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With over 800 employees and a diverse range of partnerships, including major retailers like Walmart and Kroger, Ibotta is revolutionizing the landscape of consumer promotions. Delve into the rise of this Walmart-backed company, which has attained a multibillion-dollar market capitalization by offering consumers cash back and valuable insights into their purchasing habits. Ibotta’s innovative approach […]

Towards the end of last year, my company began to notice an uptick in malicious redirects stemming from video ad units—a first for the digital media ecosystem. Specifically, scammers have begun injecting malicious redirects through VAST tags that redirect users to a fraudulent website, regardless of whether the ad was played or for how long a user watched it.

With purchase cycles spanning weeks and customers encountering hundreds of auto ads, it can be difficult to differentiate yourself from the competition. Add the slow demise of 3rd-party cookies, and it’s never been harder to get your ad in front of your target customer. CTV is helping fill the void.

Google gave third-party cookies yet another stay of execution. And the digital ad industry is not shocked. For companies that have been testing Google’s cookie alternative, the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, another delay was starting to feel inevitable, even before Google shifted its deprecation deadline Tuesday to an undisclosed date “early next year,” citing “ongoing challenges…reconciling […]

As the saying goes, ‘With great popularity comes great scrutiny.’ The House’s sudden decision to ban TikTok in March, which caught TikTok executives off guard, is a testament to this. The strained relationship between our government and the ByteDance-owned company, exemplified by CEO Shou Zi Chew’s contentious court appearance with Senator Tom Cotton, further adds to the drama. 

By next year, Google will have three separate business lines – Search, YouTube and Cloud – that each generate roughly twelve digits per year. That’s around $100 billion apiece. To put this into perspective, it took 15 years for Google to grow into a $100 billion per-year business – and just six years to triple its […]

Third-party cookies: Can’t live with ‘em, can’t seem to get rid of ‘em. Earlier this week, Google delayed third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome for the third time. The end of third-party cookies will now happen in 2025, likely towards the beginning of the year. The exact timing is TBD. 🤯 😮 😱 Not really. The […]

President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that will ban TikTok from US app stores unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the platform within a year. We asked the experts what marketers and media buyers should do to prepare for the possible ban.

The IAB projects digital video ad spend will rise to $63 billion in 2024, representing a 16% increase from last year. Of the three video ad categories the report breaks out (social and online video and CTV), the clear winner is social video.

The ad tech industry is experiencing a serious case of déjà vu. Google announced that it will no longer fully eliminate Chrome’s third-party cookies by the end of this year. But what does the industry think? We asked 17 ad tech thought leaders for their points of view, and here’s what they had to say.