Consumer trust in social media is greatly waning thanks to the fake news outbreak. It only makes sense that audiences are now turning back to trusted publishers, but they’re doing it in an interesting way. Rather than visiting the home page of their favorite publishers, they’re subscribing to their email…
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In-housing—programmatic and creative—and social responsibility campaigns were the hottest brand issues at the 2019 Cannes Lions festival. Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway shares his discoveries in each category... While warning yacht-goers about rogue saxophonists.
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As the word “Addressable!” echoed from beach to yacht to luxury suite across La Croisette in Cannes, a solidly digital friend asked me, “What does that even mean?” I smirked and replied, “It’s a TV industry term for what digital people consider programmatic TV-buying, and it looks like digital is…
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As loath as I am to surrender to the “Year of” superlative in the digital advertising space, it’s quickly looking like 2019 is the year of connected TV. Talk at both AdMonsters Ops and Cannes Lions were dominated by the subject, and a new report from advanced video ad server…
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Direct sales are on the rise—which is great news! It’s just that orders are somehow becoming even more complicated, crossing a seemingly endless river of channels. Publishers need as much automation as possible in their workflows, and the tools are up to the task—particularly tighter integrations with advertiser planning and…
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OTT ad spend is expected to hit $5 billion by 2020, but it’s also adding another platform to an already fragmented landscape. As TV and the need for cross-screen and OTT campaigns become more prevalent, clients must find partners that can execute traditionally and programmatically.
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For any publisher, edge computing is becoming the only way to process data in a privacy-compliant way. User data is (by design) protected because it never leaves the device. This means a publisher can process data in a world without cookies and with increased government regulation (even under its strictest…
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"I think that there’s a tendency for folks to believe that better bandwidth (as enabled by 5G) will solve all of our page-load time problems, but that’s not necessarily the case," says Marketing, Strategy, Emerging Technology & Innovation Consultant, Jeremy Lockhorn. "5G is likely to make things worse before it…
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“The average user scrolls through 300-feet worth of news feeds every day—that’s the height of the statue of liberty,” explains Ryan Pauley, CRO of Vox Media, citing one of his favorite statistics. “How do you build a relationship with consumers when your primary way of reaching them gives you only…
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Marie Kondo will be at the Cannes Lions festival. That’s all you need to know. That’s all I care about. On Monday, Ms. Kondo—or MK Ultra, as I call her—will be on a panel called “Less Stuff, More Joy: Life-Changing Japanese Creativity.” She will deliver her message of reaching the…
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