Cleaning out my apartment to prepare for a new family member, I came across an old, dusty travel mug that I don’t think had ever been used. (Travel mugs are useless for an espresso snob like moi.) Emblazoned on its side was a DoubleClick logo so old that I honestly…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 28, 2018 I Went to Cannes Lions and All I Got Are These Hot Takes The ad industry is changing, and so is Cannes Lions. With header bidding altering the way agencies do business, branded content in high demand, and GDPR doing... whatever it's doing, publishers and…
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With AT&T ready to acquire AppNexus, are the duopoly's days numbered? It's too soon to tell. But with Congress broadening ISPs' capacity to handle user data, the big telecoms are in a position to create end-to-end ad buying solutions. And, says Gavin Dunaway, that's exactly what advertisers want.
Read MoreAdMonsters June 21, 2018 Three Pillars of Ad Quality: Beyond Redirects It's not your imagination—the redirect problem has been peaking in 2018. Publishers are turning to sandboxing as a fix. But sandboxing is only the beginning, considering redirects are just one of many ad quality concerns that need to…
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Brian LaRue reports back from an Ops panel that brought even more color and insight to the discussion about demand partner evaluation and ad quality. Even though AdMonsters just published a playbook on the subject, Ops shows us there's always more to add to the conversation.
Read MoreAdMonsters June 14, 2018 Let's Have Some Fun: Photos and Tweets From Ops 2018 Ops 2018 was a learning experience, and a deep one. But the cool thing about Ops is, we have fun with it. We pulled some of the best on-site photos and Tweets from June 4-5…
Read MoreAdMonsters June 7, 2018 AdMonsters Playbook: Demand Partner Evaluation and Ad Quality We listened to the conversations publishers had about how they're treating relationships with demand partners. We launched a survey for pubs to tell us more. And now!... This new playbook, developed with GeoEdge, lays out new ground…
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Over the last few years, technological developments in the ad ecosystem have evolved to allow more publishers of varying sizes to add more demand partners into their stacks. What’s more, the economic realities digital ad marketplace have brought us to a point where integrating with more than just a few…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 31, 2018 Ops 2018: The Hour Is Nigh! Ops 2018 is right around the corner, coming June 4-5 to the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC. While you're getting amped for six simultaneous tracks of sessions, don't snooze on these: Our midday main-room panel features Lee Brown (BuzzFeed), Keith…
Read MoreAdMonsters May 24, 2018 AdMonsters Announces the 2018 Power List Your peers have spoken, your nominations have been pored over, and now the AdMonsters 2018 Power List has been announced. We'll be honoring the 58 people who made the list, for professional excellence and influence in digital media and…
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