangered Species? Are programmatic demand vendors becoming an endangered species like the Sirocco Kakapo parrot? Well, if they're not careful they just might be. Many SSPs aren't giving publishers the data they need to optimize their programmatic yield and meet…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 20, 2019 How to Earn Your Audience’s Attention: Vox Media’s Ryan Pauley on Building a Brand That Matters “The average user scrolls through 300-feet worth of news feeds every day—that’s the height of the statue of liberty,” explains Ryan Pauley, CRO of Vox Media, citing one of…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 13, 2019 Ops Is Community At the 2019 Ops conference, a somewhat unexpected word echoed throughout the sessions, from the morning keynote to the final talk: community. The idea of audience is out-of-date, and the term too limiting. Publishers and brands need to be thinking about their…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 31, 2019 Will Blockchain Solution Providers Tame the Cannes Lion? The road to Cannes is paved with many changes this year. You can certainly expect to see and hear a fair amount from companies developing next-generation media, marketing, and advertising solutions underpinned with blockchain and cryptography. Solutions…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 23, 2019 Blockchain Leads the Transparency Brigade: Lucidity's Miguel Morales During its short time bouncing around the ad-tech echoplex, blockchain has run the full hype cycle: from "the next big thing" to "running joke" and now "potentially legit." Tech startups are finally deploying actionable and scalable solutions to a variety of problems,…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 16, 2019 Does the Network Television Upfront Still Matter in a Digital World? The long-standing ritual of TV network television upfront presentations are now running for the 2019-2010 season, with the major networks wrapping up these showcases from Monday, May 14 through Thursday, May 17, 2019. New…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 9, 2019 Ops Turns 10 The day before Ops 10 years ago, AdMonsters Founder, Bowen Dwelle, had an epiphany: Ops is Sexy. We had never discussed this kind of messaging before, says AdMonsters Chairman, Rob Beeler. All I knew is that I was going to find myself…
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