October 27, 2020 Apple's SKAdNetwork Has Major Bugs What the FLoC? Apple's SKAdNetwork Has Major Bugs Image sourced from Apple It turns out that Apple may have been a little dishonest with their reasoning behind delaying IDFA changes until 2021. They originally said it was because developers weren't ready for…
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As damaging as COVID-19 has been to publishers’ revenues, it has presented them with an opportunity to rethink their business models with a focus on building their first-party data strategies. Publishers are finding themselves in a new world that’s been accelerated by the pandemic, as well as privacy regulations granting…
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As privacy restrictions began to tighten, Digital Media & Measurement Consultant, Rachel Adams had concerns that the digital media industry would no longer be data-driven, and she'd end up in the “integrated” media world again, where most buys were considered equally difficult to measure, and plans saw few changes quarter…
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Magnite recently released a new proposal in Google's Privacy Sandbox called PARRROT. We reached out to Garrett McGrath, VP of Product Management at Magnite, to sort out all of these birds so we can figure out how each of them might shape the future of advertising—either separately or together.
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October 20, 2020 IAB Europe Fails GDPR Standard Ecommerce on the Rise Ad Tech IPO Rumors Abound TCF Fails GDPR Standard Image sourced from Twitter This is big news y’all. The Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD-GBA) has conducted an investigation of the IAB and its Transparency Consent Framework and found…
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John Shankman, CEO of Hashtag Labs, introduced us to the concept of an Advertising Management System. Much like a Content Management Systems (CMS) is for editors to update the website, an Advertising Management System (AMS) like HTL BID allows ad operations to manage header bidding settings and even keep up…
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In a privacy-forward world, where regulations like GDPR and CCPA have made data collection more complex, publishers are actually thinking beyond regulatory compliance and moving to the next chapter of consumer consent—demonstrating the value exchange.
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We heard an old dear friend, Dennis Colón, who we knew from his days as an ad ops exec at Conde Nast and CBSi had recently joined SuperAwesome as VP of Global Operations. SuperAwesome’s technology powers safe digital engagement with the under-16 crowd, enabling 12 billion monthly transactions, including safe…
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October 13, 2020 Ad Tech Says No to Google Gatekeeper Role Is There a Happy Medium to Publisher Data Leakage? OTT/CTV Ad Spend Up—Despite Pandemic Should Google Be the Gatekeeper? Image by Lothar Dieterich from Pixabay Much of the future of advertising is being discussed in W3C meetings every week,…
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On the eve of DPAA's 2020 Video Every Summit, senior editor, Lynne d Johnson, spoke with the organization's president and CEO, Barry Frey, about the role DOOH played during the early days of the pandemic and how advancements in data and technology are positioning the industry to reap its just…
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