There are genuine MFA shoppers out there and that brands that advertise with MFAs may find enthusiastic audiences. However, there are limits to their enjoyment of ads. While some shoppers like advertising — and seek it out with online circulars and clicking on sites the industry calls MFAs — there’s…
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2024 promises to be a year of rapid innovation, with publishers rethinking what’s possible. From looking at attention as The New Metric to driving higher attention rates with Innovative Ad Formats & Ad Placements to harnessing the power of their first-party data to leaning into Indirect Monetization partners and ensuring…
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Made For Advertising (MFA) sites are becoming more of a problem for the ad tech industry as they increase in prevalence. Currently, MFA sites account for at least one in five online impressions, consuming 15% of global programmatic ad spend and generating 26% more carbon waste than legitimate publisher sites.
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In 2014, the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) was established to cultivate confidence and trust in digital advertising by facilitating collaboration among players across the supply chain to uphold quality and brand safety standards.
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At an AdMonsters Ops session on June 6th, “AI + Malvertising = ?,” attendees heard from Jerome Dangu, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Confiant, and Louis-David Mangin, CEO and Co-Founder, Confiant, about how AI is affecting ad tech and how we can stay aware of what is to come.
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The scales have tipped, and programmatic has become more of a liability than an asset. Last year, Bloomberg News made headlines when it announced it was pulling the plug on open programmatic, citing bad ads and the impact they had on the reader’s experience. We surveyed 250 consumers about the…
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From 2022 to 2023, GeoEdge monitored and analyzed billions of live advertising impressions across premium websites, apps, and SSPs to assess the overall ad quality in today’s digital ecosystem. The results, published in GeoEdge’s Q1 Ad Quality Report are worrying, which is why Yuval Shiboli, Director of Product Marketing is…
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While the world frets about the possibility of a recession, one positively flourishing sector is the bot economy. To learn more about today’s bot networks and how the industry can work together to limit their damage, Admonsters spoke with Zach Edwards, Senior Manager of Threats Insight for HUMAN.
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Lotame announced the launch of its new data platform at IAB ALM. In collaboration with various customer data platforms (CPDs), the tech enables interoperability and data portability across brand and media owner tech stacks. We spoke with Alex Theriault, General Manager, Spherical at Lotame. We discussed Spherical, the difficulty accessing…
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Last year, advertisers spent over $327 billion targeting users as they engaged with popular mobile apps, but as HUMAN Security announced yesterday, a chunk of that spending went into the pockets of fraudsters who successfully launched a massive ad fraud scheme.
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