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 27, 2021 Is Google Taking Double? Google and Facebook Colluded Against Apple? How Apple's Privacy Changes Actually Hurt Google Takes Double What Competition Takes For Ad Deals? Talk about inflating ad deals. In an unredacted lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, it…
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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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August 26, 2021 What Will Apple's Mail Privacy Protection Mean For Newsletters? Amazon Gets a Boost from Apple's ATT Does the FTC Understand Ad Tech? Newsletter Marketing Under Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection Image by Muhammad Ribkhan from Pixabay Spoiler alert: It’s not pretty. Many publications opine that Apple Mail Privacy…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 29, 2021 Chrome Releases Privacy Sandbox Timeline; Still Not Supporting ID Alternatives Google released the timeline for the Privacy Sandbox and is finally bidding adieu to third-party cookies in 2023— maybe it's for real this time. This estimated timeline is based on origin trials, Privacy Sandbox use…
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Google released the timeline for the Privacy Sandbox and is finally bidding adieu to third-party cookies in 2023— maybe it's for real this time. This estimated timeline is based on origin trials, Privacy Sandbox use cases, readiness at scale, and ending support for third-party cookies. Chrome will continue to update…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 15, 2021 What Are Publisher Cohorts? The upcoming loss of third-party identifiers within Chrome, and the changes that Apple has already made in that space, means that first-party data is in a strong position. Losing cross-domain identifiers only strengthens publishers’ first-party data, as a viable option for advertisers…
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