A damning CNN report highlights some serious brand safety fails on YouTube. Must advertisers accept the risk of appearing next to unsavory YouTube content or could the platform leverage contextual intelligence tools to allay brand safety concerns?
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News briefs: Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg say they support the Honest Ads Act, which appears stalled in the Senate, and which the platforms say they can surpass where privacy is concerned. Also, the IAB’s Open Measurement SDK (for in-app viewability and verification) is out of beta now, and the Chief…
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New at this year’s Ops is the AdMonsters Power List, which looks to recognize individuals who are revolutionizing the digital media world through advertising, marketing, and monetization efforts. Just like the ad ops people whose toil ended laying the foundation for the digital ad ecosystem, we aim to recognize the…
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Rob Beeler learns the true meaning of rubbernecking, and he's here to tell us how it relates to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica/data privacy problems, GDPR preparation (or lack thereof), and buzzworthy tech like blockchain and AI.
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This week's news briefs: AppNexus backed out of the MRC's buy-side accreditation process. EBDA is out of beta. NBCU will transact on impressions for both digital and TV. Digital pubs are getting in on YouTube TV.
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News briefs for Apr. 2:Facebook makes it harder for advertisers to use third-party data sets. There's confusion around how GroupM expects publishers to comply with GDPR. More than a quarter of web traffic could be bots, but that could be partly okay.
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Here's the conclusion of this three-part interview series with Claudia Page, Dailymotion's VP, Product and Partner Development. Claudia tells Gavin Dunaway that publishers will always need larger platforms to drive traffic to their O&Os. But when pubs look to these platforms, they need not only the traffic, but opportunities to…
Read MoreAdMonsters March 29, 2018 Minding Your Demand Partners: Take Our Partner Evaluation/Ad Quality Survey Publishers have so many demand partners to work with today... which can be challenging when you need to track down the source of redirects, bad creative, low fill rates, and other indicators of poor quality.…
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Publishers have so many demand partners to work with today... which can be challenging when you need to track down the source of redirects, bad creative, low fill, and other indicators of poor quality. How do you decide which of your partners can stay, and which need to be cut…
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In the second of this three-part interview series, Claudia Page, Dailymotion's VP, Product and Partner Development, shows Gavin Dunaway a world outside of Facebook for content distribution and for getting traffic. Facebook, she says, has veered away from its most distinct core features, and there are pluses and minuses in…
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