In Jounce Media's annual report, 'The State of the Open Internet,' three influential market forces shed light on the obstacles that media companies and advertising technology platforms face: demand concentration, bidstream bloat, and bidstream blindspots. How can we level the playing field between the dominant walled gardens and the rest of the…
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Contextual advertising has yet to reach its peak potential. Cutting-edge advertisers are not merely matching ads to content based on topics. They contextually target ads based on emotion and a granular understanding of the moods of the audiences they want to reach. The technology bringing about this reinvention of contextual…
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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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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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This wide-ranging, intimate discussion brought together a panel of revenue specialists from the US and Europe to talk about what publishers are expecting during the fourth quarter, how they’re preparing for an uncertain future beyond that, and how their audience relationships are evolving. Watch the video now!
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After taking a massive hit from COVID-19, pubs' resiliency led to efficiently working-from-home, successfully diversifying revenue, and employing tools like automation and self-service to manage workflow and capture smaller budget spend. Recently, we chatted with a number of pubs at a roundtable discussion about planning for tomorrow’s very different ad…
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We had a chat with IPONWEB's Publisher Product Lead Wenda Zhou to talk about the current state of programmatic, from header optimization tricks for pubs during the downturn to the effects of de-duping auctions, traffic shaping and SPO.
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Using machine learning for better traffic shaping can mean huge strides forward for healthier ad operations, the future of the programmatic ecosystem and two-sided bid optimization. We sat down with Benjamin Hansz, Vice President Strategy for Simplaex’s Rivr, to discuss traffic shaping.
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The antiquated idea that SSPs are publisher defenders and DSPs are buyer advocates has created a gulf—one might say a black hole of pricing machinations and Russian-Doll-style auctions that threatens to suck away the benefits of the open ecosystem entirely. Key to bridging that gap—or plugging the black hole—is traffic…
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On Wednesdays at Publisher Forums, we let the attendees "take over" the conference. Attendee volunteers lead informal sessions with their peers on a variety of topics, and then report major takeaways to the whole group. Through the magic of technology (cough, Zoom, cough), we ran an experiment where we took this…
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