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The ANA Says Advertisers Are Spending Way Less On MFA – But Programmatic Ain’t Fully Transparent Yet

One year ago, the Association of National Advertisers released the first part of its Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. But it really should have been named The Lack of Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. Because that report, and the follow-up study published in December, uncovered an appalling amount of programmatic waste, including $22 […]

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Why It Matters That Google Merchant Center Is Ditching The Word “Feed”

Some ecommerce pros were surprised recently to log in to their Google Merchant Center and see the “Feeds” tabs gone. The disappearance of the word “Feeds” is a sign Google is becoming less reliant on information provided by the brand or merchant to inform its marketing services.

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Advertisers Are Misinformed About The Ad Industry’s Misinformation Problem

Advertisers that rely on ad tech vendors to protect them from buying ads on shoddy, offensive or deceptive news content are … in for some bad news. Researchers at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University recently set out to determine how often ads are served to sites that publish misleading stories, propaganda or conspiracy theories […]

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The New York Times And Instacart Integrate For Shoppable Recipes

The New York Times and Instacart walk into a kitchen. That’s not the start of a bad joke. It’s an actual partnership. On Tuesday, the two companies announced a deal to make New York Times Cooking recipes shoppable via Instacart, of course, and to embed its cooking videos within the Instacart app. The deal is […]

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Ally Financial On Why Marketing And IT Need To Be BFFs

If you’re a brand that wants to in-house its programmatic media buying, the best thing you can do is to make friends with the IT guys. Because without buy-in and support from the internal tech team – whose job it’ll be to handle most of the technical development of any mar tech or data warehouse deployment […]

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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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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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Google Search’s Core Updates Are Crushing Sites And Reshaping The Web

Had enough of marketing changes and disruption this year? Too bad. Google Search, the web’s largest traffic and revenue generator for two decades, is in the midst of sweeping overhauls that have already altered how users are funneled around the internet. Last month, Google completed the rollout of its first “core update” of 2024, which […]

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Ibotta Crosses The IPO Finish Line – Now The Real Work Begins

Ibotta (pronounced like “I bought a”) has made many twists and turns between when it was founded 13 years ago and going public last week. It was founded as a cashback app that earned a living on the value of customer receipts. And its evolution since then is emblematic of the industry’s overall transition from […]

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Inside AB InBev’s Strategy For Tapping Into First-Party Data

Pour one out for third-party data. These days, AB InBev’s digital marketing strategy is built squarely on first-party data. All its first-party data – roughly 100 million customer records – is housed within a single customer data platform (CDP). With all of its data accessible in one place, AB InBev can generate customer insights across […]

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