Last year the trend was set for publishers playing a key role in ecommerce. Now, with homebound consumers shopping more online than ever, publishers are playing a critical role as we see a mass consumer shift to online shopping, with an accompanying reliance on trustworthy product reviews like Holiday Gift…
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Balance is an important part of being a trusted news brand. But how do you keep your balance when you find yourself reporting from the center of the Hong Kong protests and months of unrest? South China Morning Post decided to develop a tool that read the headlines of every article…
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Senior Editor, Lynne d Johnson, recently chatted with Garrett Johnson—a marketing professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. His research focuses on privacy, the value of cookies, and the effectiveness of advertising. She was interested in a presentation he made to the W3C about the Economics of Digital Ad…
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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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One day, hopefully in the not too distant future, the Pandemic will meet its bitter end. But until then, publishers are adapting to the new normal and steadily planning for that fateful day. For now, they’re living in the era of the pivot, where the most promising path to revenue…
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As we inch closer toward a cookieless world, identity solutions have been touted as the perfect panacea. But before going all in on one identity solution over another, wouldn’t it be prudent to weigh all of your options? You wouldn’t invest all your money in one stock, would you? So why…
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With the announcement of the end of the third party cookie, now is the time to shift the balance of power back to publishers. A strong first-party data strategy empowers publishers to go on the offensive and recoup lost revenue.
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Powered by: November 03, 2020 Ruh-roh Google's reCAPTCHA Busted? Ad Filterers Lead the Pack in Brand Discovery Apple Is Getting Its Search On Google’s reCAPTCHA Busted For Enabling Personalized Ad Targeting Image sourced from Twitter Victory Medium founder Zach Edwards was highlighted in an item The Register, by Thomas…
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Last week, LiveRamp announced that its Authenticated Identity Infrastructure would support The Trade Desk’s Unified ID 2.0 (now without third-party cookies!). The biggest concern about whether identity-based universal IDs—like LiveRamp’s and TTD’s Unified ID 2.0—can be successful (and potentially save the open programmatic ecosystem from being dominated by walled gardens) is…
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As damaging as COVID-19 has been to publishers’ revenues, it has presented them with an opportunity to rethink their business models with a focus on building their first-party data strategies. Publishers are finding themselves in a new world that’s been accelerated by the pandemic, as well as privacy regulations granting…
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