Data + Privacy

This December, Sequent Partners will say farewell to the advertising and media industries.   After 21 years of devising innovative ways to improve the effectiveness of advertising investments, we’ve decided it’s time. Freedom and the open road beckon. We will be retiring from media consulting. And while we will continue to provide assistance to the industry […]

A recent McKinsey report surveying C-suite-level marketing leaders revealed what the industry has known for some time: the purview of the CMO has expanded… yet again.

Trump won the 2024 election. To discuss how paid media played a role (and didn’t) in his victory, we bring on guest Jordan Lieberman, CEO of Power Interactive. The programmatic buying company handled more than 1,000 digital campaigns across the political spectrum this election cycle.

On October 27, 1994, I watched history unfold as the first-ever digital banner ads ran on HotWired.com. Roughly a dozen ads went live that day, catapulting the world of advertising into a new era.  As we mark the 30th anniversary of that monumental milestone, I can’t help but draw parallels between that moment and the […]

To explain Forrester’s latest creative ad tech wave, we bring on author, Senior Analyst Nikhil Lai. Then, the untold story of how Prebid.org became an independent industry organization.

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 […]

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?

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 […]

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 […]

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.