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Future believes its new monetization offering can succeed where other publishers have struggled with selling ad tech and consulting to third-parties.

Future PLC has agreed to buy the consumer division of Purch for $132 million. The July acquisition brings together Purch properties Tom’s Guide, Tom’s Hardware and Top Ten Reviews with Future PLC’s tech vertical titles, including PC Gamer and TechRadar. Future PLC’s 100-plus brands also serve non-tech niches like music and photography. The two companies […]

Purch, publisher of LiveScience and TopTenReviews, added three layers of defense to its anti-fraud system in October. In addition to pre-screening for bots twice, Purch now detects bots, malware and ad quality in real time. “Better-quality traffic means higher ad performance and higher CPMs,” said Purch CTO John Potter. “This is a trend. Demand sources […]

Purch, which first implemented header bidding three years ago, has moved on. The portfolio of product review and tech sites turned off most of its header bidders last month and moved to server-to-server integrations with the same partners. Industrywide, server-to-server is considered a logical next step after header bidding. Amazon is moving server-to-server, and Google’s […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Greg Mason, CEO at Purch. The New York Times made its own headlines when it recently acquired Wirecutter, the five-year-old online product review site, for an estimated $30 million. For one of the world’s […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Doug Llewellyn, chief operating officer at Purch.  Digital publishers are worried about how publishing platforms meant to speed up mobile load times, such as Google’s AMP, Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple’s News, will impact […]

“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Phil Barrett, senior vice president at Purch. Mobile advertising is growing faster than all other forms of digital advertising, predicted to reach nearly $42 billion in the U.S. by 2018. There’s been a general “premium” […]

Purch CEO Greg Mason doesn’t see his company’s future in advertising. Instead, he says Purch’s greatest business opportunity revolves around using content to drive commerce. By getting close enough to the point of sale to earn an affiliate fee or lead gen, he sees a way out in a market “where the traditional role of […]

“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Phil Barrett, senior vice president at Purch. Ad blocking turned digital marketing on its head in 2015. Publishers relying heavily on ad revenues fear for the very sustainability of their businesses – and have been […]

Many industry analysts expect B2B media marketing budgets to finally reach pre-recession levels by the end of 2015, following a drop-off in 2009 that removed almost one out of every $5 spent on B2B outlets. And those revenue streams are migrating to programmatic technology and new native strategies to develop brand awareness. One of the […]

Commerce-focused publisher Purch has raised a big $135 million round, money it aims to spend on potential media acquisitions outside its established B2C and B2B tech verticals. Some of the money will also support an ad tech expansion, including heightened analytics capabilities. “Investors don’t like money in the bank,” said CEO Greg Mason. “We want to […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Greg Mason, CEO at Purch. For publishers, the benefits of programmatic advertising have been well stated. It enables us to optimize sales, streamline operations and provide useful data to improve the overall buying process. […]

Because advertisers are willing to spend the most at the last click before purchase, it’s where publishers can reap the highest rewards. That’s the focus of publication family Purch – which rebranded from TechMediaNetwork in April and whose owned and operated sites include TopTenREVIEWS, Tom’s Hardware, Tom’s IT Pro, Laptop and Connectedly. “We believe the […]