Andrew Byrd
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Campaigns
Inside Godiva’s Plan to Reinvent a 100-Year-Old Brand
Godiva is celebrating its 100 years with a centennial glow-up and swanky new campaign starring the actress Leighton Meester. Angela Fotopoulos, Marketing Director, Godiva, Pladis Americas, dishes on all the details.
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AI
The NYT Boasts Promising Results After One Year Testing Its BrandMatch AI Product
The New York Times now has a full year under its belt running BrandMatch. I caught up with Valerio Poce, the NYT’s executive director of ad product marketing, to see what’s working, what’s hype and what’s ahead.
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AI
Reworking the Publisher Stack: The Top Publisher Stories That Shaped 2025
2025 forced publishers and ad ops teams out of passivity and into strategic survival mode. Our eight most popular articles of 2025 reflect how publishers navigated each challenge and where the industry might go next.
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AI
The Best Of This Year’s Sell Side Summits: Three Takeaways Publishers Need To Know
In 2025, AdMonsters transformed our Publisher Forum into the Sell Side Summit. But we still covered the highs and lows of the digital publishing business. Here’s a recap of the lessons we learned.
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Decoder
California Dreamin’ Of Privacy: What The Opt Me Out Act Means For Publishers
California’s new Opt Me Out Act ushers in a one-click, browser-level opt-out that will reshape how publishers monetize audiences and manage data.
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AI
How Publisher Cohorts Help Sites Band Together To Fight Traffic-Stealing AI
For this week’s newsletter, we’ll dive deep into the topic of publisher cohorts. It’s a subject that Justin Barton, CEO of AdGrid Media, brought to our attention at an AdMonsters Sell Side Summit a few years back.
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AI
Hot Topics, Straight Talk: A 2025 Year-End Rundown with Jounce Media’s Chris Kane
Chris Kane, founder of Jounce Media, joined AdMonsters for a lively conversation dissecting this year’s buzziest trends, the latest developments in the Google antitrust trial, and what keeps publishers up at night.
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AI
MediaMint’s AI Agent Puts A Fresh Spin On Simplifying Ad Ops
MediaMint designed the new agentic AI product, Mia. Think of Mia as a set of customizable AI tools built to streamline ad ops, assist media planning, and automate campaign grunt work.
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AI
Sell Side Summit Austin: The Publisher’s Rough Road to Programmatic Resilience
At Sell Side Summit Austin, publishers explored how AI, first-party data, and diversified ad tech stacks are helping them reclaim control.
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AI
Inside The House Of Horrors: How Publishers Are Confronting Their Deepest Monetization Fears
Step inside, if you dare. It’s Halloween, and publishers are coming face to face with their deepest fears, from AI apparitions to shadowy supply chains to invalid traffic lurking in plain sight.