How can publishers future proof their businesses by turning requests coming in from advertisers into privacy-first, first-party data strategies, especially as the third-party cookie goes away? That's exactly what attendees learned at our recent webinar — No Third-party Cookies, No Problem: Ranker on First-party Data in a Privacy-safe World —…
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November 23, 2021 Privacy Has A Three-Body Problem Hey Meta, Leave Those Teens Alone WarnerMedia Launching Nielsen Competitor in 2022 Online Privacy’s “Three-Body Problem”? MaxwellMolecule, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons We love to hope and believe that things are sacred and protected online — like one’s privacy —…
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November 16, 2021 Apple's Google Play Store Ad Spend Switcheroo In Search of Nielsen Alternatives Ad Targeting Like the Weather Apple Buys App Ads on Google to Grab Publisher Revenue Photo by Artem Podrez from Pexels Apple wants a big piece of that subscription revenue share, so much so that…
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October 13, 2021 The Race to the Bottom Continues Marketers Still Eating the Cookies? The Race to the Bottom Continues We all love loads of irrelevant ads littering our in-app experience,s don’t we? Don’t we? And aren’t they all just great for the industry overall? Aren't they? Well, that seems…
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September 30, 2021 Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education The Funny Treatment WaPo's Digital Ad Network Finally Comes to Life Amazon Follows Apple’s Lead but Is It in the Wrong Direction? Around the Water Cooler Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education the Funny Treatment It’s hard for…
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The sheer number of proposed solutions to the third-party cookie almost guarantees that there will be no single winner and that publishers will need to adopt a multi-point approach to meet the needs of their ad partners. Figuring out what that exact approach needs to be will require serious testing…
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September 02, 2021 Phantom Ad Requests Are Robbing CTV's Ad Dollars Is Apple Really Giving Into App Pubs? The UK Could Be Leaning Into Consumer Choice Phantom Ad Requests Rob CTV of Millions of Ad Dollars Photo by Tara Winstead from Pexels According to eMarketer, 55% of CTV ad budgets…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 20, 2021 The State of Ad Filtering in 2021 The surge in digital media consumption continues. Ad spend is flowing freely beside the traffic stream. Unfortunately, to the dismay of publishers and advertisers alike, ad block usage is on the rise. But ad blockers are becoming ad filterers…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 12, 2021 The Power of First-Party Data Beyond Direct Segment Monetization: A Conversation With Fandom's Mike Racic We spoke with Mike Racic, Global Head of Programmatic and Data, Fandom, about the importance of turning users into consumers or fans, working with the right partners on robust identity…
Read MoreAdMonsters August 6, 2021 How Publishers Can Become Masters of Their First-Party Data Without a cookie reprieve, digital advertising and media monetization will most likely rely on a number of alternatives going forward, and first-party data, in particular, will be key to any future strategies. Harnessing first-party data at…
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