Last week, LiveRamp announced that its Authenticated Identity Infrastructure would support The Trade Desk’s Unified ID 2.0 (now without third-party cookies!). The biggest concern about whether identity-based universal IDs—like LiveRamp’s and TTD’s Unified ID 2.0—can be successful (and potentially save the open programmatic ecosystem from being dominated by walled gardens) is…
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It was slow starting for self-service ad platforms. Buyers were hellbent on using exchanges to cherry-pick their inventory. But 2020 is an extremely different marketplace, largely shaped by how the global Coronavirus pandemic has altered the landscape. In particular, publishers’ sales teams are focusing on big buys, leaving occasional smaller…
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Our interest in the federal government’s antitrust suit against Google took a huge dive when we learned it would be centered around search. While mainstream publications trotted out the tired descriptor “landmark” for the headlines when the suit became public, many of us in the industry shook our heads and…
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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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