August 10, 2021 Digital Subs Keeping Big Pubs Alive Malvertising Now Infiltrating IOT Devices Mozilla Disses SWAN and UID 2.0 Around the Water Cooler Digital Subscriptions Holding Steady, For Now Image by Markus Winkler from Pixabay Digital subscriptions to newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal…
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August 3, 2021 Google Spotted Readying Android's Apple ATT Alternative In the Wild Criteo Observes FLoC Trials; Not Enough Data In-game Advertising on the Rise Around the Water Cooler Is Google Readying Their Own Version of Apple’s ATT? It appears that Google is readying their own version of Apple's ATT,…
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Powered by: July 20, 2021 Targeted Ads Miss the Mark Global Privacy Control Must Be Honored By All How Has Ad Blocking Changed Since 2017? Big Brands Acquiring Ad Tech at Lightning Speed Around the Water Cooler Research Finds Targeted Ads Miss the Mark Photo by Ricardo Arce on…
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February 10, 2021 Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic NY Times Unlocks First-party Data Revenue Ad Tech Consolidation Nation Around the Water Cooler Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic Image sourced from While global ad spending no doubt took a substantial hit in 2020, Google’s parent company Alphabet posted record…
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The latest trend in profit and brand expansion is not isolated to the music industry. It’s the writing on the wall for what media companies should and need to do with their brand prowess. What you read/ watch is as much a part of your personal brand as the music…
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Historically, the relationship between ad ops and sales has been labeled with an “It’s Complicated” status. But since the pandemic, the relationship between ad ops and sales has become far more collaborative. Now, the two teams are coming together to rethink and revise their processes, client approaches and even their…
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October 06, 2020 Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Europe's Programmatic Revenue Grows—Despite GDPR Deciphering Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Image sourced from Google Google is opening its big fat wallet to news publishers, with the intention of giving away $1bn in licensing fees over the next three years. The announcement was made in…
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You took a really big step by adding an identity partner, but like most things in ad tech you can’t expect to flip a switch and watch the magic happen. Activation, though, is where things get exciting—sure you’ll be able to garner looks from new advertisers and grab higher CPMs,…
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On Wednesdays at Publisher Forums, we let the attendees "take over" the conference. Attendee volunteers lead informal sessions with their peers on a variety of topics, and then report major takeaways to the whole group. Through the magic of technology (cough, Zoom, cough), we ran an experiment where we took this…
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As industry players are pondering the usefulness of the upfront in the digital age and digital publishers are bowing out of the NewFronts, Hulu pretty much gave a master class in how to do it right. The presentation was quite an inside look at the potential—or perhaps the fast-approaching future—of…
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