While GroupM and others are forecasting a modest slowdown in advertising spending next year, one channel will see a sizable bump: retail media. According to a DoubleVerify survey of 400 US, UK, French, and German marketers, retail media networks are an attractive, privacy-friendly way to reach new customers and engage consumers…
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A new CIMM + 4As report offers a methodological approach for assessing privacy liabilities, as well as established and emerging solutions to help TV advertisers launch privacy-compliant campaigns.
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According to Whistleblower Aid, representing Dr. Donovan, in 2021, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative pledged $500 million over 15 years to found Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. It was the largest single contribution in the school's history. Both Chan and Zuckerberg attended Harvard.
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In early December, the ANA published its Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. It is a massive undertaking, as the researchers parsed the log-level data of 21 prominent advertisers to track the entire journey of their investments in the open web. Those campaigns represented $88 billion. Two years in the making,…
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This January 15, people across Iowa will gather to caucus, officially kicking off the 2024 election cycle. Political campaigns and PACs are expected to pour $10 billion into political ads in an attempt to sway voter behavior. Much of that will be spent online. We already see troubling issues on…
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A Q&A with Ravi Mittal, Founder and CEO of Vuukle, on how publishers can leverage quizzes to build audiences, collect first-party data, and drive engagement. The demise of the third-party cookie once sent waves of fear through the digital advertising ecosystem, but not anymore. That’s because, in the years that…
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Long before MediaMath shut down, Mike Hauptman and Dan Bougourd were intrigued by the idea of building a meta DSP. They both joined MediaMath in the company’s early days, but by 2018, they were itching to bring programmatic advertising to the mid-market advertiser.
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Today, we are battling a new scourge: overtourism. Social media is turning people into bad tourists. How should brands step up to help resolve this challenge?
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To learn more about FAST and where it fits into the TV landscape, we talked with Ron Gutman, CEO of Wurl, a 25-year veteran of the TV industry. Wurl and Samsung launched the world’s first native FAST channel in 2018, and today Gutman is hoping that over the next five…
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We spoke with Jack Smith, Chief Product Officer at DoubleVerify, to assess how the industry assesses the damage of MFA websites. According to the ANA, these sites were often the worst of the worst, rife with disinformation, conspiracy theories, and spammy links.
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