Powered by: July 21, 2020 Amazon Drops Fees When Going Through Its DSP AVOD Opportunities Aplenty IAB TCF 2.0: Considerations CCPA 2.0 Is Gunning For Ad Tech Advertisers Fly Non-Stop Programmatic and Save The now-infamous ISBA study has many marketers wondering where that mysterious and unaccounted-for 15% of their…
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We heard about a letter sent to the W3C Advisory Board, signed by 19 W3C members asking for an intervention because they felt that the voices of members from smaller organizations were not being recognized or taken seriously. The top name on this letter was James Rosewell, CEO and Co-Founder…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 16, 2020 Sellers Need Buy-Side Transparency Transparency concerns have long plagued open advertising markets, scaring away participants on the buy and sell-side of open real-time bidding advertising transactions. The buy-side has ads.txt and sellers.json. Unfortunately, sell-side participants—publishers—often have difficulty obtaining basic levels of transparency in reverse when…
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July 14, 2020 It's Not a Recovery—But It's Something SMBs Can't Leave Facebook Alone CCPA's Facebook Challenges Peacock Walled Garden Plans Get Blocked Don’t Call It a Comeback—Yet Ad spend may have begun slowly trickling through the programmatic pipes starting in May, but beleaguered advertisers aren’t at all hopeful that…
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In the wake of the ISBA Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study, there was immediate focus on who was most adversely affected, as well as the mysterious unknown delta. While these are interesting data points, MightyHive's Head of Media Activation, Rachel Adams, was taken aback by another issue—how difficult it was…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 9, 2020 Can Traffic Shaping Bridge the Gulf Between SSPs and DSPs? The antiquated idea that SSPs are publisher defenders and DSPs are buyer advocates has created a gulf—one might say a black hole of pricing machinations and Russian-Doll-style auctions that threatens to suck away the benefits…
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July 07, 2020 Facebook Ad Boycott Drags Pubs Down Google and European Publishers Butt Heads Why Is Clothing Topping Paid Ad Impressions? Advertising Doesn't Earn Consumer Trust Pubs Dragged Down by Facebook Ad Boycott We know what you’re thinking, publisher—all those big brands boycotting Facebook in July means moolah is…
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In May, Criteo submitted SPARROW (Secure Private Advertising Remotely Run On Webserver) to the W3C in response to Google's privacy sandbox proposal. In response to industry-wide feedback, SPARROW was recently updated to include reporting capabilities to further secure users’ privacy without compromising advertisers’ performance. We spoke with Charles-Henri Henault, VP…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 2, 2020 Supply-Side Audience Data Insertion? SpotX and Acxiom Say Oh Yeah As the third-party tracking cookie continues its long, long farewell tour, advertisers and publishers alike are looking for replacement targeting solutions—particularly ones that won't steep them in the user privacy quagmire. Tech providers seem to…
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June 30, 2020 Google to Pay for the News? Some Harsh Truths in EC’s Rosy GDPR Assessment Marketer Ad Spend Down, Tech Spend Up Google to Pay for the News? After years of refusing to pay publishers for news content, Google has reversed its stance. Last week the company announced…
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