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Six revenue opportunities you could be missing

The pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of relying too heavily on a single revenue stream. And as we adjust to an increasingly cookieless world and to the rise of new formats for audiences to engage with, there are a wealth of opportunities for digital publishers to diversify their revenues. But what could you be missing?

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Five approaches to developing more intelligent metrics

Many publishers are already moving beyond click through rates to looking at attention and engagement metrics, but what else can you be doing? Five of our expert Associates gave us their top tip for re-thinking your approach to metrics to make sure that you’re deriving the most value from your premium content.

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Ten paths to regaining control of the identity narrative

As the industry shifts to accommodate data privacy regulations and the demise of third-party cookies, advertisers are increasingly looking for reliable ways to connect and engage with their primary audiences, opening the door for publishers with detailed understanding of their audiences to take a more prominent role within the ecosystem. Discover nine top tips to help you leverage the strength of your quality publishing environment in the new world of privacy and identity.

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Nine steps for creating a positive advertising environment

What can publishers do to maximise their strategies and ensure that all parties get the experience they need? Here are nine tips from our panel of expert Associates to help you develop a seamless advertising experience.

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Three technological trends re-shaping digital publishing

The scale of growth in the digital world is almost beyond comprehension, and there is a constant steam of new technologies launched to market, each promising to be the holy grail you need to solve your challenges. So what has the stickiness to actually make a real impact in our industry? Before the discussions at AOP Publishing Tech Talk next week, industry experts share how new technology will reshape digital publishing over the next three years and what 2025 could hold for digital publishers. Read more here.

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Publishers share five top tips to integrate technology more intelligently in your organisation

Technology evolves rapidly – faster, perhaps, than digital publishers can incorporate new solutions into their tech stacks. It takes a certain amount of time to identify which new providers are offering a long-tail solution, evaluate the cost against the benefits, and start the process of integrating the tech into your organisation. By which time there may well be a shinier, newer solution promising to deliver above and beyond.

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Six ideas to make your user experience the best it can be

Six ideas to make your user experience the best it can be

A poor user experience cripples your content strategy. You have to be able to create a slick, hassle-free, – and this is critical - an enjoyable user experience. For the final day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk, we reached out to our Associates to understand how publishers can go above and beyond to create best experience possible for your audience.

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Innovations in building audience revenues to inspire your strategies

In times of crisis, people turned to trusted publishers and quality journalism for the latest news and for entertainment during long months of lockdown. And there’s been no sign of this trend slowing. For the third day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk, we’re exploring how you can diversify and build your reader revenues. And to kick off the day’s discussion, we reached out to our Associates to find out which innovations in reader revenue strategies they most admired…

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Nine predictions for the future of the programmatic marketplace

New awareness around privacy concerns, audience data, and the end user experience suggest that the programmatic marketplace of 2025 could look radically different. We reached out to our Associate members to get their predictions on how the programmatic marketplace will continue to evolve – and how publishers can prepare accordingly…

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Seven strategies for publishers looking to take control of their first-party data

Data is one of a publisher’s most valuable assets. And although the cookie has been granted a short lease of life, the focus remains very much on identifying a replacement for third-party cookies. For the first day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk, we reached out to our expert Associates to hear their top tips to help publishers take control of their first-party data in a post-cookie world…

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Private vs Open Marketplaces: the programmatic future according to publishers

According to a report by eMarketer, programmatic ad spending on PMPs surpassed that of the open exchange for the first time in 2020, with predictions suggesting that this flip in power dynamic is here to stay. To understand how publishers can best manage an optimum mix of trading models, we partnered with Unruly’s Reza Amiri-Garroussi for a collaborative roundtable discussion during the AOP Publishing Tech Talk. See the highlights of their discussion here!

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How can publishers win in today’s highly competitive attention economy?

In today’s highly competitive attention economy, how can you balance the interests of your audience and your advertisers to create the best user experience that delivers revenue and value for all parties? We joined Unruly’s Grant Bingham for a roundtable discussion with leading publishers for the last day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk to better understand what publishers are doing in this space.

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Thriving in a first-party digital ecosystem

Lessons from conversations with leading European publishers and broadcasters.

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Your blueprint for navigating the programmatic privacy shift

The Adtech industry has always been fast-moving – and with concerns around privacy shifting and new regulation emerging, the industry is evolving once again. Today, our focus must be on ensuring that consumer privacy is front of mind, while still creating a relevant advertising experience for the end user.

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Guiding principles for UX-led publishing

Designing sites to encourage these behaviours is one thing, but can that goal reconcile with the other imperative, the need to generate revenue from these readers? Do our revenue generating models interrupt the user, break their flow, and create the very ‘fuss and bother’ that UX demands we avoid?

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Over the last few years, brands have increasingly turned to people-based marketing strategies to power their campaigns, however many publishers have lagged behind, acting much slower to tap into their first party data sets. As we enter the cookieless future, this roundtable focused on how publishers can maximise their authenticated data, the importance of creating closer relationships with advertising partners, and why it’s vital that a value exchange is communicated directly to consumers. Here are the highlights from LiveRamp’s discussion on People Based Marketing: The Missed Opportunity for Publishers.

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Protecting and enhancing your first-party data as a publisher

Data is one of your most valuable assets as a publisher. Obviously, you need to have quality content and a great user experience and the myriad of other ingredients that are needed in successful digital publishing. But without a solid of approach to data, your ability to target and monetise your content is significantly hampered. And with third-party cookies on their way out the door, the wealth of first-party data at your fingertips is about to become significantly more valuable still as advertisers look to connect with their audience in a quality publishing environment.

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Six ideas to make your user experience the best it can be

Six ideas to make your user experience the best it can be

A poor user experience cripples your content strategy. You have to be able to create a slick, hassle-free, – and this is critical - an enjoyable user experience. For the final day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk, we reached out to our Associates to understand how publishers can go above and beyond to create best experience possible for your audience.

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Innovations in building audience revenues to inspire your strategies

In times of crisis, people turned to trusted publishers and quality journalism for the latest news and for entertainment during long months of lockdown. And there’s been no sign of this trend slowing. For the third day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk, we’re exploring how you can diversify and build your reader revenues. And to kick off the day’s discussion, we reached out to our Associates to find out which innovations in reader revenue strategies they most admired…

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Nine predictions for the future of the programmatic marketplace

New awareness around privacy concerns, audience data, and the end user experience suggest that the programmatic marketplace of 2025 could look radically different. We reached out to our Associate members to get their predictions on how the programmatic marketplace will continue to evolve – and how publishers can prepare accordingly…

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Seven strategies for publishers looking to take control of their first-party data

Data is one of a publisher’s most valuable assets. And although the cookie has been granted a short lease of life, the focus remains very much on identifying a replacement for third-party cookies. For the first day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk, we reached out to our expert Associates to hear their top tips to help publishers take control of their first-party data in a post-cookie world…

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Private vs Open Marketplaces: the programmatic future according to publishers

According to a report by eMarketer, programmatic ad spending on PMPs surpassed that of the open exchange for the first time in 2020, with predictions suggesting that this flip in power dynamic is here to stay. To understand how publishers can best manage an optimum mix of trading models, we partnered with Unruly’s Reza Amiri-Garroussi for a collaborative roundtable discussion during the AOP Publishing Tech Talk. See the highlights of their discussion here!

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title

How can publishers win in today’s highly competitive attention economy?

In today’s highly competitive attention economy, how can you balance the interests of your audience and your advertisers to create the best user experience that delivers revenue and value for all parties? We joined Unruly’s Grant Bingham for a roundtable discussion with leading publishers for the last day of the AOP Publishing Tech Talk to better understand what publishers are doing in this space.

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Thriving in a first-party digital ecosystem

Lessons from conversations with leading European publishers and broadcasters.

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title

Your blueprint for navigating the programmatic privacy shift

The Adtech industry has always been fast-moving – and with concerns around privacy shifting and new regulation emerging, the industry is evolving once again. Today, our focus must be on ensuring that consumer privacy is front of mind, while still creating a relevant advertising experience for the end user.

VIEW ARTICLE

title

Guiding principles for UX-led publishing

Designing sites to encourage these behaviours is one thing, but can that goal reconcile with the other imperative, the need to generate revenue from these readers? Do our revenue generating models interrupt the user, break their flow, and create the very ‘fuss and bother’ that UX demands we avoid?

VIEW ARTICLE

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Over the last few years, brands have increasingly turned to people-based marketing strategies to power their campaigns, however many publishers have lagged behind, acting much slower to tap into their first party data sets. As we enter the cookieless future, this roundtable focused on how publishers can maximise their authenticated data, the importance of creating closer relationships with advertising partners, and why it’s vital that a value exchange is communicated directly to consumers. Here are the highlights from LiveRamp’s discussion on People Based Marketing: The Missed Opportunity for Publishers.

VIEW ARTICLE

title

Protecting and enhancing your first-party data as a publisher

Data is one of your most valuable assets as a publisher. Obviously, you need to have quality content and a great user experience and the myriad of other ingredients that are needed in successful digital publishing. But without a solid of approach to data, your ability to target and monetise your content is significantly hampered. And with third-party cookies on their way out the door, the wealth of first-party data at your fingertips is about to become significantly more valuable still as advertisers look to connect with their audience in a quality publishing environment.

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