audience monetization

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem … 

SSP, meet PET. TrustX has been spun out of Digital Content Next and is now housed within a newly formed company called Symitri, which is developing privacy-enhancing technologies for programmatic advertising.

Reaching a scaled audience is important for publishers, but scale at all costs is just a race to the bottom in disguise. When publishers have a deep and direct relationship with their readers, advertisers see stronger performance, says Semafor CRO Rachel Oppenheim.

One of the most overlooked caveats around the shift to first-party assets is that no successful monetization strategy can be built in isolation. A future-facing media monetization strategy must work in two concentrical contexts: within the media owner’s environment itself and within the advertising environment, writes Alessandro De Zanche, audience and data strategy consultant.

There are many business questions that publishers need to ask as they try to optimize viewing in an increasingly complex distribution ecosystem. Answering these questions requires transforming the metrics that owned apps and distribution partners provide into equivalized minutes and demographics, writes Joan FitzGerald, founder of Data ImpacX.

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Joshua Koran, head of innovation labs at Zeta Global. How would you feel if a proverbial Big Brother controlled all data access and processing on the web? There are certain […]

Trusted Media Brands is continuing its turnaround and building a revenue team to take advantage of its digital audience growth. Over the past year, the company, formerly known as the Reader’s Digest Association, grew readership on RD.com 76% to 8.3 million unique visitors. Taste of Home’s audience grew 39% to 12.7 million unique visitors. Overall […]