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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Recently selected to the Board of Directors at Prebid as a publisher representative, CafeMedia's Patrick McCann is tasked with ensuring that publishers' interests are heard throughout the organization and to communicate those interests to developers. At AdMonsters PubForum Virtual a few weeks back, McCann took to the main stage to…
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September 16, 2020 Facebook: Open Web Ally ITP Toggled on for All Browsers Political Ad Spend Will Spur Rebound Amazon Closes in on the Duopoly It's Official: Taboola and Outbrain Breakup Ad Blocking on the Decline FB Supports the Open Web? Image sourced from Twitter CafeMedia’s Chief Strategy Officer, Paul…
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We spoke with Jake Abraham, President at Audigent about why he thought pubs seemed a little gun shy about identity solutions, how they should go about showcasing their first-party data as well as how Audigent plans to help them drive revenue by making their audience data and inventory actionable for…
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September 08, 2020 Publisher Revenue Dips 2.3% A Viable Model for Local News? Pubs' Revenue Dips 2.3% It’s been hard out here for digital publishers in 2020. According to the latest Digital Publishers Revenue Index (DPRI), publishers’ revenue declined 2.3% YOY compared with Q1 2019. Overall, digital revenue fell by…
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September 01, 2020 No FAN of Apple’s iOS 14 changes Is It Too Soon to Call Programmatic the Comeback Kid Consumers Further Warming Up to Ad-Supported CTV Not a FAN of Apple’s iOS 14 changes (Update 9/4/20—Will you look at that? Apple has stepped back and says the iOS 14…
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August 25, 2020 Death Of Cookie Could Really Cost Pubs Rise of the Media Aggregators SSPs Take a Bath Cookie Death Even Worse Than Feared Image sourced from Twitter While we wholeheartedly agree the third-party tracking cookie has outlived its usefulness, we’ve also strongly held that its death could be…
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August 18, 2020 Pubs Missing From W3C? Google Lobbies Users Against ACCC Amazon Gains A Lead CCPA Finally Final Pubs Sorely Missing From W3C Conversations Is the future of advertising being shaped by one dominant player? That’s a serious question being raised by a group of ad tech companies, agencies…
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One of the most promising alternatives to the third-party tracking cookie is identity, enabling a plane where brands and publishers can sync up their audience data without data leakage or any of the other side effects of third-party cookies. But as publishers are integrating identity partners, there’s a gnawing voice in…
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From the concept of "financial incentives" in the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) to Andrew Yang’s Data Dividend Project, there has been an increased call for companies to compensate consumers for their data. Privacy expert Jessica B. Lee looks at the push for valuing consumer data, the risks of the…
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