Last Wednesday, The House passed a bill demanding that ByteDance sell TikTok to another owner or the government will pull the plug for its 170 million users based in the U.S. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bill blindsided TikTok executives.
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Some see sports as linear's saving grace, but with live sports more prevalent than ever on CTV, only time will tell if linear has a lasting impact. ComScore's annual State of Streaming report shows that the number of CTV hours per household has increased by 21%. Numbers are only expected to go…
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Buyers suspect that streaming publishers are less than transparent in their reporting, despite promises made last year by GroupM and others.
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According to the IAB/PwC revenue report for 2022, the digital advertising sector dodged a bullet. “In 2022, the digital advertising industry showed resilience in the face of a strained economy, with ad revenues year-over-year securing double-digit growth and totaling over $200 billion for the first time,” its authors write.
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IAB created Project Crosswalk to help publishers and advertisers who want to participate in the CTV boom but are worried about privacy compliance guidelines. The project is a working group of the IAB Legal Affairs Council that identifies privacy complications in CTV and develops solutions to these compliance issues. The…
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Daily Yoga experienced a slowdown in subscriber rate and challenges evaluating performance after the IOS14 update. Since the brand monetizes through its premium subscription service, it needed to gain access to audiences likely to become subscribers. Daily Yoga found a solution by utilizing AppLovin’s AppDiscovery platform.
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Environmental sustainability has become a global priority amongst many industries. With research on how our carbon footprint has affected the environment, everyone has begun to reassess how they can make their workflow more sustainable. A recent study by Sharethrough provides a substantial explanation of how the ad tech industry can…
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June 27, 2022 Is America Moving Toward a Consent Popup Nightmare? Streaming Ad Spend New Focal Point of US Upfronts 20% Drop in European Ad Fraud? Around the Water Cooler House Panel Moves Towards Opt-In Privacy Bill The "American Data Privacy and Protection Act" was recently reintroduced. The bill's current version…
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June 13, 2022 Netflix To Join Forces With Roku? Recession Where? Ad Spend Predicted To Soar Streaming Services Ad Rates Around the Water Cooler Netflix To Skip Ad Steps With Potential Roku Acquisition Recently, we gave you all a warning about ads potentially coming to Netflix, one of the only…
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This week, we were presented with a major IAB Tech Lab ads.txt update as they announced two new values for publishers to add to their ads.txt files, and both have the power to impact the adtech game in a big way. "Ownerdomain" and "managerdomain" have two separate functions within ads.txt,…
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