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WTF is ID spoofing?

Digiday

Earlier this month, ad tech giant Colossus SSP was accused by Adalytics of tricking advertisers into buying audiences they weren’t trying to target. The claim was that the sell-side platform was changing the user ID attached to an ad impression to make it more appealing to advertisers.

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A Pubmatic Server Anomaly, $1 Billion CPMs, and a Complicated Programmatic Ecosystem

Ad Monsters

A spokesperson for the SSP said that the anomaly occurred at one of its US data centers, causing publisher ad servers to receive abnormally high CPMs on a limited number of impressions. Experts expect the financial repercussions for individual publishers and ad tech firms will be insignificant.

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Amazon grants reprieve to ad tech partners in APS’ ongoing pricing saga

Digiday

Last month Amazon Publisher Services contacted ad tech companies that help publishers connect to its advertiser-demand tool informing them of a notable price change starting today, May 1. CPM charge to a fee of “2.5% CPM charge negligible. This involved shifting from a $0.01 of net revenue,” beginning May 1.

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Explain This to Me…Best of AdMonsters Decoder 2023

Ad Monsters

Every now and then, a new ad tech term, acronym, or technology pops up, and we’re all fishing around trying to figure out what the hell they mean. That’s why we created our explainer series, so we can keep you up to date on the newest ad tech trends and fads. This is the place for you.

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Price Floor Optimization for Publishers: How to Determine Price Floors for Your Inventory

Brid.tv

Luckily, with Brid.TV’s dynamic Prebid price floor optimizer, getting higher RPMs for your impressions is only a couple of clicks away. Relying on advanced ad tech, detailed data analysis, and complex algorithms is a surefire way to more than double your ad revenue.

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33Across Programmatic Trend Report: Investing in a Cookieless Future

Ad Monsters

Ad tech was once a world dominated by cookies, but its reign is soon coming to an end. . The CPM does not falter. Compared to third-party cookies, there is a 78% CPM gap for cookieless assets across all advertising verticals. . No drastic change in purchasing. The results show this can be an industry-wide benefit. .

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Programmatic Direct Advertising — All Publishers Need to Know

Brid.tv

Usually, a publisher and an advertiser establish contact through an ad network, and the publisher offers a piece or package of ad inventory for a certain CPM. Upon striking a deal, the advertiser proceeds to run their ad campaign programmatically using the publisher’s ad space.