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The Unintended Consequences of a TikTok Ban

If you live in DC, you may have noticed a new breed of lobbyists in town: the TikTok influencer. Politico reported that these folks planned to “flood” the city this week with its presence in an effort to stave off the U.S. government’s attempt to ban the app, unless ByteDance…

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Are Publishers Pushing Back at Third-party Verification Vendors?

It’s not that anyone questions the need to verify placements or for third-party verification vendors to do so on behalf of clients, especially in the open programmatic markets. We all understand that advertisers don’t want to purchase inventory blindly and risk placing ads in horrific environments. Nor do they want…

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Survey Says Consumers Concerned Apps Are Mishandling Their Data

Secure Data Recovery conducted a study to find out which apps American consumers trust least with their data collection practices. They discovered that women's health apps are the least trusted with data, and around 61% of people surveyed deleted an app because of data collection and privacy concerns. 

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What Are Standard Cohorts?

Standard cohorts are interest-based publisher cohorts that can be generated automatically based on publishers’ first-party data. They are created using Natural Language Processing and the IAB 1.1 Audience Taxonomy, leveraging consistent and standardized behavior inputs.

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