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Adblocking on desktop is on the rise again. It has rebounded close to the earlier, all-time-high 2018 levels, according to the 2022 PageFair Adblock Report from adblock revenue recovery company Blockthrough. Desktop adblocking growth slowed in 2016-2018, and then declined over 2018-2020. It started growing again over the last two years reaching 290M active users worldwide in 2021. These are conservative estimates, according to the report, as they do not take into account wide-spectrum content blockers, VPN/DNS-based adblockers, and network-level adblockers. Desktop adblocking has crept back up to its 2018 high. Since advertising revenue from mobile web is still a…

Highlights from Sovrn’s new Advertising Performance Benchmark Report, based on data from 6,000 publishers generating 25B daily page views across 60,000+ global sites. “CPM seems to have returned to the usual patterns of seasonality in the latter half of H1 2022 while still flatter overall than what we would expect to see,” according to Sovrn’s latest Advertising Performance Benchmark Report. “For the second half of 2022, there remains a significant amount of uncertainty impacting global ad spend, driven by macroeconomic concerns and a softening of consumer spending, plus lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine.”…

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Publishers: Always be optimizing…
The use of algorithms to optimize ad performance has provided tremendous value for digital advertisers over the last decade. Publishers need to demand similar technology to optimize their performance, too. The major benefit of optimization algorithms in content recommendation ads is their ability to analyze thousands of ad-to-content combinations. This enables publishers to run ads that will generate the greatest revenue while providing advertisers the highest conversion rates and users the best …
New Google Play guidance will force publisher apps to rethink app store optimization (ASO)
Over 385,000 Android apps available on Google Play are at risk of having their titles condensed, according to an analysis by the Zurich-based app intelligence company 42matters. This is the result of new guidance, first announced by Google in April of last year, that includes a policy change for app metadata intended to encourage the …
Publishers need to look beyond the SSP and think end-to-end
The digital media marketplace of the future will be built on strong, transparent relationships throughout the ecosystem. Prompted by new data privacy laws, plus new restrictions on the use of third-party cookies and other personal ID signals, publishers are increasingly shifting from third-party data to forms of first-party data to help nurture relationships with advertisers …

82% of users prefer lighter ad experience: How publishers can recover revenues lost through adblocking

82% of users prefer lighter ad experience: How publishers can recover revenues lost through adblocking

Publisher insights for optimizing ad strategies: Factors that “consistently have an outsized impact on CPM rates”

Publisher insights for optimizing ad strategies: Factors that “consistently have an outsized impact on CPM rates”

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