Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
Google Is Keeping Cookies, So Advertisers Will Keep Buying Junk Data In Bulk
The rise of digital media offered the promise of paying for advertising based on definable, measurable impressions. Finally, decades of basing TV and radio advertising on limited survey models were coming to an end. While surveys left advertisers with no insight into who was actually seeing their ads, the new digital advertising environment allowed advertisers […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
After Xandr: Why The Open Internet’s Future Hinges On Integration, Not Fragmentation
Microsoft’s decision to shutter its Xandr DSP, formerly AppNexus, a pioneer in programmatic advertising, is reverberating throughout the ad tech industry. As Microsoft itself puts it: “Our commitment to more private and personalized advertising experiences for a conversational and agentic world is not achievable with the industry’s current DSP model and, therefore, it no longer […]
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Marketers
Google’s Move Toward Attention Metrics Could Be A Viewability Killer, Says Jaguar Land Rover
Could Google’s embrace of attention metrics help the industry evolve past easily manipulated viewability measurement? Danny Zhu, director of digital and performance marketing at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America, thinks so. Google DV360 adding Adelaide’s Attention Unit (AU) metric as an optimization signal is “going to be a game changer for us,” Zhu told […]
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CTV Roundup
Hey, TV Upfronts: You Don’t Have To Apologize For Using Ad Tech Jargon
Amid the glitz of TV upfront presentations, advertising executives take the stage to talk about things like new audience targeting capabilities or to ballyhoo new ad measurement partnerships. How, though, are we supposed to focus on brand lift statistics when we can all hear Lady Gaga belting a vocal warmup offstage?
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The Big Story
The AI Imperative Behind GroupM’s “Restructuring”
GroupM is restructuring, as AI looms over the business model of agency holding companies, and one-click campaign planning comes for agency jobs.
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Online Advertising
The Legality Of RTB In Europe Has Been Settled, And Nobody’s A Winner
At long last the most prominent GDPR case targeting the legal standing of the IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) has been settled. A Belgian appeals court has ruled on how ad tech vendors, publishers and advertisers can continue to use programmatic advertising in Europe. “Well, here we are,” IAB Europe CEO Towney Feehan […]
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Online Advertising
Why It Might Be Time To Rebrand The Open Web
The open web is dead; long live the open web. It’s healthy; it’s full of opportunity; it’s doomed; it’s a mess. Also, what even is the open web, and do consumers care about the definition? This is the sort of inside baseball stuff that ad tech CEOs and founders somehow still continue to debate when […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
What Political Campaigns Can Teach Brands After Google’s Latest Cookie Reversal
The last thing most marketers want to think about right now is politics. However, in today’s media environment, where attention is fragmented and trust is fragile, they can learn a great deal from how political advertisers operate. Political campaigns have mastered persuasion, precision and performance under pressure. They have to move people who are skeptical, […]
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Online Advertising
Microsoft Is Shutting Down Invest, The One-Time AppNexus DSP Business
Microsoft Invest – formerly Xandr DSP and formerly AppNexus before that – will soon just be formerly, full stop. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it will shut down Microsoft Invest by March next year. The DSP will be replaced by a chatbot-style ad-buying product powered by Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI solution. However, the change only applies […]
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Online Advertising
Sincera Offers A Free API For Some Of Its Prized Metrics
The ad industry speculated a great deal about how The Trade Desk might put Sincera to use after its acquisition of the ad metadata and analytics startup in January. We now have one indication of how Sincera will be put to use. TTD publicly announced OpenSincera on Tuesday. The free API integration posts ad impression […]
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