Scott Messer, Principal and Founder of Messer Media, explores the latest challenges facing publishers in the ever-evolving SEO game. As Google's search algorithms shift, many publishers are grappling with decreased traffic and increased competition. Delving into the core issues, including the "Tsunami of Crap" and "Enshittification" of content, Google's prioritization…
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Continuously establishing the right CPM floors to earn the highest revenue for your ad inventory without sacrificing fill rate is simply impossible to do manually. But it is possible to automate through dynamic flooring.
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Digital publishers rely heavily on advertising revenue to ensure their businesses will succeed. However, managing ad operations can not only be time-consuming and costly, but it can also be a very complicated process, particularly for those who are not well versed in the nuances of the ad ops world, especially…
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Now that Google Ad Manager is bridging the gap with prebid, will it affect a setup that already exists? While the fact that ad servers will no longer need to be filled with line items to heighten header bidding demand is a plus for publishers, there's some concern that it…
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Up until a year ago, Einat Naveh’s days were spent knee-deep in spreadsheets. Back then she was a senior manager working in Digital Ad Sales and Finance Business Intelligence at Viacom and was responsible for providing the company with data regarding its digital ad sales revenue. In August 2019, she discovered Burt…
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With impression data pulled directly from Google Ad Manager over the course of 2020 — including transaction trends, global viewership insights, and even details about live streaming performance — Google Ad Manager's Session on Advanced TV at our recent PubForum Virtual didn’t disappoint. It also covered some best practices for…
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We decided now was a perfect time to survey publishers to understand their current header (and Open Bidding) setups while seeing what they were plotting for an ambiguous future. We asked 35 publishers of various sizes and content verticals to fill out an intense questionnaire, and the results were extremely…
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When two digital media vets like AdMonsters Chairman Rob Beeler and Craig Leshen, President of OAO, sit down to catch up, it’s not hard to find them comparing the early days to today and even the future. OAO works with many, many publishers and so we always value Craig’s perspective…
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Before the news of Google’s ad department reorganization broke, publishers had already been getting quite itchy over the machinations of Google Ad Manager. Now outgoing Director of Product Development Jason Bigler officially announced in a blog a few weeks ago what publishers had been hearing from their GAM account managers: the…
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Back when Google announced that the melding of DFP and AdX was complete and Google Ad Manager (GAM to those who know it best... Well, really still DFP) was born, we were skeptical that a new monster had arrived on the publisher-side monetization scene. Well, from what we heard at…
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