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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September 23, 2021 The Future of the Internet Is Complicated FTC Coming After Big Tech and How It’s Built The Future of the Internet Is Complicated Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Apple, Google and Facebook really know how to throw a party. We’ve got pop-up ads on our Apple…
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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 08, 2021 The Duopoly in Hot Water With Sen. Warren Nielsen TV Accreditation Gone Bye Bye Is Apple Making Additional Concessions? Google and Facebook on Sen. Warren’s Naughty List Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay Sen. Elizabeth Warren is coming after Google and Facebook hard, writing a letter to…
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AdMonsters Advisory Board Chairman, Rob Beeler, caught up with John Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer at Confiant about some surprising findings in Confiant's Malvertising & Ad Quality Index Q1 2021 report. It seems Google has slipped in the SSP rankings. A perennial strong performer, Google experienced an uncharacteristic setback this quarter.…
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August 26, 2021 What Will Apple's Mail Privacy Protection Mean For Newsletters? Amazon Gets a Boost from Apple's ATT Does the FTC Understand Ad Tech? Newsletter Marketing Under Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection Image by Muhammad Ribkhan from Pixabay Spoiler alert: It’s not pretty. Many publications opine that Apple Mail Privacy…
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We spoke with Dev Pragad, CEO Newsweek, about how the publisher is building better relationships with their audience toward the goal of zero-party data exchange, as well as how they're using LiveRamp's Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) to drive CPMs. We also spoke with Scott Howe, CEO of LiveRamp, to learn more…
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The burden of cost for preemptively identifying and blocking bad ads lies solely at the feet of the publisher. And because this approach often means that blocked ads don’t get filled at all, revenue cannot be recovered. Malvertisers, on the other hand, don’t stand to lose a thing – their…
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August 17, 2021 NY Times Goes All in on Newsletters User-Agent String Deprecation Delayed, But Soon NPR Debuts Real-Time Diversity Tracker NYT Goes All in on Tiered Newsletters Image sourced from the NYTimes The New York Times is banking on newsletters to continue elevating its subscriber base. Approximately one-third of…
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