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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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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We’re happy to announce that we’re bringing on adtech content maven, Tameka Kee, as our new Head of Content to guide us in building our blueprint for the future — so that we can continue to provide you with the same high-quality content and experiences that you’ve become accustomed to.…
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With the impending death of the cookie, there's been a spate of email newsletter acquisitions (and launches) signaling a renewed interest—from publishers and marketers alike—in the channel's potential for improving first-party data strategies and growing revenue, while at the same time building deeper and more engaging relationships with audiences. We…
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It can’t be overstated how much of a hit in revenue publishers took in 2020. In its “Outlook for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising in 2021” report, Winterberry Group estimates the decline in global ad spend at ~$39b compared to 2019. We caught up with the report's author, Bruce Biegel to learn…
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Ad platforms spent the 2010’s rapidly innovating new ways to target, personalize, and measure advertising, largely based on third-party (3P) tracking. Money poured in from advertisers and agencies looking to shed the waste and uncertainty of traditional media and optimize campaigns right down to the user level. And today, digital…
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Data Privacy Day is Jan. 28. We caught up with Lotame's General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer Amy Yeung to talk about what Data Privacy Day means to her and how publishers and advertisers can work together to guarantee scale in a cookieless advertising environment while also ensuring consumers' privacy.
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It's an age-old question: client-side or server-side, or presumably both? Client-side, while a definite improvement over the waterfall, does have its shortcomings. It increases the audience match rate, but at the expense of latency. And then server-side reduces latency, but at the expense of the match rate. We asked Evgeny…
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After 118 years, the AAA brand has come to mean reliability and responsiveness. It continues to increase its membership and other powerful brands seek to align with AAA to gain from the glow of this trusted American institution. But the changing culture, habits, and behaviors of younger Americans prompted AAA…
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