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Political Advertisers Promoted Polarization. Now We Need To Help Fix It

The 2016 presidential election gave Americans a taste of the disinformation, misinformation and platform manipulation that’s coming for political media. These strategies aren’t new, but tactics are more effective than ever. This year, platforms and advertisers are far more sophisticated and have greater reach, with streaming and data-driven media replacing old media that could not […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

We All Have A Role To Play In Ending MFA

Like any addiction, buying cheap impressions on made-for-arbitrage (MFA) content is a vicious cycle that feeds itself. If our industry doesn’t stop the cycle at the source, it will continue indefinitely. The need for a solution is growing as junk publishers tarnish the reputation of the open internet. We’ve even reached the point where The […]

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AdExplainer

AdExplainer: The Rise Of Sell-Side Curation

Audience curation is a manifestation of what the online ad industry has long been calling for: closer collaboration between partners that isn’t built on unreliable third-party signals. To curate custom ad inventory, buyers have started working more closely with the sell side. Publishers have strong insights into user browsing behavior that advertisers can use for […]

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CTV Roundup

Netflix Put Its Own Spin On The Upfronts To Pique Advertiser Interest

In addition to taking execs through its plans to launch its own ad platform, Netflix hosted a separate event open to the press to showcase its content as part of its efforts to stand out to advertisers.

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The Big Story

Measuring Muck

Made-for-advertising (MFA) sites are roosting in reputable publishers’ subdomains. IDs are declared inconsistently. And the established third-party measurement companies are sitting on the sidelines.

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Marketers

YouTube Is Invading The Living Room

TV programmers have long looked down their noses at YouTube. User-generated content isn’t as premium as their prestige programming, or so their argument goes. YouTube, for its part, has long attempted to pitch itself to advertisers as not only just as good as TV, but, in many cases, more effective. At its Brandcast presentation on […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

How Mobile’s Focus On Performance Helps It Avoid The MFA Problem

Much has been said and written in recent months on the made-for-advertising (MFA) phenomenon, or the diversion of ad dollars from legitimate publishers to sites that exist purely to sell ads at a higher cost than the traffic they acquire. We know MFAs are a big problem on the open web. But what about mobile, […]

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Marketers

It’s Time For Buyers To Ditch Vanity Metrics And Start Collaborating With The Sell Side

Andrea Kwiatek will be presenting at Programmatic I/O, taking place May 20-22 in Las Vegas. Get your tickets here. If marketers weren’t so obsessed with vanity metrics like viewability and click-through rate (CTR), the open internet would have less of a media quality problem. Buyers could solve many of the issues they have with the […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

A Pragmatic Approach To Banishing MFA From The Supply Chain

The open web stands as a testament to freedom of communication, innovation and the collective pursuit of knowledge. However, lurking within our dynamic ecosystem is a growing threat: the proliferation of made-for-advertising (MFA) publishers. These entities are simply not publishers. They’re better described as master traffic arbitragers that exploit the system for profit without contributing […]

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Online Advertising

Adalytics Claims Colossus SSP Is Misdeclaring IDs In Its Bid Requests

Call it another colossal error in the long history of ad tech spoofing. Colossus SSP, a DEI-focused supply-side platform owned by Direct Digital Holdings (DDH), is the subject of Adalytics’ latest report released Friday. Through matching data logs and the Chrome developer toolkit, it documented the SSP repeatedly misrepresenting IDs in openRTB fields. What’s more, […]

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