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06/01/2026

Today, we would like to take a moment to congratulate our Playwire team members celebrating their Playwire work anniversary in the month of June!

🎉Bradley Bailes
🎉Daniel O'connell
🎉Tommy Williams
🎉Thomas Creamer
🎉Seth Schachtman
🎉Austin Bail
🎉Fernando Villegas
🎉Tiara Baldoni
🎉Scott Schroeder
🎉Amie Chase Kelley
🎉Slava Yampolsky
🎉Gabrielle Warren

While each person may be on a different part of their Playwire journey, we couldn't be more grateful for their contributions to providing quality, performance, and transparency to each of our publishers.

Congratulations, and thank you for another outstanding year!

We’re excited to welcome Adela Rohanna, Director of Partner Success to Playwire!Adela is passionate about building stron...
06/01/2026

We’re excited to welcome Adela Rohanna, Director of Partner Success to Playwire!

Adela is passionate about building strong relationships, creating scalable processes, and helping teams operate more proactively and efficiently. We’re excited to have her on the team and can’t wait to see the leadership and insight she brings.

Join us in giving Adela a warm welcome!

Fill rate is underrated. We said it. 📊While publishers argue about CPMs and price floors, fill rate quietly drains reven...
05/29/2026

Fill rate is underrated. We said it. 📊

While publishers argue about CPMs and price floors, fill rate quietly drains revenue in the background — and most publishers aren't even diagnosing it correctly.

Our network data from 100B+ impressions shows that aggressive floor pricing costs publishers an average of 19% more revenue per session than calibrated floor logic.

Fill rate is hard to move. But understanding what actually drives it is the first step to fixing it.

We broke down the real levers — and why the "just lower your floors" instinct almost always makes things worse.

Read it 👉 https://bit.ly/4etdz86

Live sports events are some of the most valuable ad inventory on the open web. They're also some of the most under-optim...
05/28/2026

Live sports events are some of the most valuable ad inventory on the open web. They're also some of the most under-optimized.

Demand spikes are predictable. Audience attention is captive. CPMs should be off the charts. So why do so many sports publishers run the same ad config during the Super Bowl that they run on a random Tuesday in March?

Here's how to optimize ad revenue around event windows instead of leaving the upside on the table.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4cW6t9B

On June 17th, we're hosting a small group of publishers, partners, and industry friends at City Pickle in Times Square f...
05/28/2026

On June 17th, we're hosting a small group of publishers, partners, and industry friends at City Pickle in Times Square for an afternoon of pickleball and sparkling conversation.

Spots are limited and curated. It's complimentary. All skill levels welcome. We'll match you up accordingly.

If you're going to be in New York and want to compete, connect, and skip the conference circuit for a few hours, apply for your invite:
https://bit.ly/4fvbSaA

05/27/2026

Ad tech is serious business. Pickleball isn't. That's the point.

On June 4th, we're hosting the Playwire Pickleball Open at City Pickle in Central Park. A morning of friendly competition, real conversations, and maybe a little good-natured trash talk.

Spots are limited and by invitation only. If you're in New York and want in, apply for your invite at the link in the comments.

Wednesday, June 4th · 9:00 AM, Noon EST
City Pickle at Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York, NY
All skill levels welcome. Arrive by 8:45 to warm up.

💡 We analyzed what actually predicts publisher ad revenue — and the answer might surprise you.It's not CPM. It's not vie...
05/27/2026

💡 We analyzed what actually predicts publisher ad revenue — and the answer might surprise you.

It's not CPM. It's not viewability. It's not even fill rate.

It's ad density. Specifically, how many impressions you're generating per pageview.

Publishers with optimized ad density show a 21x revenue-per-session advantage over publishers at the low end. That's not a typo.

The good news? This is one of the most fixable problems in publisher monetization. You don't need new demand partners or a platform overhaul. You need the right layout strategy.

We broke down exactly why ad density is the #1 revenue lever and what publishers can do about it.

Read it here 👉 https://bit.ly/42kNuAQ

https://bit.ly/42kNuAQ

Health publishers, your monetization stack has a problem AdSense can't solve.Brand-safety blocks on "sensitive" medical ...
05/26/2026

Health publishers, your monetization stack has a problem AdSense can't solve.

Brand-safety blocks on "sensitive" medical terms. Generic CPMs that ignore your audience value. Demand partners that don't understand IAB health categories.

We broke down the platforms actually built for health and wellness inventory. What they do well, where they fall short, and how to evaluate them without taking a sales rep's word for it.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3QJwu4Q

Two display placements. No video. No skins. No interstitials.That was Serebii's monetization setup, and they weren't bud...
05/25/2026

Two display placements. No video. No skins. No interstitials.

That was Serebii's monetization setup, and they weren't budging on it.

A lot of ad networks would've pushed back. We didn't. We optimized within those constraints instead of around them.

The result? A 3x RPS improvement and ~283% more monthly revenue year-over-year.
That's not from stacking ad units. That's from demand quality, a clean technical setup, and actually knowing what you're doing.

User experience and revenue don't have to be a tradeoff.
Read the full case study → https://bit.ly/4u3EBXX

Here's a pattern that's harder to diagnose than a broken stack:Everything is fine. Nothing is obviously wrong. Revenue i...
05/21/2026

Here's a pattern that's harder to diagnose than a broken stack:

Everything is fine. Nothing is obviously wrong. Revenue is stable. Advertiser relationships are good. User experience is protected.

And yet revenue growth has stalled.

This is the Premium Publisher's paradox. A PARMM profile that scores Level 3 across the board is genuinely impressive — and genuinely limiting. Because Level 3 everywhere means no dimension is operating at the level where revenue compounds.

Yield management at Level 3 means you're leaving CPM on the table. Demand at Level 3 means competition for your inventory isn't as fierce as it could be. Direct sales at Level 3 means you're not accessing the premium CPMs your audience actually commands.

The instinct is to protect what's working. The result is a plateau that looks like stability but functions like a ceiling.

Pushing two or three dimensions to Level 4 — strategically, in the right sequence — is where the growth comes from.

Full archetype breakdown here: https://bit.ly/46RphVq

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