Powered by: March 16, 2021 Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Is Your CMS Killing Your ROI? Around the Water Cooler Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Ad tech is getting confusing AF. Immediately following the brouhaha over Google’s announcement to not support identifiers tracking users across…
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Move over COPPA, GDPR, CCPA and CPRA. There’s a new legislative acronym for publishers to watch: It’s called JCPA (short for the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2021). And though it’s not focused on privacy like the others, if it gets passed, the bill could be just as game-changing…
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With the pandemic putting a lot of digital media and ad tech companies in a black hole, SPACs are providing these companies with a means of digging themselves out. To gain a deeper understanding of SPACs, why they're trending now and how they can help digital media and ad tech,…
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Powered by: March 09, 2021 An Ecosystem Divided Brands Are Hungry For New Digital Ad Options Around the Water Cooler An Ecosystem Divided Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash "Are we creating two different ecosystems?" Shenan Reed, SVP, Head of Media, L'Oréal asked Jerry Dischler, Vice President / General…
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The announcement that Google won't replace third-party tracking cookies with alternative identifiers has set off alarms throughout the industry. But maybe, instead of being fearful about what comes next, it's time to welcome the challenge and get more creative about how we all plan for the future of digital advertising.…
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When McDonalds bought Dynamic Yield for $300 million in 2019, one of the benchmarks for the deal was whether the recommendation platform could help increase drive-through sales in the U.S. by 1% overall. Meanwhile, Yum Brands acquired the AI division of Kvantum, a performance marketing firm to use the platform…
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In celebration of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we reached out to Brenda Salce-Garcia, Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success, Operative and Co-founder & Empowerment Partner of TechBae, a community-driven organization that brings together women from leading ad tech and media companies to lift up and empower one…
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March 02, 2021 Podcasts' Future Depends On AdTech Nielsen Releases Cookieless ID What Else We're Reading Ad Tech Will Shape the Future of Podcasts While having a podcast host read ads on air has long been standard promotional practice in the industry, podcast networks are increasingly buying ad tech companies…
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Now with the recent influx of premium streaming services like Disney+ and HBO Max, along with changing CouchSurfing consumer behaviors brought on by the Pandemic, it looks like OTT is really set to take off. In fact, according to North America OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from analyst firm…
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2021 is already shaping up to be an improvement over last year, crippling snowstorms and vaccine shortage be damned. For pubs, the year also presents something of a fresh start. They are genuinely taking a ‘nowhere to go but up’ mentality this year, making most of the dregs befalling ad tech…
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