Ad Monsters

JANUARY 6, 2023

What if you had a crystal ball to look into the future of ad tech? Would you look into how the advertising ecosystem will function a couple of years after Chrome finally kicks third-party tracking cookies to the curb? Would you look over to the other side of economic uncertainty to see when ad spend picks up again?

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Ad Monsters

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For years, we’ve been advocating for publishers to create more transparent value exchanges—to demonstrate why a user should consent to data collection, especially as third-party cookies disappear. Users get more relevant content and ads, and advertisers get access to consumers who intend to purchase.

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Ad Monsters

JANUARY 6, 2025

With campaigns like the one they ran with Pandora, which saw a 76% increase in foot traffic, D/Cipher set a new industry standard for post-cookie success. As Lindsay Van Kirk, Senior VP of D/Cipher, put it, the tool shows that brands can drive real-world results without relying on cookies or identifiers.

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Ad Monsters

AUGUST 13, 2024

This proves that Dotdash Meredith can drive national brick-and-mortar sales for a brand without any cookie or identifier,” Lindsay Van Kirk, Senior Vice President and General Manager of D/Cipher told ADWEEK. Conversations weren’t merely about surviving the post-cookie apocalypse — they were about thriving.

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Advendio

JUNE 26, 2025

Operational Platforms That Bridge Sales and Ad Ops Travel brands need systems that can handle order management, campaign execution, billing, and reconciliation across direct and programmatic sales. Invest in interoperability: Choose platforms that unify ad ops, data, and billing in one system. With over 2.5

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Ad Monsters

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

These leaders did not come to AdMonsters Publisher Forum just to share war stories, they were looking for battle-tested tactics to turn the latest industry disruptions around in a complete about-face.

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Digiday

OCTOBER 18, 2022

.” While the use of piggybacking is often benign, it does introduce risk, and the ad ops teams at many publishers simply lack the resources to monitor piggybacked activity on their domains. A 2021 study from Ebiquity analyzed 200,000 cookies and found that a third (32.3%) of those cookies were fired without valid user consent.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 15, 2022

General ad spend left ad and rev op professionals wondering how they would make a profit each quarter, and privacy regulations and impending cookie depreciation forced publishers and advertisers to overhaul their businesses completely. . Ad tech professionals did not let curveballs hinder them from getting the job done.

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Ad Monsters

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ad spend was plummeting. For publishers, there was just no way to make heads or tails out of the year that was the last before the 3P cookies’ demise. Political ad spend is on the rise, but there are ad quality challenges for any publisher wanting to jump into that pool. Oh wait, it started inching back up again.

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Ad Monsters

JANUARY 18, 2023

Why is delaying your first-party data strategy a bad idea for publishers, especially when Safari and Firefox have long ago turned off cookie tracking? Brendan Farrell: There’s something bigger than third-parties cookies at play – user choice. It’s resulted in just 30% of the open web being addressable today.

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Ad Monsters

JANUARY 3, 2025

Ready to dive deep into the big questions that shaped ad ops in 2024? 8 Essential Explainers to Power Up Your Ad Tech Know-How 1. By : Dustin Cha (Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Ad-Shield) Why You Should Read This : So, you think you tamed the ad-blocking beast? Read more ) 4.

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AdPushup

JANUARY 22, 2023

Yes, the time is near – Third-party cookies are about to disappear very soon, and it is necessary to prepare early for the consequences. Let’s discuss the 7 Best Alternatives to Cookies (Third-Party).

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Ad Monsters

MARCH 25, 2024

As Aditude integrates CPMStar’s assets and expertise, particularly its impressive reach of over 800 million monthly active users, this acquisition not only marks a significant expansion for the ad tech player but also signals a strategic shift in their approach to publisher monetization and advertiser relationships.

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Monetize More

JULY 19, 2022

However, as it’s not a cut and dry solution there are some issues faced by publishers, especially when publishers decide to scale and increase their ad stack. As more ad networks/bidders get added to their auction, the page load and site latency increase which harms the reader experience.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Dinesen, explains how public data and IP-based insights help bridge the CPM gap and maximize value in a post-cookie world. Third-party cookie deprecation has created a pricing crisis for publishers. When readers can’t be identified, ad inventory sells at a steep discountsometimes 70-80% below addressable rates.

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Ad Monsters

DECEMBER 26, 2023

AdMonsters hosts conferences four times a year, and with each, our keynotes lead by example and teach us all how to be better ad ops professionals. The keynotes from this year covered issues from ad tech environmental woes to calling BS on identity and schooled the attendees on all things ad ops.

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Ad Monsters

AUGUST 23, 2022

Publisher Forum Montreal was a week filled with gems that revenue and ad ops pros can take back to their own work and put into practice. Killion acknowledged the stress the industry is facing because the third-party cookie is going away.

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AdPushup

MAY 28, 2023

Learn about Universal ID, a unique identifier that can assist publishers in the post-cookie world. Discover its benefits, types, and how it enables recognition and authentication of users across platforms, aiding in personalized content delivery.

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Ad Monsters

APRIL 3, 2025

Your input will shape a data-driven playbookwe’re creating in partnership with Intent IQbuilt to reflect what publishers really need to maximize revenue and reach in a post-cookie world. Take the Survey The post Whats Missing in Identity Solutions? You Tell Us. appeared first on AdMonsters.

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Ad Monsters

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Through cookies and pixels, the bid of demand sources can be adjusted according to the relevancy and the revenue. Maximizing Revenue Through Optimized Header Bidding Strategies Header bidding is crucial when it comes to generating maximum revenue with the help of better ad placements.

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Ad Monsters

JULY 15, 2024

We sat down with Teads’ executives at Cannes to discuss how the ad tech company is helping publishers navigate cookie deprecation, the current state of journalism, elections, and more. When it comes to buyer partners, nearly 80% of Teads campaigns do not use a cookie-based solution.

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Ad Monsters

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

What This Means for Ad Tech and the Sell Side LdJ: Ad tech and publishers are scrambling to redefine audience targeting for a post-cookie world. Thats the only way to make it sustainable. How does your work intersect with that shift?

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Ad Monsters

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These adjustments must also account for the transition from third-party cookies to first-party technologies. As DSA evolves, clarifications are needed to ensure a uniform compliance process across the industry. A Future Built on Transparency To ensure the DSA’s success, the entire digital advertising ecosystem must work in unison.

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Ad Monsters

JUNE 10, 2025

Publishers on the Mic Stephanie Mazzamaro, Head of Programmatic, Addressability, and Ops at The Arena Group, wasn’t just in the room—she was on the mic at the Trusted Server Workshop panel. This work isn’t just about safeguarding future monetization,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

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Ad Monsters

MAY 23, 2023

“When I started working at IAB, Google had just announced the deprecation of the third-party cookie. I went from account management, media planning, buying to ad ops to analytics, and now I have a position that encompasses all that. One she considers a challenging but fulfilling position.

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Ad Monsters

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With publishers facing challenges like third-party cookie deprecation and declining referral traffic, they need answers right now. Between the impending third-party cookie total annihilation and generative AI nibbling away at referral traffic, finding ways to keep your audience — and your revenue — intact is more important than ever.

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Brid.tv

APRIL 13, 2023

Greater Ad Demand — Publishers can add as many partners as they want and maximize demand for their auction without affecting the speed of their website. offers publishers access to Google’s premium ad demand even if they don’t meet the publisher criteria. Hybrid Bidding Google Open Bidding With Brid.TV As a Google MCM partner, Brid.TV

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AdPushup

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Following the deprecation of third-party cookies, a new wave of cookie-less identity (ID) solutions is sweeping the ad tech sector. Third-party cookies will soon be a thing of the past, as per Google’s plan to ban third-party [.]. If publishers want to stay competitive, they must prepare for the cookieless future.

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AdPushup

MAY 23, 2022

Marketers are facing a significant change in targeting and measurement, given that the majority of their campaigns are built on cookies. These cookie [.]. As such, Google’s decision has given advertisers and publishers more time to find new solutions.

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Digiday

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I had to work with our ad ops to create a dashboard for our CEO. Cookie-pocalypse when? “I I think [Google deprecating third-party cookies in its Chrome browser] is never going to happen.”. Too much risk [for Google’s advertising business], and too much equity in [Google’s ad exchange] AdX.”.

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AdPushup

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Universal ID work is to provide shared identifiers for tracing users throughout the chain of supply without syncing cookies. For as long as we can remember, data has been at the very heart of how the ad [.] Universal IDs were modified into what is known as Unified ID, and now Unified ID 2.0

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AdPushup

JANUARY 25, 2023

Universal ID work is to provide shared identifiers for tracing users throughout the chain of supply without syncing cookies. For as long as we can remember, data has been at the very heart of how the ad [.] Universal IDs were modified into what is known as Unified ID, and now Unified ID 2.0

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AdPushup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Google, in November 2021, launched a Publisher Provided Identifiers which publishers will share with Google’s programmatic demand for better targeting, customised ads, and better advertising experience. So unlike third-party cookies, PPIDs are the identifiers that publishers will assign the user based on first-party data.

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Ad Monsters

MAY 15, 2023

Chao focuses on accelerating business growth and transformation at Insider and developing a healthy advertising ecosystem through partnerships as the industry shifts away from third-party cookies. What advice did you wish you would have received at the start of your career? Sell to people who are ready to buy.

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Ad Ops Hero

APRIL 4, 2023

tracking ID, user ID, or cookie domain) that need to remain consistent across all events on a page. Example 2: Use Fields to Set to configure cookie field settings : Parameter NameExample Step 2: Create a trigger Next, set up a trigger to load the Google Analytics: GA4 Configuration when someone loads your website.

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Ad Monsters

JULY 8, 2025

Maybe AI isn’t taking over ad ops. From prompt engineering to creative alignment and data stewardship, ops teams are moving from the weeds to the frontlines of strategy. So no, the job of ad ops isn’t going away. What does this mean for ad ops? Maybe it’s elevating it. Here’s what it takes to keep up.

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Brid.tv

JULY 9, 2023

Extensive Platform Features — Although not necessary, having content management, hosting , and similar features along with an ad network can be quite practical for publishers, as it allows them to manage their entire monetization strategy from a single dashboard. Lastly, AdMedia offers a customizable, ad-optimized player.

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