Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider about the practice of segmenting and analyzing content. So in advance of our upcoming Revenue Strategy Session,…
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November 03, 2021 Apple Didn't Hit Twitter's Revenue Is Spotify Gunning For the Number 4 Spot? Twitter Flies Away from Apple’s Revenue Hits Many companies felt the brunt of Apple’s privacy changes earlier this year, but Twitter was not one of them. Its quarterly revenue went up 37%, causing stock…
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Supply Path Optimization (SPO), aka finding the most direct route to a publisher’s inventory, sounds like an activity that’s best left to the world’s DSPs. After all, they’re the ones with the AI-powered algorithms that focus on winning ad placements for advertisers. SPO actually requires teamwork amongst all parties, especially those…
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October 13, 2021 The Race to the Bottom Continues Marketers Still Eating the Cookies? The Race to the Bottom Continues We all love loads of irrelevant ads littering our in-app experience,s don’t we? Don’t we? And aren’t they all just great for the industry overall? Aren't they? Well, that seems…
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September 30, 2021 Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education The Funny Treatment WaPo's Digital Ad Network Finally Comes to Life Amazon Follows Apple’s Lead but Is It in the Wrong Direction? Around the Water Cooler Ad Land Gives Ad Tech’s Cookie Education the Funny Treatment It’s hard for…
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Everyone loves a good proof of concept before pouring hundreds of thousands, or millions, into an idea. Shoppable content is one such idea, and it’s a lucrative, proven, revenue model. When activations like shoppable content are woven through editorial content, the line is blurred between where editorial reporting stops and…
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The sheer number of proposed solutions to the third-party cookie almost guarantees that there will be no single winner and that publishers will need to adopt a multi-point approach to meet the needs of their ad partners. Figuring out what that exact approach needs to be will require serious testing…
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September 08, 2021 The Duopoly in Hot Water With Sen. Warren Nielsen TV Accreditation Gone Bye Bye Is Apple Making Additional Concessions? Google and Facebook on Sen. Warren’s Naughty List Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay Sen. Elizabeth Warren is coming after Google and Facebook hard, writing a letter to…
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September 02, 2021 Phantom Ad Requests Are Robbing CTV's Ad Dollars Is Apple Really Giving Into App Pubs? The UK Could Be Leaning Into Consumer Choice Phantom Ad Requests Rob CTV of Millions of Ad Dollars Photo by Tara Winstead from Pexels According to eMarketer, 55% of CTV ad budgets…
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A new study released by AAX: Why Block Ads? Behind User Reasons and Motivations, sifted through years of data on internet behavior collected by GlobalWebIndex (GWI). The goal? Getting to know more about ad filterers, a large demo defined by GWI as “selective ad-blocking users” a.k.a. folks who have installed…
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