Slowly but steadily, the trade show and events industry is taking tangible steps towards a more sustainable future, and making it easier for brands to meet their sustainability goals, or just be more responsible exhibitors, because it’s the right thing to do. Suppliers are putting systems in place that are becoming industry standards. Environmentally friendly […]

Amazon announced Wednesday it’s building a dedicated Prebid adapter. The move signals that Prebid has firmly established itself as the industry standard. 

In our conversation, Brandi Boatner shares candid insights on the power of cultural intelligence, the importance of trust in this AI-driven communications era, and why proactive PR is more vital than ever.

At POSSIBLE 2025, Megan Jones, Chief Media Officer at Digitas, rolled back the covers on scroll culture, AI shortcuts, and the strategy-first mindset brands need to stop chasing metrics and start making moments.

Google and Amazon compete for people’s time and wallets, and for advertisers’ budgets. And on Wednesday, they both kicked off their marketing industry conferences and announced a round of big ad tech news focused on how they’re trying to differentiate their offerings to the industry. Here’s a breakdown of the important takeaways from Google Marketing […]

The rise of digital media offered the promise of paying for advertising based on definable, measurable impressions. Finally, decades of basing TV and radio advertising on limited survey models were coming to an end.  While surveys left advertisers with no insight into who was actually seeing their ads, the new digital advertising environment allowed advertisers […]

At POSSIBLE 2025, Yahoo CRO Rob Wilk shared the company’s “greatest hits with new tracks” approach to reinvention—and explained why client loyalty, not hype, is the real signal of success. Yahoo’s been around for three decades. But that doesn’t mean we should mistake staying power for standing still. At POSSIBLE 2025, AdMonsters sat down with […]

Microsoft’s decision to shutter its Xandr DSP, formerly AppNexus, a pioneer in programmatic advertising, is reverberating throughout the ad tech industry.  As Microsoft itself puts it: “Our commitment to more private and personalized advertising experiences for a conversational and agentic world is not achievable with the industry’s current DSP model and, therefore, it no longer […]

Could Google’s embrace of attention metrics help the industry evolve past easily manipulated viewability measurement? Danny Zhu, director of digital and performance marketing at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America, thinks so. Google DV360 adding Adelaide’s Attention Unit (AU) metric as an optimization signal is “going to be a game changer for us,” Zhu told […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Nostalgia Malls, Hound Lounges and Fizz Mobs.