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Audience curation is a manifestation of what the online ad industry has long been calling for: closer collaboration between partners that isn’t built on unreliable third-party signals. To curate custom ad inventory, buyers have started working more closely with the sell side. Publishers have strong insights into user browsing behavior that advertisers can use for […]

Much has been said and written in recent months on the made-for-advertising (MFA) phenomenon, or the diversion of ad dollars from legitimate publishers to sites that exist purely to sell ads at a higher cost than the traffic they acquire.  We know MFAs are a big problem on the open web. But what about mobile, […]

Andrea Kwiatek will be presenting at Programmatic I/O, taking place May 20-22 in Las Vegas. Get your tickets here.  If marketers weren’t so obsessed with vanity metrics like viewability and click-through rate (CTR), the open internet would have less of a media quality problem. Buyers could solve many of the issues they have with the […]

The open web stands as a testament to freedom of communication, innovation and the collective pursuit of knowledge. However, lurking within our dynamic ecosystem is a growing threat: the proliferation of made-for-advertising (MFA) publishers.  These entities are simply not publishers. They’re better described as master traffic arbitragers that exploit the system for profit without contributing […]

The Trade Desk delivered another smash earnings report. What’s new? The company’s total revenue in Q1 was $491 million, a 28% increase from last year, and net income (i.e., profit) jumped from $9 million in Q1 2023 to $32 million this quarter. Consistent revenue growth and profit has become the norm for TTD, which reported […]

Had enough of marketing changes and disruption this year? Too bad. Google Search, the web’s largest traffic and revenue generator for two decades, is in the midst of sweeping overhauls that have already altered how users are funneled around the internet. Last month, Google completed the rollout of its first “core update” of 2024, which […]

The MFA debacle plagued the minds of publishers and advertisers alike last year, and many made pledges to do their best to eradicate their existence on their sites. Yet, MFA sites are still going steady. According to Eli Heath, Head of Identity at Lotame, this underscores advertisers’ need to explore alternative strategies to ensure brand safety and ad quality through data curation.

In 2023, AdMonsters spoke with industry experts about the feasibility of green digital advertising campaigns, and the steps required of all players for our industry to achieve net zero. As Earth Day approaches, we revisited the topic to assess progress, identify new threats to carbon reduction goals, and explore critical issues facing our industry players.

Scope3 and Sharethrough have responded to the challenge by developing GMP+, a groundbreaking solution integrating placement-level data into Sharethrough’s platform. This innovative approach allows buyers to purchase green media products at the placement level. In addition to features like MFA blocking and high carbon website blocking, GMP+ also enables blocking previously unblockable problematic placements, enhancing control and precision for media buyers. Now available via Sharethrough, GMP+ will help marketers gain more quality with less carbon.

It’s getting tough for demand platforms as they face the rising cost of supply of programmatic inventory. Rising levels of invalid traffic and made-for-advertising (MFA) sites – together with the number of intermediaries entering the bidstream and taking their cut – are raising the cost of inventory. A June 2023 Association of National Advertisers (ANA) […]