Ad Tech
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Marketers
Uber’s Evolution Shows How Retail Media Will Get More Complicated – And Lucrative
Uber has rocketed from no formal ad business two years ago to being on pace to earn more than a billion dollars from advertisers this year. Following the departure of Mark Grether, who spearheaded the Uber ad business and is now doing the same for PayPal, Uber is creating a three-legged ad business. The new […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Golden Calf Of Addressability: Reevaluating The Foundations Of Digital Advertising
In the tale of the Israelites and the golden calf, fear and doubt drive a once-faithful people to embrace a shiny object – a symbol of misplaced trust and faith. This story finds a poignant parallel in today’s digital advertising industry, particularly as we stand at the crossroads shaped by the impending sunset of third-party […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Future Of Probabilistic Attribution: What Will Apple Do Next?
Since removing IDFA on iOS, Apple has made it clear that probabilistic or fingerprint attribution is not allowed. Any method that lets an advertiser link users between apps is forbidden. SKAdNetwork is available for download tracking but imposes privacy restrictions, making life harder for advertisers and ad networks. Consequently, numerous campaigns are still tracked by […]
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Marketers
Reaching LGBTQ+ Consumers Is Important All Year Round – And Here’s How To Do It
Rainbow-themed marketing schemes were muted during Pride Month this year, continuing an unfortunate trend of brands moving away from marketing to the LGBTQ+ community. Experts weigh in on how to effectively reach and resonate with this audience, despite a dearth of identifiable data.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Minor Tweaks Can Produce Major Environmental Wins For The Advertising Industry
Reducing global climate emissions to a sustainable level requires such an overwhelming amount of work that the problem can feel disconnected from our daily lives. At work, becoming more sustainable can seem particularly daunting. Companies rely on factories and trucks, computers and offices. Becoming less reliant on these things requires capital investment. And many people […]
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CTV Roundup
This Startup Is Serving Up A Cocktail Of CTV And DOOH
BarBoards, an Austin-based startup that launched in February, is the latest DOOH tech platform hoping to win TV ad dollars by running ads on screens in restaurants and bars.
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Marketers
Inside The Fall Of Oracle’s Advertising Business
By now, the industry is well aware that Oracle, once the most prominent advertising data seller in market, will shut down its advertising division. It is an ignominious end for Oracle Advertising, a part of the Oracle Data Cloud (ODC) that, at one point, consisted of top players in the category, including Datalogix for offline […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
As Oracle Terminates Its Ad Business, Here’s How Customers Can Adapt
The news that Oracle plans to shutter its advertising business by the end of September has sent shock waves through the ad industry. Over the past decade, the company has spent billions of dollars investing in various layers of the ad industry, acquiring companies like Datalogix, Moat, Grapeshot and BlueKai. Oracle’s solutions, including its data […]
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CTV Roundup
TV Advertisers Are Revisiting Their Relationships With DSPs
It’s never been more complicated to buy TV ads than it is today. As a result, TV advertisers are rethinking how they want to use programmatic platforms.
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The Big Story
The PET Project That Mozilla Acquired
This week, we bring on the CEO and CTO of privacy tech startup Anonym, which was acquired by Mozilla, to talk about PETs (privacy-enhancing technologies) and how Mozilla plans to use its tech to create a more private internet.