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The digital advertising landscape is undergoing a monumental shift towards privacy-first practices, underscored by the Privacy Sandbox initiative and the critical findings from the “IAB Tech Lab’s Privacy Sandbox: Fit Gap Analysis for Digital Advertising.” It paints a picture of an industry at a crossroads, facing the challenge of reimagining traditional targeting and measurement strategies to embrace innovation, collaboration, and adaptability.

Future Today’s Vikrant Mathur and Jennifer D’Alessandro explore CTV’s untapped goldmine: co-viewing — family programming for marketers. Gone are the days of isolated viewing on tiny screens. Consumers are returning to their living rooms and indulging in the big-screen experience as a full-blown family affair.

With the decline of third-party cookies, data collaboration platforms might be the industry’s answer to improving data’s value. In this Q&A, Alexandra Theriault, Chief Growth Officer, Spherical at Lotame, shares how organizations can leverage data collaboration to access, analyze, and activate data. The tech company recently expanded the offerings for its end-to-end data collaboration platform, Spherical, to allow marketers and media owners to advance the potential of first-party data.

The next wave of privacy regulation revolves around data brokers. And while the term “data broker” may have a negative connotation, its legal definition is fairly straightforward.

Since the ANA revealed last summer that 15% of annual ad spend goes to made-for-advertising (MFA) sites, ad tech vendors have rushed to identify and restrict MFA inventory. In most cases, these anti-MFA solutions focus on finding ad arbitrage networks, such as when MFA publishers pay for native ad placements on more reputable sites. When […]

As cookies make open web advertising more complicated, the big tech platforms, especially Google and Meta, are using AI to make buying ads on their platforms easier than ever before. The good news for publishers, though, is that they, too, can use AI to make reaching their highly valuable audiences easier. Here’s why publishers need to make it easier to buy ads — and what they can do to bridge the gap.

The California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) amended regulations went into effect at the beginning of February, and DoorDash’s civil settlement uncovers challenging privacy terrain ahead for the ad tech industry. 

There is one part of the news organization that finds generative AI extremely useful, and in some instances, transformative: the AdOps team. AdMonsters has begun interviewing AdOps folks across several organizations to see if and how they’re using it. If you’re in AdOps and are using it, we’d love to hear from you.

As new platforms emerge and the lines between CTV, linear and digital continue to blur, advertisers have no shortage of ways to reach consumers – but are they doing so effectively? With a crowded space and elusive viewers bouncing between screens, marketers need to cut through the noise and focus on what really matters in 2024.

As the industry moves away from the use of third-party tracking cookies, there are several solutions taking shape to help target users while keeping their information secure. One of those solutions is alt IDs, which tend to befuddle even the most seasoned players. The most important thing right now in trying to solve the alt ID problem is not to recreate the cookie problem.