The IAB releases its State of Data Report every year to understand how the industry is tackling data evolution. This year's study reveals that the digital advertising industry has acknowledged the lasting impact of data privacy changes and signal loss, but these have magnified measurement and addressability issues.
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Everyone in the publishing industry is interested in watching The New York Times v. OpenAI. The New York Times filed a suit against the AI pioneer, claiming that ChatGPT was trained on its content, violating its copyrighted materials. OpenAI said there’s more to the story than meets the eye and…
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The ANA’s Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study finally elevates the role that systemic “information asymmetries” play in allowing programmatic waste to persist.
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After we published our article about Black-owned publishers’ concerns about being designated MFA sites, we spoke to some industry experts to understand how they define them, how to distinguish a bad site from a benign one, and to see if the industry’s standards label Black-owned publishers as MFA sites unfairly.
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Long before MediaMath shut down, Mike Hauptman and Dan Bougourd were intrigued by the idea of building a meta DSP. They both joined MediaMath in the company’s early days, but by 2018, they were itching to bring programmatic advertising to the mid-market advertiser.
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Ever since the Edward Snowden leaks, American consumers assumed the government was spying on them. A Pew Research Center survey released last week found that most Americans are concerned about how their data is used and don’t have any meaningful way to secure it.
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There are genuine MFA shoppers out there and that brands that advertise with MFAs may find enthusiastic audiences. However, there are limits to their enjoyment of ads. While some shoppers like advertising — and seek it out with online circulars and clicking on sites the industry calls MFAs — there’s…
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2023 is poised to be a year of growth, and the horizon for 2024 appears even more promising. According to the latest industry insights from Madison and Wall's Brian Wieser, the U.S. ad industry is expected to witness a robust 5% increase, reaching a staggering $363 billion in revenue for…
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While there have been some positive developments, as highlighted in a recent study by the ANA’s Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM) in collaboration with MAVEN/Media Framework, LGBTQ ad spend nearly doubled from 2020 to 2022, reaching $15 million. However, there is still room for improvement.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the company of signing users up for Prime without their knowledge. Now, when any website only provides a halfway decent ad experience, they can fall on the crutch of, "At least I didn't sign my users up for a…
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