On July 7, 2021, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Privacy Act (aka CPA or ColoPA depending on who you ask) into law. This makes Colorado the third state — joining California and Virginia — to pass comprehensive privacy legislation. Publishers and marketers will need to comply by July…
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AdMonsters July 8, 2021 The Future—and Present—of Bidstream Efficiency Lies with Traffic Shaping While there are multiple reasons for the growing inefficiencies in the ad buying process, one of the fundamental reasons can be traced to the widespread adoption of header bidding. When publishers first began using header bidding…
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Powered by: July 7, 2021 Data Export Crackdown Underway Supply Chain Validation Gets a Boost How WFH Shaped Ad Blocking Big Tech, Hot Seat Around the Water Cooler Senator Plans Crackdown on Ad Tech Data Sharing With Foreign Adversaries The global real-time bidding (RTB) ad marketplace is a hotbed…
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Now that the third-party tracking cookie will remain on life support, at least for another year, what's next for publishers? While many ad tech industry insiders feel strongly that most cookie alternatives weren't exactly ready for the cookiepocalypse anyway, most all agree that it's definitely not time for publishers to press…
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AdMonsters June 10, 2021 Publishers Navigate the Weight of Heavy Ad Intervention Conversations about the impact of heavy ads on load times and the end-user experience are nothing new to the digital publishing industry. Still, many in the business were caught off guard in Fall 2020 when Google Chrome…
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What makes an ad product strategy successful? When was the last time your suite was updated? In a recent AdMonsters Think Tank hosted by Celtra, publishers shared how they define success, upgrades made through the years, and what works best. Countless creative options sound great on paper, but when an…
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How do publishers centralize vendor management? What are their biggest challenges in developing a revenue strategy across multiple brands and sites? These, along with how publishers are preparing for a post-cookie world, were discussed during a recent Think Tank hosted with The Media Trust.
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LiveIntent recently launched Native Ad Blueprints, a solution for publishers to create scalable premium ad experiences in email newsletters, streamline their native ad operations, and better target, optimize and measure their native campaigns. We spoke with Nick Dujnic, VP, Marketing, LiveIntent to learn more about this new product, as well…
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April 22, 2021 Core Web Vitals Rankings Get Pushed Back a Bit Hey FLoC, Get Off My Block Around the Water Cooler Core Web Vitals Gets Pushed Back (and Most Sites Don’t Rank Well Yet Anyway) If Google’s new Core Web Vitals benchmarks for the “page experience” became the standard…
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In preparation for our upcoming webinar, Unlocking a Creative-First Approach to Social Display, on Thursday, April 22 @ 1 PM EST (Register now!), AdMonsters Advisory Board Chairman, Rob Beeler, spoke with Nikki Gertner, Senior Product Manager, Celtra, about monetizing an advertiser's content from social media, having a range of ad…
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