Fixing the Leaky Revenue Pipe Between Brands and Publishers
Somewhere between an advertiser’s media plan and the publisher’s page, a lot of money seems to disappear. It slips through the cracks of the ad tech supply chain.
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Bidstream Congestion: Cracking the Ad Tech Supply Chain Code
Bidstream congestion happens when multiple publishers send the same ad impression through different supply paths, resulting in redundant auction entries that DSPs need to sift through. DSPs process approximately 30 million bid requests per second, a number that grows as publishers try to ensure their inventory gets noticed by the right…
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Check My Ads, Check My Transparency, and Check My Disinformation: Notes From AdMonsters Publisher Forum Boston
In her keynote address at Publisher Forum Boston, Claire Atkin, Co-founder and CEO of Check My Ads, called for increased transparency in digital advertising to prevent disinformation, support quality journalism, and help bolster publisher revenue.
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Best of AdMonsters: Your Favorite Stories of 2023
AdMonsters YOY traffic has grown immensely. To mark this milestone, we're sharing a list of some of the most-read AdMonsters articles from 2023. From the challenges of Seller Defined Audiences, to data monetization in an era of ID deprecation, to a path to net zero, to how publishers can safely…
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Escaping the Trap: Supply Path Optimization Can Create Transparency and Increase Efficiency
A panel at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O in New York City on September 26 titled “The SPO Squeeze” dove into this subject headfirst. The chat was moderated by Sarah Sluis, Executive Editor, AdExchanger, and featured Jess Breslav, Chief Customer Officer, Index Exchange; Will Doherty, VP Inventory Development, Publishers, The Trade Desk;…
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Musings on the Bloated Supply Chain
All of the bloat in the supply chain has been caused by a lack of understanding that the internet and any website is an ecosystem. We have been building the web ecosystem in silos not realizing that when we make changes in one place it has an impact on the others.
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Ahead of His Time: How “Grouchy” Greg Watkins Leveraged the Power of the Internet Into a Successful Publishing Career
The urban advertising system was basically nonexistent until the year 2000, which is when AllHipHop.com began to dive into the world of online ads. Watkins notes, “I helped launch our first ad server. I bought it off the Internet, ‘software as a service.’” He began launching ad campaigns, doing the…
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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 strategies in the mid-2010s, it immediately led to rapid growth in the number and…
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Third-party Tracking Got Advertisers Deep Into Debt; Now It’s Time to Repay
Ad platforms spent the 2010’s rapidly innovating new ways to target, personalize, and measure advertising, largely based on third-party (3P) tracking. Money poured in from advertisers and agencies looking to shed the waste and uncertainty of traditional media and optimize campaigns right down to the user level. And today, digital…
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Making the Unknowns Known: A Media Buyer’s Guide to Supply Chain Transparency
In the wake of the ISBA Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study, there was immediate focus on who was most adversely affected, as well as the mysterious unknown delta. While these are interesting data points, MightyHive's Head of Media Activation, Rachel Adams, was taken aback by another issue—how difficult it was…
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