Why Publishers Need a CMP Now

In a recent webinar, Personalization & Privacy: Your Third-Party Cookie Replacement Game Plan, Arshdeep Sood, Solutions Engineer, OneTrust, laid out a plan for a future without cookies, explaining why it's important publishers have a CMP in place to adhere to regulatory guidelines, as well as why it's important to start…

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What Is CPA (or ColoPA)?

On July 7, 2021, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Privacy Act (aka CPA or ColoPA depending on who you ask) into law. This makes Colorado the third state — joining California and Virginia — to pass comprehensive privacy legislation. Publishers and marketers will need to comply by July…

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FLoC Trial Ends, None the Wiser

  Powered by: July 13, 2021 FLoC Trial Ends, Results Go Private USA Today Launches Regwall, But For Who? How Different Generations Approach Ad Blocking Biden to Big Tech: Bye, Bye, Bye Around the Water Cooler FLoC Testing Concludes, Results To Be Unknown Image sourced from Chrome Origin Trials The…

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What Lies Ahead for Marketers and Publishers Sans Cookies?

Lotame released the findings of “Beyond the Cookie: The Future of Advertising for Marketers & Publishers,” during a recent webinar with AdMonsters. The results: Three in five agreed that people-based identity solutions are necessary. The same respondents emphasized the need for interoperability.

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The Current (and Future) State of Prebid: A Q&A with OpenX’s Tom Levesque

There’s a certain amount of volatility inherent in programmatic advertising — it is based on auction dynamics, after all — which is why many publishers rely on standards like Prebid to help balance out some of the chaos. So we caught up with Tom Levesque, VP Product Management, OpenX, to…

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What Are Publisher Cohorts?

The upcoming loss of third-party identifiers within Chrome, and the changes that Apple has already made in that space, means that first-party data is in a strong position. Losing cross-domain identifiers only strengthens publishers’ first-party data, as a viable option for advertisers to continue reaching consumers. And this first-party data can…

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The Future—and Present—of Bidstream Efficiency Lies with Traffic Shaping

While there are multiple reasons for the growing inefficiencies in the ad buying process, one of the fundamental reasons can be traced to the widespread adoption of header bidding. When publishers first began using header bidding strategies in the mid-2010s, it immediately led to rapid growth in the number and…

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🌯 Cracking Down on the Foreign Consumer Data Trade

  Powered by: July 7, 2021 Data Export Crackdown Underway Supply Chain Validation Gets a Boost How WFH Shaped Ad Blocking Big Tech, Hot Seat Around the Water Cooler Senator Plans Crackdown on Ad Tech Data Sharing With Foreign Adversaries The global real-time bidding (RTB) ad marketplace is a hotbed…

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🌯 Will IP Address Signals Disappear Next?

June 30, 2021 Are IP Address Signals Disappearing? The Audio Boom Continues Around the Water Cooler Forget the Cookie — What About the Potential Loss of IP Address Signals? Will ad tech ever catch a break? Probably not anytime soon. Third-party cookies are near death, there’s more unknown than known…

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Tubi Becomes First CTV Pub to Implement UID 2.0

The Google third-party cookie crackdown might be on pause, but that's not stopping pubs from testing likely alternatives. Fox Entertainment owned, ad-supported video-on-demand service, Tubi now joins a growing list of publishers supporting Unified ID 2.0 as “the first CTV publisher to implement Unified ID 2.0 to solve for the…

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