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A discussion on early-November CPMs centered on unexpectedly soft pricing, with multiple publishers stating that levels remained below typical seasonal norms and that the traditional “November pop” has weakened. Several participants pointed to softer open-market demand.
Camp.Fire: How publishers can win in the clickless era BY HAZEL BROADLEY, BEELER.TECH This conversation is for our exclusive publishers and partners only community. Please ask in the community for the password to watch this video. The shift is already here. When AI summaries and answer engines sit between users and source sites, clicks fall, … Read more
Wait, what? Another protocol to learn? AdCP, UCP and initial publisher reactions BY HAZEL BROADLEY, BEELER.TECH Two new acronyms crashed our calendars this month. At Base.Camp Lisbon, Scope3’s Alex Oakden introduced the Ad Context Protocol (AdCP). Two days later, at the IAB Tech Lab International Summit, Shailley Singh unveiled the User Context Protocol (UCP). Here, … Read more
Rough Q4 for programmatic. We saw Q3 end pretty well, but are now seeing some unexpected softness across the board. Normally, we don’t see a quarter reset this sharp between Q3 and Q4.
adops.com expanding Google GAM360 reselling and support to Latin America BY ROB BEELER + CRAIG LESHEN, CEO OF ADOPS.COM Recently, adops.com announced it was extending its GAM360 reselling and support services via the Google Certified Publishing Partner (GCPP) Program to Spanish-speaking Latin America (SPLA). On its face, it’s a logical expansion of their long-standing work … Read more
Publishers today face a paradox: their ad stacks have never been more sophisticated, yet many are losing more revenue than ever to hidden fees, redundant layers, and opaque optimization logic. What looks like technical evolution often masks a quiet transfer of control – and margin – away from publishers and toward the vendors running the infrastructure.
Some discussion around the potential pitfalls of testing multiple wrapper companies. The key is to maintain direct relationships with your partners. For those who work with multiple sites, keeping the wrappers separate is considered best practice.
Publisher considerations for partner consolidations BY EMRY DOWNINGHALL, PROGRAMMATIC REVENUE & STRATEGY AT UNWIND MEDIA This article was originally published in March of 2023. The cold air cloaking Newport Beach during last week’s Base.Camp felt fitting given the chilly state of the programmatic market. YoY CPM growth is declining, addressable audiences continue to shrink, once … Read more
A mixed bag of responses this week about OpenAds, and some of it stemming from understanding what OpenAds will do for publishers and where it sits. We’ll work on pulling resources together to help educate everyone, but until then, just reporting some of the reactions, questions, etc. that are coming up…
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