Ad Tech
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Marketers
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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Marketers
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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Data-Driven Thinking
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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CTV Roundup
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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The Big Story
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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Data-Driven Thinking
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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Marketers
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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Data-Driven Thinking
The Ad Industry Urgently Needs Consistent Privacy Standards
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at the 2024 IAB Public Policy and Legal Summit in Washington, DC, about the importance of standardization in privacy compliance, discuss the IAB Diligence Platform and hear directly from regulators about what they are looking for. Standardization is an urgent issue for three reasons. Advertising is now […]
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AdExplainer
The Rise Of Ecommerce Ad Metrics
Ecommerce isn’t just a new category for online advertising. It’s changing how online advertising works. The first generation of online ad metrics was all about measuring the impact of the ad itself: click-through rate, app installs, video views and the like tied to a standard CPM. Those metrics were an attempt to prove that online […]
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The Big Story
Ad Tech’s Performance Review
TV ad buying platform Cadent acquires AdTheorent, setting its sights on omnichannel. Also in this episode: The less-than-kosher attribution game that retail media networks are playing with brands.