Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
Balancing Accuracy, Richness And Scale For Effective Audience Targeting
Digital advertisers should be able to agree that there are about 345 million people in the US, making up about 133 million households. But, historically, media buying has been all about scale, even if it meant outrageously false population counts on audience segments. More recently, advertisers have started to accept that there is a correlation […]
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Online Advertising
IAB Tech Lab Made Moves To Acquire Prebid In 2021 – And Prebid Said No
Seven years ago, as publishers were using header bidding to level the online auction with Google, Prebid was a bit of open-source header-bidding code developed by AppNexus. Fast-forward to today, and that code is now Prebid.org, a standalone industry standards body producing widely adopted open-source tech. The story of how Prebid.org came to be – […]
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CTV Roundup
How Expedia’s TV And Digital Teams Became Travel Buddies
The “set-jetting” phenomenon means TV advertising and, more specifically, CTV advertising is a natural fit for travel brand Expedia promote its service.
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The Big Story
The Curation Debate
We discuss the rise of curation in programmatic buying and the current backlash. Is curation an ad network with new window dressing? And will it save or undermine the open web?
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Data-Driven Thinking
Advertisers, Brace Yourselves: The Era Of Paid, Ad-Free Social Media Is Here
Ad-free subscriptions are coming to social media. Snapchat was actually one of the first social platforms to offer a monthly subscription, starting in 2022. Its $3.99 Snapchat+ plan provides subscribers with exclusive, experimental and prerelease features (but still features ads). Snapchat+ had 11 million subscribers in August 2024, an increase of 6 million since September […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
CAPI Isn’t A Band-Aid For Cookie Deprecation. It’s An Essential Solution
With Google’s recent U-turn around third-party cookie deprecation, it’s easy to think there’s no rush to adopt alternative data strategies like conversion API (CAPI). But that’s a dangerous assumption. CAPI is a tool developed by platforms such as Meta, LinkedIn and Snap to help businesses track customer interactions and conversions directly from their server, bypassing […]
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The Big Story
Unboxing Amazon Ads’ Ad Tech
From the Amazon Ads Unboxed conference, AdExchanger reports on the ad tech products it’s building. Plus, why brand safety and news publishers remain at odds with each other, and what each side is doing about it.
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CTV Roundup
What Would Local TV Broadcasters Do If It Weren’t For Political Advertising Revenue?
You probably didn’t need me to tell you that things aren’t looking super great for the local TV broadcast industry these days, financially speaking. But just in case you need quantitative proof, consider the fact that many of the largest broadcasting companies are considered a credit risk.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Industry Pullback From Cookie-Based Tech Proves Cookies Are Already Dead
The cookie is already gone. The budgets have shifted. All the howlers screaming about Chrome’s road map for deprecation are akin to the last soldiers standing on the battlefield clinging to the flag of a fallen nation. In short, it’s over. But we can’t measure the downfall of cookies by looking at the bidstream. There […]
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Marketers
How GoGo squeeZ Is Widening Its Target Audience Beyond Toddlers
Picture this: There’s a mom sitting on a park bench. It’s a sunny day, and she’s watching her kids play ball on the grass. She takes a quick look around to confirm no one’s watching her. Then, when she’s sure she’s not being observed, she takes out of her bag … a GoGo squeeZ pouch […]
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