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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Publishers are under constant pressure, not only to maintain revenue but also to increase it. Many sites still rely heavily on programmatic advertising revenue for the lion's share of their income. So what should publishers do? Andy Evans, former CMO of Sovrn found answers to that question when he attended…
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As industry players are pondering the usefulness of the upfront in the digital age and digital publishers are bowing out of the NewFronts, Hulu pretty much gave a master class in how to do it right. The presentation was quite an inside look at the potential—or perhaps the fast-approaching future—of…
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We talk to an awful lot of publishers at our Publisher Forums and other events. And in those conversations, we get deep into the weeds with them about their frustrations—like ad fraud, ad impression discrepancies, and ad quality. But we also speak with them about all the things that work…
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Though her path to the publishing industry may seem unconventional, Dr. Deepna Devkar’s journey from academia to the corporate world has always been on a data-driven trajectory. During her keynote at the Miami Publisher Forum on Mar. 11, “Experimenting in the Revenue Lab With Data Science,” the Head of Data…
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Worried that mobile traffic's rise will decrease desktop revenue? It just might, but there are definitely loads of opportunities -- like working with news aggregators and social networks -- to make up for the loss while meeting your audience on their mobile-first journey.
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Speaking of transparency—or the lack thereof—plenty of questions linger around the FBI raiding a major holding company's offices as it steps up its investigation into rebates and kickbacks in digital advertising. Gabe Greenberg suggests that if we're going to circle the wagons as the g-men close in, the industry should…
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In its eye-opening new report on ad quality , Confiant finds that 1 out of every 200 ad impressions from the open exchanges is malvertising. If 1 trillion ads are being served through the open marketplace monthly, Confiant estimates that 5 billion are malicious. Make sure you have smelling salts…
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The other day I published an interview with Kind Ads adviser Neil Patel on the workings of a decentralized ad network leveraging a blockchain. When I tried to boost my Facebook post of the story, the platform denied me, stating that it does not run ads related to cryptocurrencies. I pleaded…
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We were told brands were going to displace agencies and undertake programmatic media buying on their own. It didn't happen according to the schedule many had predicted. But it's happening now. Mike Hans of Forge Group catches us up on where we've been, and what's changing today.
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