The 15 Best Resources Publishers And Digital Ad Pros Should Follow
How do you implement header bidding or RTB on your website? Which monetization solution offers the highest CPMs? What’s the best way to A/B test content, ad units, or ad networks?
How do you implement header bidding or RTB on your website? Which monetization solution offers the highest CPMs? What’s the best way to A/B test content, ad units, or ad networks?
In the last two months, there’s been a lot of buzz about what the biggest issue publishers will face in 2017 will be. The answer? The Facebook threat.
419 million people.
That’s the number of people using ad blocking companies around the world. According to PageFair’s 2016 Mobile Ad Blocking Report, 159 million of these ad blockers are in China, 122 in India, and 14 million are in Europe and North America.
What does it take to grow your ad revenues and succeed as a large online publisher? Well, there are the obvious things, like: great content that brings readers back, immense content distribution, and digital ad formats that engage users. But, that’s just half of the story. The other half is ad revenue optimization. It’s what brings your revenues from good to great.
Publishers are no longer free-standing islands in the content monetization ocean. They are interconnected hubs in a rapidly evolving content industry. Positioned where consumers, content and advertisers intersect, publishers are poised to have a profound impact on the industry’s future as essential facilitators.
Before I dive into who the top sports publishers of 2016 are, let’s understand the readership and monetization opportunities involved in sports’ publishing. Sports’ fans, more than the average consumer, tend to be highly engaged with brands:
Our online experience has, overwhelmingly, become a visual experience dominated by the power of images and video. An image, in particular, is a powerful communication medium. Images are highly emotional and engaging. They affect us profoundly. Just consider this recent image that has become an icon of protest action in the United States: