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  • T-Commerce Vs. Shoppable TV

    Television commerce, or T-commerce, is similar to shoppable TV: both refer to buying something you see on television. But shoppable TV is far more nascent – and also has different implications on attribution.

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  • How The ‘Privacy By Default’ Internet Will Reshape Ad Industry Priorities

    Change is coming quickly in the digital advertising industry. With Google holding fast to its vow to phase out all third-party cookies by end of year, industry stakeholders are rethinking product road maps, business models and audience attribution tactics to prepare for advertising in a privacy-by-default internet. All the while, our ad-supported digital ecosystem continues […]

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  • Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report

    Nothing lasts forever. Ad revenue growth decelerated for the second year in a row after heady post-COVID ad revenue gains. US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, hampered by inflation, climbing interest rates and advertising industry layoffs, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Tuesday. Digital […]

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  • Turning Signal Loss Into A Gain

    Cookie deprecation and the reduced availability of mobile ad IDs is rocking the ad tech ecosystem. But signal loss is also an opportunity for a younger company to build new privacy-preserving targeting technology and grab market share, according to Remco Westermann MGI CEO.

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  • MMM Is Back, And Now It’s Accessible For Mid-Tier Marketers

    As third-party cookies disappear, old marketing tricks reemerge. It happened for contextual targeting and direct deals. Now media mix modeling (MMM) – analyzing sales data over time to determine which marketing tactics drive conversions – just might be due for a resurgence. But for MMM to truly have a comeback, it needs to become more […]

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  • 3 Paths Through The Supply Maze: Insights For Mobile Demand Platforms

    It’s getting tough for demand platforms as they face the rising cost of supply of programmatic inventory. Rising levels of invalid traffic and made-for-advertising (MFA) sites – together with the number of intermediaries entering the bidstream and taking their cut – are raising the cost of inventory. A June 2023 Association of National Advertisers (ANA) […]

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  • Vizio’s Vision For Programmatic And Home Screen Monetization

    Vizio has undergone a metamorphosis, transitioning from a hardware company to primarily a connected TV ad platform. Now, its biggest growth opportunities lie in programmatic ad sales and home screen monetization to sell more supply.

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  • Hidden MFA

    When Adalytics broke the news that Forbes operated the subdomain www3.forbes.com, it exposed a different kind of made-for-advertising (MFA) site. The URLs behind MFAs are often bland and unrecognizable, while Forbes’ hosted slideshow versions of its content crammed with ads, and most of the eyeballs came from paid traffic. Also, in some bid requests, Adalytics […]

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  • Will Clean Room Consolidation Actually Make Collaboration Easier?

    Clean rooms are one of the buzziest technologies in the advertising industry. Sparked by a need to activate first-party data in a privacy-compliant fashion, many brands are eager to adopt this solution.  Amid any industry boom comes the eventual consolidation, and it looks like that day has come for the clean room space. Snowflake kicked […]

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  • Check It Out: Arielle Garcia Is The New Director Of Intelligence At Check My Ads

    In moves-that-just-make-sense news, Arielle Garcia has joined digital advertising watchdog Check My Ads as director of intelligence. Garcia made waves last year when she publicly resigned her role as UM Worldwide’s chief privacy and responsibility officer. She was brutally honest about her struggles to reconcile her values with the imperatives of the large agency holding […]

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