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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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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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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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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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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.
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A Novel Approach To AI Search: Pay Publishers For Their Content
Search.com has introduced a publisher-first AI search and chat tool that promises something radical in today’s ecosystem: compensation and consent.
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Oswald Méndez Details Diego, The AI Behind Canela Media’s Audience Rewards Program
For Oswald Méndez, every day as CMO of Canela Media looks different, and that’s precisely what he loves about the job.
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Publishers vs. AI: Dealmaking and Rulemaking
The shift to AI-driven content discovery are hurting publishers, small and large. Norine Rogers, founder of the recipe site Norine’s Nest, said unregulated AI has become an existential threat to her business.
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Singing The AI Scraping Blues At Sell Side Summit Nashville
The Nashville Sell Side Summit theme “Beyond the Browser,” resonated with publisher concerns around AI-powered, zero-click answer engines and the need to meet audiences outside of their own websites, which are receiving less referral traffic from search and social.
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Olyzon.tv Sees Through The CTV Chaos Using Contextual AI
When Jules Minvielle, co-founder and CEO of Olyzon.tv, launched his third ad tech startup, CTV’s rise and AI’s rewriting of ad ops were too significant to ignore, and he built it to converge the two.
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