October 27, 2020 Apple's SKAdNetwork Has Major Bugs What the FLoC? Apple's SKAdNetwork Has Major Bugs Image sourced from Apple It turns out that Apple may have been a little dishonest with their reasoning behind delaying IDFA changes until 2021. They originally said it was because developers weren't ready for…
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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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October 20, 2020 IAB Europe Fails GDPR Standard Ecommerce on the Rise Ad Tech IPO Rumors Abound TCF Fails GDPR Standard Image sourced from Twitter This is big news y’all. The Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD-GBA) has conducted an investigation of the IAB and its Transparency Consent Framework and found…
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October 13, 2020 Ad Tech Says No to Google Gatekeeper Role Is There a Happy Medium to Publisher Data Leakage? OTT/CTV Ad Spend Up—Despite Pandemic Should Google Be the Gatekeeper? Image by Lothar Dieterich from Pixabay Much of the future of advertising is being discussed in W3C meetings every week,…
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On the eve of DPAA's 2020 Video Every Summit, senior editor, Lynne d Johnson, spoke with the organization's president and CEO, Barry Frey, about the role DOOH played during the early days of the pandemic and how advancements in data and technology are positioning the industry to reap its just…
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We caught up with Alicia Ray, Founder of The Ad Tech Collective, a community for Black people in ad tech to network and learn from one another within ad tech. She was a participant on the Minority Report Podcast Live session and she has some great ideas about how companies…
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October 06, 2020 Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Europe's Programmatic Revenue Grows—Despite GDPR Deciphering Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Image sourced from Google Google is opening its big fat wallet to news publishers, with the intention of giving away $1bn in licensing fees over the next three years. The announcement was made in…
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September 29, 2020 Dotdash's Recipe for Success ANA Pushes for Federal Privacy Regs Can Media Take on the Big Boys? Only 14% of Advertisers Satisfied with Decisioning Solutions Dotdash Has the Recipe for Success Image sourced from Data: Dotdash; Table: Naema Ahmed/Axios While many publishers are floundering to stay alive…
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We decided now was a perfect time to survey publishers to understand their current header (and Open Bidding) setups while seeing what they were plotting for an ambiguous future. We asked 35 publishers of various sizes and content verticals to fill out an intense questionnaire, and the results were extremely…
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In a recent AdMonsters Webinar with Permutive, Goodbye Cookie, Hello New Data Strategy, Nathan Bell, SVP, Data and Business Analytics and Rachael McCombs, Sr. Director of Ad and Media Operations shared why Digital Trends decided to work with Permutive and how it is developing its first-party data strategy.
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