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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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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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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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Why SSPs And DSPs Are Breaking The Barrier Between Supply And Demand

Most of the companies in the digital marketing ecosystem have traditionally serviced either the supply or the demand side. But in the last few years, this trend has started to change. Google and Meta have always served both sides of the advertising ecosystem, and other examples are emerging as well. In 2022, leading demand-side […]

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Seizing The Moment: Why Data-Driven Advertisers Must Embrace Transformation Now

The ad industry’s transition from third-party to first-party data infrastructure is the most significant change in digital history. Companies across the ecosystem need to invest in transformation to evolve and retool their business, infrastructure and capabilities. There are two paths to transformation. Both rely on the corporate accounting definition of the word: making a one-time, […]

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Third-Party Cookies Will See Their End, No Matter The Timeline

On Tuesday, Google Privacy Sandbox extended its arbitrary timeline for deprecating the third-party cookie yet again, saving the industry from the looming Q4 deadline. But was it really that juicy of an announcement? There’s been collective scrutiny from the industry and plenty of concerns voiced pertaining to the solutions proposed in the Privacy Sandbox. The […]

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The Global Privacy Control Is Limiting. Here’s How The Industry Can Do Better

Today, many US state privacy laws either allow or require businesses to enable consumers to opt out of targeted advertising through a technology-enabled feature commonly referred to as a Global Privacy Control (GPC). In its FAQs, the GPC website states: “GPC … permits users to easily and clearly exercise their privacy rights.” This statement is […]

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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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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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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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