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In 2020, AdMonsters launched the Wrapper Newsletter. Our aim: To summarize exciting news items that catch our eyes and link them to wider developments in digital media and advertising. This list is a compilation of readers’ favorite Wrapper stories from 2023.

The digital audio advertising marketplace is experiencing massive growth, and technological advances are attracting increasing advertiser interest. Still, there’s one crucial area for improvement in this tech evolution – audio ad measurement.

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 enhance their products with AI — we had you covered.

Thanks to their dominance, Google, Meta, and Amazon will continue to attract the lion’s share of the advertiser’s budget. Over the next few years, they will account for 83% of global digital advertising revenue. Regulators across the globe are doing all they can to stop the dominance, of course, but Big Tech shows no sign of going down without a fight. While 2023 was a year for antitrust suits filed and in some cases lost, 2024 will be a year when key decisions will be made and appealed. It will also be a year when the impact of sweeping regulations in the EU may be felt.

In 2023, the ad tech industry was preparing for many significant shifts — Chrome cookie deprecation, the generative AI takeover, and supply chain complexity — but we had leaders guiding the industry and learning from one another. Here is the list of the AdMonsters keynotes that shaped 2023.

At a time when more competition exists amongst streaming media services, Disney Advertising landed on a strategy to accelerate access to Disney+ AVOD inventory when the publisher launched its Disney Campaign Manager. In 2023, over 4,500 advertisers and 1,000 agencies transacted on Disney Campaign Manager, with many of those brands being first-time streaming advertisers.

This year, our Decoder series covered the gamut —- iOS 17 privacy updates, state privacy laws, and supply path optimization. If you missed them or want a chance to revisit them, here are the top AdMonsters’ Decoder stories from 2023.

The ANA’s Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study finally elevates the role that systemic “information asymmetries” play in allowing programmatic waste to persist.

We dove headfirst into the hottest topics of this past year and peeked into the crystal ball for 2024, all in the company of the ever-insightful Chris Kane at our AdMonsters 2023 Recap LinkedIn Live.

A new CIMM + 4As report offers a methodological approach for assessing privacy liabilities, as well as established and emerging solutions to help TV advertisers launch privacy-compliant campaigns.