January 22, 2025
The right video partner can transform your strategy. Discover the 5 must-ask questions that help publishers unlock higher engagement, seamless scalability, and boosted revenue. For most of the internet's history, digital publishers viewed video as a nice add-on—great to have, but not a requirement. The hope, back then, was that a selection of on-site video content might compel users to come back more often and to spend more time with what they perceived as the main...
January 14, 2025
Discover how EX.CO's expanded ad server is revolutionizing programmatic advertising for CTV and digital out-of-home (DOOH). Powered by machine-learning technology, the technology boosts revenue across all screens by enhancing auction performance. EX.CO is excited to announce that we are now expanding our ad server offering to meet the unique needs of both CTV and digital out-of-home (DOOH). Powered by advanced machine-learning technology, the EX.CO Ad server is designed to help media owners upgrade their programmatic ad performance in these...
December 12, 2024
EX.CO partners with Scope3 to offer Green Media Products, helping advertisers reduce carbon emissions and improve ROI with low-carbon, sustainable inventory and efficient ad technology. The programmatic advertising industry is making significant strides toward sustainability, with more companies finding ways to reduce carbon emissions across both demand and supply. All those bid requests, auctions, data, and server operations require a lot of computing power—and that comes with a...
December 04, 2024
EX․CO teamed up with Brian Morrisey's The Rebooting for a deep-dive investigative research report into the state of publisher video. Read the insights here. Remember the mid-2010s? Skinny jeans were still firmly in fashion; Tumblr was the coolest place to be; and publishers were, en masse, pivoting to video. Facebook, in those days, had just recently emerged as a media juggernaut—a kingmaker in the media space, with the ability to direct millions of...
November 19, 2024
Unlocking Subscriber Growth: How Video Content Can Drive Conversions and Loyalty for Media Companies As publishers face increasing competition for audience attention, video content has emerged as a game-changing tool for driving subscriber growth–and subscriptions are becoming a more significant priority in 2025. In fact, according to a new Digiday+ Research survey, 83% of professionals working at...
November 13, 2024
Learn how publishers, from news sites to travel and lifestyle brands, can make the most of the divided, post-election climate with balanced video content. The post-election period brings heightened political engagement, reminiscent of the so-called “Trump Bump,” when politically charged content saw a surge in interest and traffic. However, with this engagement comes a highly polarized climate that publishers need to navigate carefully. While the...
October 31, 2024
Discover the benefits for publishers of prioritizing on-site video over social media distribution. Over the past 15 years, the goal for publishers has largely been to go viral on social media. The website experience was often deprioritized: instead of a loyal audience typing in your URL multiple times a day, potentially millions of readers would encounter individual stories through social media...
October 17, 2024
Understand why context and personalization matter in digital publishing and the benefits of contextual video recommendations for publishers. In just five minutes of tapping and scrolling, the average smartphone user will come face-to-face with dozens of entities vying for their attention: brands, content creators, influencers, personal friends, and, of course, publishers. Everyone, in 2024, is fighting for a slice of the attentional...
October 09, 2024
Learn how malvertising harms your ads and discover how EX.CO helps protect your demand from this growing cyber threat. What is malvertising? Malvertising, or malicious advertising, is a new type of cyberattack that injects harmful code into digital ads. This problem is becoming more and more common, with Confiant reporting that about 1 in 100 ads contains harmful code. As a result, it poses an increasing challenge...