When third-party cookies go away, authenticated users will by definition be in short supply, forcing advertisers to pay more to reach their target audiences. What about users who won’t log in and authenticate, a.k.a. the majority of audiences? That’s where the Privacy Sandbox comes in, to help with guests. Achieving this…
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December 22, 2020 Now That's a Real Antitrust Suit Taboola to Repay Pubs Whopping $16 Million Facbook / Apple Beef Revs Up Unified ID 2.0 Gets First Pub Commitment Were Facebook and Google Colluding Against Everybody? Image sourced from Twitter If you haven’t heard the one about how Google and…
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December 16, 2020 Business as Usual at Facebook? What If Google Had No Doubleclick? Apple's Privacy Labels Are Super Scary For Facebook, It’s Just Business as Usual By now you’ve likely caught the latest episode in the saga that is Facebook: The Telenovela. Each week gets just a little bit…
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Ad Tech is a neverending world of acronyms, alphabet soup and technical mumbo jumbo. With our handy decoder ring, AdMonsters Decoder series decodes the latest terminology to enter the ad tech lexicon. This year, everyone was most concerned about privacy regulations, methods for uncovering incremental revenue, as well as what…
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The year 2020 has been a wild ride for digital media and ad tech. It was a year of great uncertainty, overshadowed by privacy regulations like CCPA and CPRA and privacy updates being made in Google Chrome and Apple iOS. And all the while, everyone was prepping (or confused about…
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At this week's PubForum+, speakers drilled down into granular questions around Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) restrictions and Google’s sunsetting of third-party cookies, however, larger questions loomed about the potential for federal privacy regulation, the broader impact of the recently-passed Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and more.
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December 09, 2020 Amazon Is Gunning For Google's Spot Google Launches Ad Block Attack Hashed Emails Will Not Take IDFA's Place Amazon’s 2019 Ad Spend Spree Is Still Paying Off Image sourced from eMarketer The old adage: “You have to spend money to make money,” couldn’t have worked out any…
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December 01, 2020 More Antitrust Suits Flying In Another Day, Another ID Facebook's Latest Measurement Mea Culpa More Antitrust Suits in the Wings If you’ve recovered from your disenchantment following the release of the Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google, GOOD NEWS! The Wall Street Journal reports that federal…
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Visitor Relationship Management presents an opportunity for quality publishers to stop thinking in vertical, siloed ways about competing adtech, data, privacy and audience fiefdoms and priorities. Instead, VRM is a horizontal approach to thinking about the visitor relationship, revenue and experience.
Read MoreAdMonsters November 25, 2020 Complex Runs With a Different Revenue Model “We haven’t always been a big fan of programmatic or arbitrage-oriented stuff,” says Rich Antoniello, Founder and CEO of digital media company Complex Networks. During his PubForum+ keynote, “Tomorrow's Publisher Today,” on Tuesday, December 8, Antoniello will share how…
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