As the imminent death of third-party cookies and Google’s push for FLoC creates new headaches, publishers want to know that every SSP they work with has their back and that they are navigating the changes together. What’s more, they want to make sure their SSPs provide truly personalized service, reporting,…
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It can’t be overstated how much of a hit in revenue publishers took in 2020. In its “Outlook for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising in 2021” report, Winterberry Group estimates the decline in global ad spend at ~$39b compared to 2019. We caught up with the report's author, Bruce Biegel to learn…
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Now, with the rapid migration of audiences to CTV platforms just as CTV paid and ad-supported channels have exploded on the scene in 2020, both viewers and advertisers are further challenged. Here are some of the latest developments with reach and message frequency in CTV and OTT, as well as…
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ROI has long been the bane of content marketing. Marketers know they need it, but understanding how it's being used and figuring out how it's moving consumers down the funnel has long been a challenge. Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson, spoke with Peyman Nilforoush, CEO and Co-Founder of inPowered about…
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It's an age-old question: client-side or server-side, or presumably both? Client-side, while a definite improvement over the waterfall, does have its shortcomings. It increases the audience match rate, but at the expense of latency. And then server-side reduces latency, but at the expense of the match rate. We asked Evgeny…
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Powered by: January 05, 2021 Advertising Spend Going Up How the NYTimes Weathered 2020 2021, Say Hello to Email Ding Dong, Adobe Flash is Dead Advertising Spend Going Up Image sourced from Mediapost 2020 was a tumultuous year for publishers, but signs that we're rebounding couldn't be more clear.…
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Powered by: November 24, 2020 Cue the AMP Exodus? Ad Flterers Love Interacting with Brands Cue the AMP Exodus? Image sourced from Google AMP The Top Stories carousel in Google Search—long a key reason publishers leverage Google’s open-source and relatively simple AMP framework—is about to become less exclusive. In…
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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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Every publisher has a treasure trove of data at their fingertips. One of the biggest challenges is turning that data into golden nuggets of insight that can propel the business to perform at high levels. That's why Ana Browne and Jon Dickinson launched Exigent Digital, coupling a unified data platform…
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September 22, 2020 TikTok’s Quite a Prize for Walmart and Oracle Quibi Is in Struggle Mode Putting Ad Tech Under the Blacklight Blockchain Proves Programmatic Potential TikTok’s Quite a Prize for Walmart and Oracle Image sourced from The Drum Although President Trump may have given the TikTok-Walmart-Oracle his “blessing,” the…
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