Well, 2021 was another rollercoaster, wasn’t it? Filled with exciting wins but also internal shrieks (or outbursts, no judgment) of frustration, and the ad tech industry was no exception. As we countdown the last days of the year and the Omnicron variant attempts to make us nosedive into 2022, we’re…
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Powered by: December 22, 2021 IAB Europe's TCF Problems Get Bigger Regrets, Identity Vendors May Have Had a Few Problems for IAB Europe's TCF Get Bigger, Go Deeper Whenever European residents visit an ad-supported website, they are bombarded with pop-ups asking for confirmation of privacy choices. They have been…
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2021 brought a lot of change in digital media in advertising. But not everything was about the ill-fated third-party cookie. This year, our playbooks focused on data, identity, and privacy. But ad quality is still a troublesome thing, especially in mobile apps. And let's not forget the friction between different…
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Missed an AdMonsters Webinar in 2021 that you really wanted to tune into live? Don't worry, we got you covered. AdMonsters webinars are available on-demand, so you can view them any time, on your own schedule. 2021 webinars covered the most pressing issues facing the digital media and advertising industry,…
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AdMonsters teamed up with OpenX to address the ever-changing advertising ecosystem, along with the many obstacles publishers currently face with keeping fill rates and CPMs high. How can the open web both survive and thrive in the coming years? We looked at three distinct areas — Prebid, First-party Data and…
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On September 20th, 2021, Apple released iOS 15, an operating system update introducing three new privacy features to Apple devices: Hide my Email, Private Relay, and Mail Privacy Protection (MPP). This update, and these features, in particular, alter how and what data publishers (and third parties) can collect. While Apple's…
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Powered by: December 08, 2021 Ad Spend Going Up? An Embarrassment of Identity Choices Will Birds of Different Feathers FLoC Together? Ad Spend Increases More Than Predicted. Good News for Publishers? Image sourced from Mediapost Consumers hear supply chain issues and walk past empty store shelves and think that…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 13, 2021 Webinar Replay: No Third-party Cookies, No Problem: Ranker on First-party Data in a Privacy-safe World How can publishers turn RFP requests into privacy-first, first-party data strategies? That's what we learned at our recent webinar, No Third-party Cookies, No Problem: Ranker on First-party Data in a…
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As the ad tech ecosystem evolves and the need for an omnichannel approach becomes ever more pressing, both advertisers and publishers are becoming more thoughtful about which platforms they work with and how. Publishers, in particular, have been decreasing their number of SSP partners over the past few quarters. Findings…
Read MoreAdMonsters December 3, 2021 Best Practices for Ensuring High-Quality Inventory & Ads We’ve all heard the stories about ad placements that make brand managers cringe: ads for respectable brands appearing in terrorist recruitment videos, and the like. Obviously, marketers want to avoid such placements. But that’s just a start.…
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